
Senior IT Project Manager
WEP Clinical
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chiswick • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Establish and embed a pragmatic PMO framework, including project lifecycle, governance, standards, templates, controls, and reporting appropriate to the organisation’s size and maturity.
- Define and maintain consistent project methodologies, documentation, and tools to ensure transparency and effective delivery across the IT portfolio.
- Provide portfolio-level visibility, including prioritisation, dependency management, risk tracking, and executive reporting.
- Lead and deliver multiple concurrent IT initiatives end-to-end, ensuring outcomes are achieved on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Act as hands-on Project Manager for high-impact initiatives, including customer digital platforms, Office 365 rationalisation and enhancement, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation.
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, risk and issue registers, and communication plans.
- Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies to minimise delivery impacts.
- Partner with business leaders, IT teams, and third-party vendors to align requirements, priorities, and expectations.
- Facilitate project governance forums, including steering committees, status reporting, and decision-making processes.
- Support change management and ensure effective transition and handover to operations, while driving continuous improvement through lessons learned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline
- 5+ years’ experience delivering IT projects in a hands-on Project Manager or PMO role
- Proven experience establishing, operating, or maturing a PMO within a growing or transforming organisation
- Professional project management certification required or strongly preferred (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, or equivalent PMO/portfolio certification)
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise IT initiatives, including ERP implementations (such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central), digital platforms, collaboration tools, and infrastructure or telephony solutions
- Strong working knowledge of project and portfolio management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) with the ability to apply them pragmatically
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and organisational skills, with the ability to operate effectively at both delivery and executive levels
- Strong problem-solving capability, with a proven ability to manage ambiguity, risk, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
- Private healthcare insurance
- Long-term illness Cover
- Death in service cover
- Salary sacrifice pension
- Annual leave
- Paid maternity & paternity leave
- Volunteer day
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementPMO frameworkproject lifecyclerisk trackingbudget managementMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralOffice 365project methodologiesdocumentationchange management
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder engagementorganisational skillsproblem-solvingleadershipprioritisationdependency managementtransparencycontinuous improvementdecision-making
Certifications
PMPPRINCE2 PractitionerMSPPMO certificationportfolio certification