Junior Project Manager

Junior Project Manager

Full-Time 60750 - 74250 Β£ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
Michael Page International

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead IT projects from start to finish, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
  • Company: Join a rapidly growing leisure and tourism company in Woking.
  • Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work, and a strong benefits package.
  • Other info: Great career progression opportunities in a supportive environment.
  • Why this job: Make an impact in a dynamic industry while developing your project management skills.
  • Qualifications: Experience in delivering IT projects and strong stakeholder management skills.

The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 Β£ per year.

Rapidly growing business based in Woking is looking for a Junior Project Manager to join the team on a permanent basis. This role will require travel to the Woking office 1-2 days per week (flexible).

This role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of IT projects and change initiatives, from concept through to deployment, service transition and benefit realisation.

Job Description

Project Delivery

  • Own full lifecycle delivery of IT projects
  • Deliver to agreed time, cost and quality targets
  • Define scope, plan, budget and resources
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects

Planning & Governance

  • Develop business cases, plans, RAID logs and communication plans
  • Follow organisational governance frameworks
  • Provide status reporting and audit trail of decisions

Risk, Issue & Change Management

  • Manage risks and issues and escalate where required
  • Maintain RAID logs and lead reviews
  • Manage formal change control processes

Financial & Commercial Management

  • Manage budgets, forecasting and spend
  • Ensure financial governance compliance
  • Work with procurement and suppliers

Stakeholder Management

  • Engage stakeholders across IT and business
  • Communicate at all levels including senior leadership
  • Act as delivery point of contact

Business Change & Transition

  • Define as-is and to-be processes
  • Ensure business readiness and adoption
  • Manage transition into BAU

Benefits Management

  • Define and track benefits
  • Report benefit realisation

Resource Management

  • Build and manage project teams
  • Allocate and track work across teams

The Successful Applicant

  • Experience delivering IT projects end-to-end
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Matrix delivery experience
  • Supplier management experience
  • Knowledge of Agile/Waterfall/DevOps
  • Commercial awareness
  • Strong communication skills

What's on Offer

A competitive salary with hybrid working arrangements. Strong wider benefits package available, as well as great career progression opportunities.

Junior Project Manager employer: Michael Page International

Michael Page is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Leeds that fosters professional growth and development. With a strong focus on mentoring and team collaboration, employees benefit from hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary package, including performance-based bonuses. Joining this multinational organisation means being part of a high-growth team dedicated to delivering exceptional tax compliance services across diverse sectors.

Michael Page International

Contact Details:

Michael Page International Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Junior Project Manager

Project Delivery
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Issue Management
Change Management
Financial Management
Agile Methodologies