Project Manager - (Manchester/ Preston)

Reference: DC_BPM_0708_1786111484

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Internal Blocker Removal & Delivery Enablement (Core Focus)
  • Actively identify and remove internal blockers impacting delivery:
    • data availability and quality
    • ownership ambiguity
    • business decisions not being made
  • Work proactively with constrained business teams to:
    • prioritise inputs required for delivery
    • extract knowledge efficiently
    • reduce reliance on informal / tacit processes
  • Ensure that internal dependencies do not delay project progress

  1. Business Engagement & Knowledge Capture
  • Engage internal SP ENW teams to:
    • Capture business priorities and communicate
  • Facilitate structured workshop sessions
  • Support business teams in transitioning to repeatable processes

  1. Supplier Accountability (Partnership Model)
  • Work alongside the supplier to:
    • ensure clarity on inputs, outputs and expectations
    • maintain alignment on delivery priorities
  • Hold the supplier accountable for:
    • agreed milestones
    • quality and usability of outputs
  • Challenge where necessary, but operate within a constructive, partnership-based relationship

  1. Delivery Coordination & Clarity
  • Maintain a clear, integrated view of:
    • delivery plan using Microsoft Project
    • dependencies
    • risks and issues
    • finances
  • Ensure that:
    • required inputs are defined and owned
    • output expectations are explicit and testable
  • Drive clarity where ambiguity exists across business teams

  1. Governance & Reporting
  • Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, including leading steering group and boards
  • Ensure governance supports:
    • rapid decision-making
    • visibility of blockers

Person Specification:

Essential Experience

  • Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT / data programmes
  • Demonstrated ability to unblock delivery in resource-constrained environments
  • Experience working closely with third-party delivery partners
  • Strong experience of business change and process definition
  • Strong financial management
  • Proven ability to operate in environments with:
    • ambiguity
    • incomplete requirements
    • evolving scope

Critical Behaviours

  • Relentlessly proactive - does not wait for issues to escalate
  • Comfortable chasing and challenging across all levels of the organisation
  • Pragmatic and delivery-focused - prioritises progress over perfection
  • Strong facilitator - can extract clarity from vague or tacit knowledge
  • Resilient and persistent - able to navigate slow-moving or resource-constrained environments

Desirable

  • Experience in Network related projects
  • Utilities / infrastructure / engineering domain experience
  • Exposure to data integration or data product delivery

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

£400.00 - £401.00
Per day
GBP400 - GBP401 per day
Added 07/08/2026
Reference: DC_BPM_0708_1786111484

Project Manager - (Manchester/ Preston)

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Contract Project Management

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