Contract: ContractLocation: London, WaterlooPay: CompetitiveConsultant: Alfie LawSenior IT Project Manager : AI use cases in Energy TradingAn exciting opportunity for an AI Project Manager to join this global Energy Trading company on a long-term contract basis. The Hiring Manager is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager with recent, hands-on experience delivering AI use cases within complex trading, investment banking, financial services or energy environments. The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of complex, high-risk and strategically important technology projects that support business objectives and digital transformation goals.
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The role requires end-to-end accountability for project delivery, ensuring clear governance, effective stakeholder engagement, financial control and successful business outcomes.
The successful candidate will establish clarity across scope, schedule, costs, dependencies and risks, while leading multidisciplinary teams through the full project lifecycle.
They will work closely with senior business sponsors, technology teams and suppliers, using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
Key Responsibilities:– Lead projects from initiation through planning, execution, transition and closure, ensuring objectives, deliverables, milestones and success measures are clearly defined and achieved.– Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, budget, quality, dependencies and operational readiness activities.– Ensure plans remain realistic and aligned to delivery capacity.– Manage project finances, including forecasting, budget control, variance analysis and corrective actions.– Govern scope and change requests to ensure impacts on cost, schedule, value and resources are fully understood before decisions are made.– Establish effective governance, reporting and escalation processes.– Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, ensuring timely mitigation and resolution.– Maintain compliance with relevant technology, security, architecture and assurance requirements.– Build strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders and delivery teams.– Provide transparent executive reporting on progress, risks, financial status and delivery confidence, enabling informed decision-making.– Manage suppliers and third-party delivery partners where required, ensuring agreed commitments, quality standards and outcomes are achieved.– Coordinate activities across multiple teams and functions to resolve conflicts and delivery constraints.– Ensure business readiness, service transition, user adoption and support arrangements are planned and executed effectively.– Confirm benefits are defined, measurable and linked to delivered outcomes.– Complete project closure activities, including acceptance, handover, lessons learned and residual risk management.
Essential Skills and Experience:– Extensive experience delivering large-scale technology projects with significant business impact and senior stakeholder visibility– Strong project planning, governance, financial management, risk management and change control expertise– Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across business and technology functions, manage competing priorities and influence stakeholders at all levels– Experience working with Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches and selecting the most appropriate method for successful outcomes– Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide clear recommendations and challenge constructively in complex environmentsPreferred Qualifications:– PMP, MSP, PgMP or equivalent project management certification.
Agile qualifications and experience– Background in large global organisations, regulated industries, energy or financial services– Experience with supplier management and tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps and Jira– Ideally, candidates will bring experience working within logistics or commercial operations environments– Experience delivering projects across areas such as distribution operations, terminals, supply chain, transportation, contracts management/confirmations or other operationally complex environments would be particularly valuable– Project Governance, Project Assurance & Compliance, Project Planning & TrackingWith a focus within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and Commodities, we offer a transparent Recruitment Service that has proven to be reliable and effective for over 40 years.
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