Project Manager - (Manchester/ Preston)

Key Responsibilities:

1. Internal Blocker Removal & Delivery Enablement (Core Focus)

• Actively identify and remove internal blockers impacting delivery:
• data availability and quality
• ownership ambiguity
• business decisions not being made
• Work proactively with constrained business teams to:
• prioritise inputs required for delivery
• extract knowledge efficiently
• reduce reliance on informal / tacit processes
• Ensure that internal dependencies do not delay project progress

1. Business Engagement & Knowledge Capture

• Engage internal SP ENW teams to:
• Capture business priorities and communicate
• Facilitate structured workshop sessions
• Support business teams in transitioning to repeatable processes

1. Supplier Accountability (Partnership Model)

• Work alongside the supplier to:
• ensure clarity on inputs, outputs and expectations
• maintain alignment on delivery priorities
• Hold the supplier accountable for:
• agreed milestones
• quality and usability of outputs
• Challenge where necessary, but operate within a constructive, partnership-based relationship

1. Delivery Coordination & Clarity

• Maintain a clear, integrated view of:
• delivery plan using Microsoft Project
• dependencies
• risks and issues
• finances
• Ensure that:
• required inputs are defined and owned
• output expectations are explicit and testable
• Drive clarity where ambiguity exists across business teams

1. Governance & Reporting

• Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, including leading steering group and boards
• Ensure governance supports:
• rapid decision-making
• visibility of blockers

Person Specification:

Essential Experience

• Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT / data programmes
• Demonstrated ability to unblock delivery in resource-constrained environments
• Experience working closely with third-party delivery partners
• Strong experience of business change and process definition
• Strong financial management
• Proven ability to operate in environments with:
• ambiguity
• incomplete requirements
• evolving scope

Critical Behaviours

• Relentlessly proactive - does not wait for issues to escalate
• Comfortable chasing and challenging across all levels of the organisation
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused - prioritises progress over perfection
• Strong facilitator - can extract clarity from vague or tacit knowledge
• Resilient and persistent - able to navigate slow-moving or resource-constrained environments

Desirable

• Experience in Network related projects
• Utilities / infrastructure / engineering domain experience
• Exposure to data integration or data product delivery

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.