About the Role
Expleo is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee day-to-day project delivery, coordinating multiple workstreams and stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes within agreed timelines, budgets, and governance standards. This role involves driving delivery discipline, managing risks, dependencies, and milestones, overseeing project finances, and ensuring effective governance and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Create, own, and maintain detailed delivery plans.
- Ensure alignment across all workstreams and dependencies.
- Coordinate delivery activities across internal teams, external suppliers, and senior stakeholders.
- Drive progress against key milestones.
- Establish and maintain effective governance arrangements.
- Prepare programme board papers, reporting packs, decision logs, and escalation materials.
- Support delivery governance processes and decision-making forums.
- Monitor risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and actions.
- Ensure timely escalation and resolution.
- Maintain delivery visibility across all workstreams.
- Track project progress, deliverables, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Provide accurate reporting and forecasting.
- Support effective financial oversight and control.
- Facilitate project board meetings, working groups, and stakeholder meetings.
- Ensure clear outcomes, accountability, and follow-through.
- Build effective working relationships across stakeholders.
- Produce concise and effective reporting for senior leadership.
- Provide accurate status updates and delivery insights.
- Support informed decision-making through regular reporting.
- Ensure delivery remains aligned with agreed project outcomes.
- Work closely with programme leadership and workstream leads to drive pace, coordination, and successful delivery.
Requirements
- A relevant project management qualification is required (e.g., PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ, or MAPM).
- Agile or Scrum certification is desirable (e.g., PSM, CSM, or SAFe Agilist).
- Proven ability to manage budgets, resource plans, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis.
- Strong expertise in project planning, governance, reporting, risk management, issue management, and dependency management.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to coach colleagues in project frameworks and delivery practices.
- Experience driving delivery across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Experience preparing senior governance materials, including programme board papers and management reporting.
- Proven project management experience delivering complex, multi-workstream projects or programmes.
- Experience delivering regulatory change programmes.
- Experience supporting policy, governance, or business change initiatives.
Skills
- Project planning
- Governance
- Reporting
- Risk management
- Issue management
- Dependency management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Influencing
- Coaching
- Budget management
- Resource planning
- Forecasting
- Financial reporting
- Variance analysis
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ, or MAPM)
- Agile or Scrum certification desirable (e.g., PSM, CSM, or SAFe Agilist)
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment
- Opportunities to expand skills and participate in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy for accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
About the Company
- Expleo is a company that stands shoulder to shoulder with clients and peers.
- Expleo empowers technology professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
- Expleo operates with a 'one team' approach, encouraging big thinking and challenging the status quo.
- Expleo is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, Expleo has committed to ensuring the recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria, anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments, and supporting existing employees with disabilities.
- Expleo is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
- Expleo treats everyone fairly and equitably across the organization, including providing additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.
