Project Manager, IT Project Manager, Project & Program Management

Project Manager

6 months

Location:
Hybrid (Wellingborough 2 days per week / remote 3 days)

Inside IR35 - Umbrella only

The Project Manager will be responsible for the successful planning, coordination, governance, and delivery of the Cost/Sell and Induct work streams within the Booker MyProduct Essentials (MPE) programme. The role will ensure alignment between Booker stakeholders, Atos business analysts, third-party development partners, and business SMEs to achieve agreed milestones, manage dependencies, and deliver business value.

• Lead day-to-day delivery of the Cost/Sell and Induct work streams.
• Develop and maintain integrated plans, milestones, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Coordinate activities across Booker stakeholders, Atos consultants, business analysts, product owners, and development partners.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, ensuring timely escalation where required.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering meetings, workshops, and project reviews.
• Track progress against delivery objectives and ensure work streams remain on schedule and within budget.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and communication across business and technology teams.
• Ensure delivery readiness, quality assurance, and successful transition into business operations.
• Support identification and management of change requests, scope impacts, and commercial considerations.

• Minimum of 8 years experience as Project Manager which needs to include collating requirements, managing third party development teams using agile, and co-ordinating UAT for changes to websites.
• Proven experience delivering business transformation or technology projects preferably in a wholesale business .
• Strong project governance, planning, risk management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams, suppliers, and senior stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.

• Delivery of Cost/Sell and Induct milestones to agreed schedule.
• Effective management of risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Positive stakeholder feedback from Booker and Atos teams.
• Successful adoption of delivered capabilities by business users.