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About the Role
Project management at RDG involves balancing delivery with inspirational leadership and strong working relationships. As a Senior Project Manager, you will collaborate across project teams, operational teams, and stakeholders to deliver projects on time, within scope, and on budget, while effectively managing risks and dependencies using project management tools, techniques, and people skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed project plans, including setting milestones and adhering to deadlines.
- Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Ensure work is completed to the right standard and adapt to specific project needs.
- Lead and motivate project teams.
- Coordinate with multiple work streams and teams.
- Ensure projects remain on time and within budget.
- Measure project performance and report progress.
- Manage project changes as necessary.
- Ensure project outcomes and benefits are delivered.
- Work according to the RDG Project Delivery Framework.
Requirements
- Experience working as a Senior Project Manager or in a similar role.
- Strong aptitude for the role and solid relevant knowledge of the subject matter.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and coordinating with internal functions (e.g., QA, service delivery).
- Experience delivering complex technical projects in line with a recognized delivery lifecycle.
- Experience managing project scope, including benefits management, change control, configuration management, change management, and requirements management.
- Experience with project scheduling (resource and time).
- Experience creating projects from problem statements and articulating scope.
- Project budget and cost control experience.
- Experience managing risk, understanding risk context, and demonstrating a range of risk techniques.
- Experience dealing with external resources, including third-party contracts and procurement.
- Solid understanding of a project business case and ability to translate it into successful delivery.
- Experience in project planning, reporting, and stakeholder management.
- Experience and qualifications in standard project methodologies (e.g., Prince, Agile, Scrum).
- Experience using project tools such as Jira, Confluence, and MS Project/Smartsheet.
- Experience managing cloud and platform implementations is highly desirable.
Skills
- Project management tools and techniques
- People skills
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Budget and cost control
- Project planning
- Reporting
- Prince
- Agile
- Scrum
- Jira
- Confluence
- MS Project
- Smartsheet
Work Type
- 12 month FTC
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Hay salary grade: 17
Benefits
- 75% discount on rail travel (for work and leisure), plus international rail discounts
- 30 Days annual leave (plus buy/sell options and additional leave for key life events)
- Two Personal Development Days annually
- Interest-free Season Ticket Loan for commuting costs
- Enhanced family leave – 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and shared parental leave
- Pension scheme – up to 8.64% employer contribution
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance (Vitality PPP) and Health Cash Plan (Healthshield)
- Access to flexible benefits portal for retail discounts, shopping, dining, travel, and entertainment perks
- Flexible working arrangements
About the Company
- Rail Delivery Group (RDG) partners with Britain’s train operators to put customers at the heart of everything we do, delivering essential services and dedicated experts who keep the nation’s railway running efficiently.
- RDG exists to unify, challenge and change.
- RDG’s values, known as ASPIRE, are Accountability Support, Partnership, Inclusion, Respect and Excellence.
- Our values form an integral part of our recruitment, performance and recognition processes.