Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager Job Description

Department
:
Delivery Services

Reports To
:
Head of Projects

Work Location: Chorley - Hybrid

Hours of Work: 37.5

Position Type: Full-Time

Rate Type
:
Salary

Grade
: 5

We are an innovative and market-leading software & services company based in Chorley serving clients in the utility sector ranging from new entrants to large existing suppliers. We deliver sophisticated software solutions and managed services in a Private Cloud infrastructure, servicing both traditional and modern real-time, smart energy clients.

With this role you will be working on our CRM & Billing solution which features a customer-driven proactive roadmap that
introduces innovation for the billing of new digital energy services across the utilities market.

We operate a Hybrid working policy so you will be able to flex between working in the office and your home location to carry out this role, however during your initial training period the need to be in office with other team members will be essential. Our UK office is based in Chorley, which is where you will be based.

Our Project Management Team Vision is for our customers to feel that they are in safe hands and have experienced a smooth delivery, with value for money, and for our business to feel that we deliver change in a controlled, well communicated, and collaborative manner.

Our mission is to have a Project Management Team where:

• Everyone is equally valued and understands their contribution,
• We all feel we're driving forward the best versions of ourselves,
• We feel equipped to do our jobs and understand why it’s important,
• We feel empowered to do our best,
• We utilise best practices with our tools and our processes,
• We put the customer at the heart of what we do,
• We understand the value of continuous improvement and are always questioning 'could we do better?’

As a Senior Project Manager at ESG, you will be responsible for the delivery of projects and programmes, from customer facing projects, to large scale internal and industry driven change programmes.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for delivering to the agreed targets set at the outset, alongside providing a quality client-centric onboarding experience, whilst ensuring a timely and focused handover of projects to Operations.

As a Senior role, you will also be expected to support, mentor and potentially line manage other Project Managers within the team, as well as supporting activities to continuously develop the team.

While this position is full‑time, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns that accommodate individual needs. If you require flexibility in your work schedule, please let us know during the application process, and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

As a Senior Project Manager at ESG you will be responsible for:

• Delivering projects within the ESG projects portfolio within the agreed Time/Cost/Quality/Scope targets with a focus on ensuring the right level of governance needed to ensure a smooth and successful delivery
• Ensure projects are delivered efficiently and effectively, with a focus on timely project closure alongside a safe and smooth handover to BAU
• Managing a diverse team across the organisation and managing a variety of internal stakeholders across the company aligning decisions and updates throughout delivery.
• Delivering detailed business cases, benefits review and return on investment plans for initiated projects and throughout the lifecycle to feed in to key decision making forums.
• Comfortable with the ambiguity associated with innovative change, confident facilitating complex and technical workshops and discussions throughout, from project definition to unforeseen issue resolution.
• Able to define and deliver first of type projects/ work streams, including creating the supporting governance and associated artefacts.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of projects within your remit including the coordination of all processes and teams involved in onboarding, integrating, and migrating Clients onto ESG products and services, utilising a SaaS- based delivery model, alongside tailored interactions where appropriate
• Engage with…