IT Project Manager in Coventry

IT Project Manager 📍 Location: Coventry (Hybrid: typically 2-3 days in-office, flexible remote balance) 💼 Contract: Permanent 💰 Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum 🏢 About Us Looking to advance your career with an industry-leading, progressive organisation delivering tier-one solutions across both public and private sectors? 🏗️🇬🇧 We pride ourselves on driving impactful, tech-enabled outcomes for our teams, partners, and clients within a forward-thinking, collaborative culture. 🌟 The Opportunity We have an exceptional opening for a versatile, proactive IT Project Manager to join our established IT delivery team at our Coventry head office. In this role, you will lead mid-to-large scale technical programmes and projects end-to-end. You'll partner closely with a talented, multidisciplinary group of IT professionals-including Business Analysts, Project Managers, Engineers, and Developers-while actively guiding and mentoring fellow team members. We are looking for a true generalist IT Project Manager who is pragmatic, isn't afraid to "roll up their sleeves," and brings positive energy and strong leadership to a hard-working, fun environment! 🎉🤝 🎯 Key Responsibilities 🧭 Delivery Leadership & Mentorship: Guide, advise, and support peer PMs and technical teams across medium to large-scale initiatives. 🤝 High-Touch Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with business leaders, cross-functional teams, and external technology vendors. 💼 Business Cases & Scoping: Collaborate with stakeholders to craft solid project briefs, PIDs, scopes, budget proposals, and tangible benefit tracking. 📊 Governance & PMO Health: Drive projects through established PMO frameworks, producing clear governance documentation and presenting transparent project health reporting to boards. 🛠️ Delivery Methodologies: Confidently select and execute the right framework (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid) across the entire project lifecycle. 📅 Planning & Resourcing: Manage schedules, critical paths, dependency maps, and resource allocations to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery. 🛡️ Risk & Change Control: Proactively identify project risks, unblock delivery bottlenecks, and manage change requests across scope, schedule, and spend. 🧪 Testing & Handover: Oversee testing plans, quality gates, and sign-offs to guarantee a smooth transition into live operational support. 🏁 Continuous Improvement: Facilitate post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned sessions to continuously improve delivery playbooks. 🔍 What We're Looking For ⏳ 5+ Years of PM Experience: Proven track record delivering mid-to-large scale IT, technology, and business improvement projects end-to-end. 🌐 Open Industry Background: We welcome talent from any sector-financial services, retail, tech, logistics, manufacturing, or built environment. 🧠 Broad Technical Acumen: Comfortable navigating software delivery, infrastructure, applications, and general systems integration alongside technical specialists and BAs. 📜 Recognised PM Credentials: Certified in PRINCE2, APM, or equivalent project delivery methodologies. 🛠️ Tool Proficiency: Solid experience working with Microsoft Project, Planner, Azure DevOps, or similar work-management tools. 👥 Pragmatic, Collaborative Style: A roll-up-your-sleeves mentality, calm composure under pressure, and a natural ability to connect with and motivate teams. 🗣️ Stakeholder Influence: Polished, persuasive communicator capable of translating technical concepts into business value. 💡 Bonus / Nice-to-Haves: Exposure to the Data & AI landscape, or prior experience with Common Data Environments (CDE) and infrastructure projects (desirable, but not mandatory). 🗓️ Interview Process 💻 Format: 100% Virtual / Remote video call. 📅 Timeline: Interviews commencing from 11th November. ⏱️ Stage 1 (1 hour): Technical & competency-based interview focusing on your IT project delivery experience and methodology. ☕ Stage 2 (30 mins): Informal conversation with a senior leader to discuss culture, team fit, and overall vision. Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business