Senior Project Manager

Do you get excited about balancing hands-on project delivery with broader programme oversight, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and quality across initiatives? Cloud Direct is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, high-impact deployment and migration projects. This role also includes programme management responsibilities, overseeing a portfolio of related projects to ensure strategic alignment with organisational objectives. The Senior Project Manager will drive successful outcomes through effective planning, execution, and stakeholder collaboration.

What you'll do:

• Project Delivery: Plan, manage, and deliver large-scale projects from initiation to closure, ensuring completion on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Create and review project plans whilst retaining a highly flexible approach to change.
• Programme Oversight: Coordinate and monitor a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, resource optimisation, and risk mitigation across the programme.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including clients, team members, and senior leadership, ensuring clear communication and expectation management.
• Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues at both project and programme levels, implementing proactive solutions to maintain momentum.
• Resource Allocation: Oversee resource planning and allocation across projects, ensuring efficient use of personnel, budget, and tools.
• Governance and Reporting: Establish robust governance frameworks and provide regular updates to senior management on progress, risks, and outcomes. Enforce and evolve best practices and internal processes for documentation and delivery.
• Team Leadership: Mentor and guide project teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture while supporting professional development. Collaborate with Solution Architects, Consultants and your Practice Area colleagues to deliver enterprise-level Azure Public Cloud, Data & AI and Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive process improvements and adopt best practices in project and programme management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, PMI).
• Financial Oversight: Manage project and programme budgets, ensuring cost control and financial accountability.
• Compliance: Ensure all projects and programme activities comply with organisational policies, UK regulations, and industry standards.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field.
• A Master’s degree or professional certifications (e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, AgilePM or PgMP) are highly desirable.
• 10+ years of project management experience, including at least 3 years in a senior project management or programme management role.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects with budgets exceeding £250k.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams.
• Professional background in IT consulting, technology, or solutions delivery.
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience managing senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to align projects and programmes with organisational goals.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to risk management.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio.

What we offer:

• Responsible Time Off (uncapped annual leave)
• Fitness Cash Contribution
• Pension Contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection
• Birthday lunches, a Fun Fund, and more

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply!