Project Manager

Hybrid – Prague (2 days per week)

We’re partnering with a globally recognised consultancy that specialises in strategic, HR, financial, and procurement transformation. Following continued growth and a strong project pipeline, they’re looking for a Project Manager to join their expanding team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage end to end project delivery across a range of business and technology initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Develop, maintain and actively manage detailed project plans, milestones, resource schedules and delivery timelines in collaboration with business and technology teams.
• Drive project maturity and continuous improvement by implementing consistent project management standards, governance and delivery frameworks across programmes of work.
• Manage project scope effectively, ensuring requirements, priorities and changes are clearly documented, assessed and controlled through agreed governance processes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the organisation, ensuring effective communication, engagement and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate collaboration across cross functional teams, working closely with colleagues across operational, technical and business functions to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Provide regular project reporting and updates to stakeholders and senior leadership, including progress against milestones, key decisions, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Own and maintain core project governance documentation including Project Plans, RAID Logs, Highlight Reports and Lessons Learned documentation.
• Identify, manage and proactively mitigate project risks and issues, escalating where appropriate to ensure delivery remains on track.
• Lead project meetings, workshops and steering groups, ensuring actions and decisions are clearly documented and tracked through to completion.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement across the wider delivery and operational teams.
• Contribute to the development and sharing of best practices, standards and ways of working to improve overall project delivery capability and organisational maturity.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging and influencing colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies and competing priorities effectively.
• Demonstrable experience driving project governance, delivery maturity and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience working collaboratively across cross functional teams and building strong working relationships.
• Knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project delivery methodologies.
• Relevant Project Management qualifications such as PRINCE2, Agile, PMP or equivalent are desirable.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience providing updates to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Ability to identify, assess and proactively manage risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience working with project management and collaboration tools
• Results driven with a proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Professional, adaptable and able to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

If you're a Project Manager looking to take the next step in your career and work on impactful transformation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to find out more.