Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LRQA is a leading global assurance partner that helps clients manage risk and build safer, more sustainable businesses. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of products or workstreams within the Digital Transformation programme, ensuring that delivery is aligned with programme priorities and product goals.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of one or more products or workstreams within the programme, to agreed scope, time, cost and quality
- Plan and run the squads’ delivery, including sprint planning, backlog flow, release planning and delivery commitments, working with Product and the development teams
- Translate programme priorities and product goals into clear delivery plans, with milestones, dependencies and measurable outcomes
- Drive momentum and accountability across multi-disciplinary squads (Product, Business Analysis, developers, QA and specialist roles), keeping them aligned and removing impediments
- Run the delivery cadence and team ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives) and ensure they remain effective
- Manage cross-squad and cross-product dependencies, keeping a clear view of the critical path and delivery constraints
- Own the delivery-level RAID position, surfacing risks, issues and dependencies early and managing them transparently
- Anticipate issues and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum
- Manage change to scope and plan pragmatically, protecting outcomes and value
- Provide clear, decision-oriented delivery updates focused on value, risk and confidence, not activity
- Feed the programme’s governance, contributing to programme reporting, steering packs and milestone reviews with clear, traceable status
- Work within the programme’s governance and the VMO’s delivery standards, applying them proportionately
- Escalate to the Programme Lead promptly, with clear options and a recommended course of action
- Support budget and forecast management for the products or workstreams, tracking spend against plan and raising financial pressures early with the Programme Lead, who typically owns the budget
- Take direct responsibility for budget and forecast on smaller, self-contained projects
- Maintain a clear view of squad capacity and capability, highlighting constraints and supporting prioritisation and trade-off decisions
- Manage delivery through internal squads and, where used, external suppliers, holding them to plan and quality
- Keep delivery aligned to business value and measurable outcomes, tracking when benefits are expected to be realised and highlighting slippage
- Work with product, service owners and business teams so that new capabilities are adopted and deliver measurable benefit
- Support release, change and communication activity to ready teams and users for adoption
- Promote an outcome-focused delivery culture across the squads, measuring progress by value achieved
- Embed agile ways of working, retrospectives and feedback loops to improve delivery quality and predictability
- Contribute to the maturity of delivery practice across the programme and wider portfolio, sharing lessons learned and effective practice
- Work closely with the Programme Lead, Product, Business Analysis, Development, the Enterprise Architect and Solution Architects, and Infrastructure/DevOps to turn priorities into delivered outcomes
- Build trusted relationships across business, technology and delivery teams, providing a clear link between strategy, delivery and operations
Skills
- Delivery leadership: proven experience leading end-to-end delivery of complex digital or software products and workstreams in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Agile and product-led delivery: strong, hands-on experience running delivery in agile, product-led squads (Scrum or Kanban), balancing agile flexibility with programme-level control
- Change management: Demonstrated ability to drive behavioral and process change within delivery teams, including gaining buy-in from teams not directly under their authority
- Project and programme discipline: solid grounding in structured delivery, with experience or certification in recognised approaches (for example PRINCE2, MSP, PMI or Agile equivalents), applied proportionately
- Dependencies and risk: managing dependencies, sequencing, risk and change across concurrent workstreams and teams
- Financial and commercial awareness: managing delivery budgets, forecast and trade-offs, and holding suppliers to plan and quality
- Stakeholder management: excellent communication and influencing, able to distil complexity into clarity for senior stakeholders and to work across business, technology and delivery teams
- Working within a programme: comfortable operating within programme governance and delivery standards set by others, and contributing to their improvement
- A hands-on delivery leader who consistently delivers to plan
- Enables and motivates squads, leading through influence rather than authority
- Balances pace with discipline, and agility with programme-level control
- Diligent, curious and constructively challenging, focused on outcomes over process
- A clear communicator across business, technology and delivery audiences
- Works well within the programme's direction and standards, and helps improve them
- Domain awareness: a good understanding of modern software delivery and, ideally, of assurance, certification or related digital platforms (advantageous)
Benefits
- Remote
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