Senior Project Manager - Transformation

We're seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact transformation projects. Your role will involve turning proposals into actionable plans and balancing structured project management with flexible and adaptive approaches to deliver impactful results. Using your experience, you'll be crucial in challenging the status quo and exploring new ways to deliver projects safely and effectively. We embrace flexible working arrangements, combining remote and office-based work to help us meet our goals. We would love to hear from you if you're ready to lead and deliver in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment. What You'll Do:

• Drive Project Delivery: Take ownership of projects from start to finish, aligning them with business goals, staying on time and budget, and meeting high-quality standards.
• Developing Plans: Create comprehensive project plans that adapt to changing requirements while balancing scope, resources, timelines, and budgets.
• Build Strong Teams: Mobilise teams, encourage collaboration across different functions and maintain engagement and momentum throughout the project.
• Manage Risks and Issues: Identify and address risks and obstacles early, adjusting plans to keep projects on track.
• Focus on Results: Stay committed to achieving project outcomes by doing what's needed to drive success, while seeking ways to improve project delivery.
• Manage Seamless Transitions: Ensure a smooth handover of project outputs to business-as
About You At NPL, we thrive on collaboration, respect, and a shared commitment to doing better for ourselves, our customers, and the world. We believe in challenging the status quo to make meaningful improvements but also know when to keep things simple. You'll fit right in here if you enjoy taking initiative, learning from others, and pushing boundaries without overcomplicating. Together, we're helping make the impossible possible.


• Proven Project Leadership: Extensive experience managing complex projects, with a track record of delivering on time, within scope, and on budget, even when faced with challenges.
• Adaptive Problem-Solver: Embraces challenges and adjusts to changing priorities, making quick and practical decisions that maintain progress and deliver value.
• Skilled Communicator: Engages effectively with diverse stakeholders, actively welcoming feedback to build robust and cohesive alignment across business and IT teams.
• Results-Oriented: Focused on achieving practical and impactful outcomes efficiently, with an eye on continuous improvement.
• Technical Competence: Proficient in various project management tools and approaches, applying structured or adaptive techniques as necessary to meet the needs of both business and IT projects and governance requirements.
• Change Management Expertise: Skilled at guiding teams through change, supporting sustainable results and aligning business and IT objectives., Agile or Iterative Project Experience: Real-world application of agile or iterative methodologies and project cycles.
• Sector Knowledge: Experience in research, academic, public sector, or regulated environments, with an understanding of their unique challenges.
• Capability Improvement Experience: Experience fostering an environment where teams can experiment and learn from setbacks, with familiarity with Lean or other improvement approaches and their application to project management practices.
  
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NPL and DSIT have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. At NPL, we believe our success is a result of the diversity and talent of our people. We strive to nurture and respect individuals to ensure everyone feels valued by treating everyone on the basis of their own individual merits and abilities regardless of their own or perceived identity, as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we ensure we're creating an environment where all our colleagues feel supported and welcome. More about this on our Diversity & Inclusion page. We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Flexible working and social activities are embedded in our culture to create a positive work-life balance, along with a broad range of rewards, benefits and recognition. Our values are at the heart of what we do, and they shape the way we interact, develop our people and celebrate success. To ensure everyone has an equal chance, we're always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss, please contact us.