At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting projects to improve housing services and customer outcomes.
- Company: Join one of the UK's largest housing groups dedicated to affordable living.
- Benefits: Flexible working, professional development, and a rewarding experience.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in communities while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: Project management experience and a passion for driving change.
We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing. We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes. If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive. Work for Orbit. Believe in people.
Orbit are delighted to be recruiting for 2 Project Managers to join us on a fixed term basis, until October 2027. As a Project Manager, you will be coming into a fast-paced environment to play a key role in delivering a strategic property programme that will drive operational excellence, improve customer outcomes, and modernise our services. The successful individuals will have demonstrable experience delivering projects encompassing business change, operational excellence and IT.
Working across business and technology teams, you will lead the planning and delivery of complex projects, ensuring that changes to systems, processes, and ways of working are successfully embedded across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence significant transformation activity, working with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver sustainable business benefits and maximise the value of our investment in property and digital services. This role is part of Technology & Information where you'll help us give colleagues the infrastructure, support and insight they need to be brilliant.
Given this is a projects role, you will need to be fully flexible to work in an agile format, which will include travel to the Warwickshire offices (Coventry & Stratford upon Avon) in line with business need. This can fluctuate week on week.
What you’ll achieve:
- To ensure that technology purchases meet business needs, represent value for money and contracts/suppliers are well managed.
- Facilitating the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables and benefits.
- To proactively and collaboratively work with key stakeholders to develop business requirements, translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans.
- Defining project tasks, resource requirements & development of project plans/timelines.
- Assemble and co-ordinate project staff & manage project resource & planning allocation.
- Planning and scheduling project timelines.
- Manage virtual project team.
- Work with the technical architect to ensure the technical elements of the project are assessed, planned and delivered to time and budget.
What you’ll bring:
- Project management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management & business analysis.
- Proven experience of managing complex data migration, integration and desktop projects and programmes.
- Proven experience in managing medium to large projects/programmes.
- Proven experience of working within an organisation's technical change management processes and presenting to relevant governance forums e.g. Change Advisory Board (CAB).
Why Orbit?
Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense. Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us:
- A rewarding experience that works for you: We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work-life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
- A place to progress: From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow. For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills.
- A purpose to feel proud of: We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.
How we hire: We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair: Online application, Interview(s), Decision and offer. We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.
Project Manager - Change & IT employer: Orbit Group
At Orbit, we are committed to creating a rewarding work environment that prioritises employee wellbeing and professional growth. As a leading housing group, we offer flexible working opportunities and comprehensive training programmes, ensuring that every team member can thrive while making a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Join us to be part of a values-driven organisation where your contributions help shape an inclusive digital experience for over 100,000 customers.
