Technical Project Manager - London/Bristol - 12 month FTC

Responsibilities

•  Lead the end-to-end delivery of technology projects and transformation initiatives. 
•  Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, and delivery roadmaps. 
•  Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, budget, quality standards, and timelines. 
•  Manage project governance, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder communications. 
•  Identify and manage project dependencies, critical path activities, and change requests. 

•  Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming. 
•  Support prioritisation of workstreams and manage delivery capacity across teams. 
•  Track project progress and proactively intervene to resolve issues impacting delivery. 
•  Maintain lesson-learned logs and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. 
•  Ensure consistent application of project management standards and best practices. 

•  Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID). 
•  Escalate risks and delivery concerns appropriately to ensure timely resolution. 
•  Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, technical teams, operational teams, and third-party vendors. 
•  Translate complex technical information into clear business-focused updates. 

•  Collaborate with the Portfolio Delivery Lead to support portfolio planning, governance, and reporting. 
•  Contribute to technology risk management and portfolio-level oversight. 
•  Drive standardisation and consistency across project delivery practices. 
•  Support resource planning by identifying capacity constraints and delivery efficiencies. 
•  Deputise for the Portfolio Delivery Lead when required. 

•  Mentor and support junior team members and third-party resources where appropriate. 
•  Promote a culture of quality, accountability, and delivery excellence. 
•  Identify opportunities to improve operational processes through automation, optimisation, and emerging technologies. 

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience delivering technology projects, digital transformation programmes, or process improvement initiatives. 
• Demonstrated success managing end-to-end technical project lifecycles. 
• Strong understanding of organisational change and transformation. 
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments and collaborating with technology, engineering, data, and product teams. 
• Ability to translate business requirements into functional and technical deliverables. 
• Strong experience managing project risks, dependencies, issues, and stakeholder communications. 
• Excellent organisational, planning, and prioritisation skills. 
• Experience producing high-quality project documentation, including, Project plans, RAID logs, Requirements etc  documentation Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and Monday.com. 
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accurate reporting and stakeholder visibility. 
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Equal Opportunities