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About the Role

Lead a company-wide File Management project to simplify how colleagues store, organize, find, and share files, supporting the transition to Microsoft 365 and Box.com. This role also offers the flexibility to support other strategic projects based on business needs.

Responsibilities

Lead and motivate a cross-functional project team, ensuring colleagues understand their responsibilities, priorities, and key milestones.
Take ownership of the full project lifecycle, from discovery and planning through to implementation, migration, and embedding new ways of working.
Develop and manage the overall project plan, coordinating business analysis, technical delivery, continuous improvement, communications, and training activity.
Manage project resources, schedules, dependencies, and financials, ensuring delivery remains on track.
Work closely with the Senior Business Analyst to translate discovery and stakeholder insights into practical project and migration plans.
Coordinate the transition from existing shared drives to Microsoft 365 and Box.com, working with technical teams and specialist SMEs as required.
Ensure the project considers both technical delivery and the people and process changes needed for successful adoption.
Manage project issues, risks, and change requests, identifying and escalating potential impacts and putting appropriate mitigations in place.
Provide clear reporting on milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues to project sponsors, leadership, and key stakeholders.
Build strong relationships with stakeholders across PRH and DK, setting and managing expectations throughout delivery.
Work with internal teams and external suppliers where required, including reviewing relevant statements of work (SOWs), specifications, and deliverables.
Ensure appropriate project governance is maintained and progress is measured against agreed success criteria.

Requirements

Strong project management experience, with a track record of taking complex projects from planning and discovery through to implementation and successful delivery.
Experience of managing file management, document management, or similar projects involving user data migration and changes to ways of working.
Confident leading delivery across business and technical teams, managing dependencies, and supporting successful adoption.
Experience of delivering projects involving significant business change, with an understanding of the people and process changes required alongside technical implementation.
Experience of leading cross-functional project teams and coordinating colleagues with different areas of expertise and responsibility.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to build relationships and manage expectations across different levels of an organisation.
Good knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project management frameworks, methodologies, and associated governance structures, including approaches such as PRINCE2 and Scrum.
Confidence communicating technical or complex information to non-technical audiences in a clear and accessible way.
Experience with the Microsoft Office digital suite, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
An understanding of technology delivery and the software development lifecycle, including areas such as requirements gathering, testing, deployment, and change management.
Experience of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Box.com, Nasuni, or other enterprise file/document management platforms.
Experience of delivering projects involving large-scale data or content migration.
Proficiency in MS Project or experience using a PPM tool with planning capabilities.
Experience of using JIRA and Confluence.
Experience working with external suppliers and technical SMEs.

Skills

File Management
Document Management
User Data Migration
Business Change Management
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Waterfall
Agile
PRINCE2
Scrum
Microsoft Office Suite
Outlook
Teams
SharePoint
OneDrive
Technology Delivery
Software Development Lifecycle
Requirements Gathering
Testing
Deployment
Change Management
Microsoft 365
Box.com
Nasuni
MS Project
PPM Tools
JIRA
Confluence

Location

Embassy Gardens, London

Work Type

Hybrid
12-month fixed term contract

Experience Level

Project Manager

Salary/Compensations

c.£70,000

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

About the Company

Penguin Random House UK is part of Penguin Random House Operations, which includes Technology, Facilities, and Distribution.
The Strategic Projects team helps PRH deliver transformational change against strategic priorities, working with departments across PRH and DK from initial discovery through to implementation.
We believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing [email protected].
Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, us to support your request.