Senior Project Manager

Role Description

The Senior Project Manager is a senior delivery role within the DSD/Universe programme, operating as a Delivery Manager inside agile, product-led squads. It is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of one or more products or workstreams, turning programme priorities and product goals into working software and realised outcomes.

• 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.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading end-to-end delivery of complex digital or software products and workstreams in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Strong, hands-on experience running delivery in agile, product-led squads (Scrum or Kanban), balancing agile flexibility with programme-level control.
• Demonstrated ability to drive behavioral and process change within delivery teams, including gaining buy-in from teams not directly under their authority.
• Solid grounding in structured delivery, with experience or certification in recognised approaches (for example PRINCE2, MSP, PMI or Agile equivalents), applied proportionately.
• Managing dependencies, sequencing, risk and change across concurrent workstreams and teams.
• Managing delivery budgets, forecast and trade-offs, and holding suppliers to plan and quality.
• Excellent communication and influencing, able to distil complexity into clarity for senior stakeholders and to work across business, technology and delivery teams.
• Comfortable operating within programme governance and delivery standards set by others, and contributing to their improvement.
• A good understanding of modern software delivery and, ideally, of assurance, certification or related digital platforms (advantageous).

Requirements

• 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.
• Provide clear, decision-oriented delivery updates focused on value, risk and confidence, not activity.
• Support budget and forecast management for the products or workstreams, tracking spend against plan and raising financial pressures early with the Programme Lead.
• Keep delivery aligned to business value and measurable outcomes, tracking when benefits are expected to be realised and highlighting slippage.
• Promote an outcome-focused delivery culture across the squads, measuring progress by value achieved.

Benefits

• Remote working opportunity.
• Opportunity to work on global projects.
• Engagement with a diverse range of teams and stakeholders.
• Focus on continuous improvement and agile methodologies.