Job Description

• Project Manager
• Hybrid working - minimum 2 days a week in Manchester
• 470 per day inside IR35

An exciting opportunity has come up to work as a Project Manager for one of our clients with an immediate start as the project is in flight. You will be managing the discovery and scoping phase for a new Content Management System to the place the current one for a marketing, recruitment and applications instance of a Customer Relationship Management system.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Working across the organisation to scope and deliver business change projects and programmes in support of the strategy, vision and operational priorities
• Leading the shaping of the initiative with key internal and external partners, ensuring clear strategic alignment through effectively consulting with key stakeholders
• Defining, implementing and managing governance structures for the project
• Ensuring risks and issues are identified and monitored. Seeking support and input from the programme sponsor and other stakeholders to ensure escalation where appropriate and that mitigations and issue resolutions are in place
• Developing resource plans and secures resources to deliver the project, assessing the best use of internal and external resource
• Delivering a high level of stakeholder satisfaction, by providing accurate and timely information to stakeholders and governance bodies to enable strategic decision-making

Main requirements for this role:

• Able to work on two separate but connected projects at once
• Experienced in agile working, and able to support the project team to work in an agile way
• Able to support the Product Owner to establish and prioritise their backlog as necessary
• Experienced in managing large technical projects including discovery phase - experience of CMS and CRM ideal but not essential
• No more than 10 days leave planned between July and end of September
• Able to start early July 2026