Project Manager - Business (Commercial and Technical) - Contract

SUMMARY:
Bachelor's degree Project Management Certification (PMP,CAPM, Agile, Prince2, etc) Minimum of 6 ye

POSITION INFO:

Resource Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Project Management Certification (PMP,CAPM, Agile, Prince2, etc)

Minimum of 6 years’ experience -

• Minimum 3-5 years managing projects for end to end delivery using PMBOK/PRINCE2 methodologies
• Experience in taking products to market (Go to market)
• Experience in Managing complex/cross-functional projects
• Agile Experience
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Good technical knowledge of IT project implementation, ML and AI project execution
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing.
• The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach

Individuals occupying the role of Project Manager are mandated to fulfil a minimum in-office attendance requirement of three (3) days per week

The Business Project Manager works across both commercial and technical domains, responsible for end-to-end project delivery within a complex, multi-workstream environment. This role requires balancing cross-functional project requirements, often integrating various departments and external partners.

Project Manager’s Reporting and Accountability: Reports to the Head of Portfolio Delivery and is responsible for achieving the project’s strategic objectives, ensuring alignment with both business and technical goals.

Leadership and Workstream Management: The Project Manager leads a cross-functional project team, often including specific Workstream Managers such as Commercial Stakeholders, Technical Delivery Partner, Testing Lead and Change Lead. This role requires coordinating these leaders to ensure synergy, alignment on goals, and cohesive progress across all areas.

The Project Manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, go to market, benefits tracking and closure of the project.

The project manager must have a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts, as well as more general management skills.

Key among the project manager's duties is the recognition that risk, issues, and scope changes that directly impacts the likelihood of success and that these risks, issues and scope changes must be both formally and informally managed throughout the lifecycle of the project.