This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working London (Wednesdays plus one other day (2 days ) a week in the office), 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays and a fantastic pension scheme offering 6% in year one and 11% after this.

Salary £73,000-£76,000 per annum

About the role

 About the role

You'll be our go-to person for taking projects from the very beginning right through to completion. You'll support our strategy by owning project delivery, always making things happen. Your mission is to get projects delivered successfully, on time and within budget. Day-to-day, you'll be leading teams across the business to make sure we achieve the results we need. This means you're managing everything from resources and schedules to finances, and keeping a sharp eye on issues, risks, and dependencies to ensure smooth delivery. You'll be talking to stakeholders, sharing updates on progress, risks, and issues. You'll also be influential, engaging with people at all levels, including our leaders, to drive project success and push forward our strategy. You'll work with the business to prepare for change, making sure project launches go smoothly and with minimal disruption to everyday work. Plus, you'll share your expertise by coaching and mentoring others on project management best practice, handle the necessary project documentation, and even help us improve our processes for delivering projects. It's a dynamic role where you need to be self-motivated, great at communication and stakeholder engagement, able to understand and communicate complex technical concepts clearly, and ready to adapt to change. You'll need to navigate through change with resilience and adaptability.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Leads teams to deliver project(s) from initiation to closure. This involves projects spanning one or more business units and ensuring the required outcomes/benefits are produced within specified time and cost constraints as defined in the business case. 
• Manages resources, schedules, financials, issues, risks and dependencies. This is done to ensure successful and on-time project delivery, with the ability to adapt to change. 
• Monitor and communicate project progress, risks, issues and dependencies to the project or programme governance group. 
• Influence stakeholders including Leadership Team (Executive) level to drive the successful delivery of projects and the business strategy. It also involves building strong relationships with colleagues to drive delivery and collaboration while holding people accountable for their deliverables. 
• Working with the business and Change Management resource to prepare for change. This includes ensuring projects are delivered with minimal disruption to Business As Usual (BAU) and maximum adoption of the change to support the realisation of benefits. 

About you:

• Project Management Experience: Substantial experience in project leadership and demonstrable management of complex and technical projects.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. 
• Experience working with Squads including Product teams. 
• Change Management Knowledge and Adaptability: Works with change management resources to prepare for change. The ability to adapt to change and competing demands with resilience and adaptability. 
• Problem Solving: Strong reputation for creativity, acute attention to detail, flexibility, versatility, and problem solving are required.
• Coaching and Best Practice Application: Experience of coaching the business on project management best practice and delivering projects using a framework based on best practice project management. 

The interview process for this role involves:-

• 45min first interview
• 1 hour second interview with a task provided in advance

Benefits

 We also have these benefits for you to consider: 

• 35 hour working week
• Generous 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays & Option to buy additional days
• Excellent pension scheme – when you pay in 3%, Which? pays in 6% (rising to 11% after one year of service.) 
• Discount site Pluxee which offers large %% off every day shopping and holidays 
• Annual Award (depending on employee and company performance)
• Healthcare insurance & Private medical insurance and opportunity to participate in Vitality rewards programme (at 6 months)
• A discretionary death in service benefit provision equivalent to six times your annual salary
• Free access to Which? member content and free access to Which? money & legal helplines 
• Free wills for all Which? employees, plus, partners of employees can make their will at cost price.
• Work from (almost) anywhere” for 4 weeks of the year policy

About Which?

We promote a great work-life balance (all our roles are now hybrid), offering flexible working options in addition to a full time working week (35 hours) e.g. part time or job shares where possible. If you wish to discuss any of these options, please contact the Resourcing team at resourcing@which.co.uk

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Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed and we reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received.