Senior Project Manager

About LRQA

LRQA is a leading global assurance partner. We help clients manage risk and build safer, more secure and more sustainable businesses through certification, inspection, cybersecurity and advisory services. Digital Transformation is modernising the technology, products and platforms that underpin these services, and predictable, outcome-led delivery is central to that effort.

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Reports to:

Programme Lead, DSD

Digital Transformation, LRQA

None; matrix leadership within delivery squads

Remote

Programme Lead (DSD);
Product;
Business Analysis;
Development;
Enterprise Architect and Solution Architects; IT Operations (Infrastructure & Dev Ops);
Testing/QA; other Delivery Leads and Programme Leads; VMO; business and service owners; vendors and partners

Global

New role; profile created July 2026

The Senior Project Manager is a senior delivery role within the DSD/Universe programme, operating as a Delivery Manager inside agile, product-led squads. It is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of one or more products or work streams, turning programme priorities and product goals into working software and realised outcomes.

The role runs delivery day to day: planning and running the squads’ work, maintaining delivery momentum, and managing dependencies, risk and change. It combines agile ways of working with the control and governance the programme requires, and measures progress by value delivered rather than activity completed.

This is a hands‑on, outcome‑driven role focused on enabling delivery teams rather than administering process. It reports to the Programme Lead, DSD, and works closely with Product, Business Analysis, Development, Architecture and Infrastructure/Dev Ops to deliver the programme’s priorities predictably and at pace.

• Own end‑to‑end delivery of one or more products or work streams within the programme, to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
• Plan and run the squads’ delivery, including sprint planning, backlog flow, release planning and delivery commitments, working with Product and the development teams.
• Translate programme priorities and product goals into clear delivery plans, with milestones, dependencies and measurable outcomes.
• Drive momentum and accountability across multi‑disciplinary squads (Product, Business Analysis, developers, QA and specialist roles), keeping them aligned and removing impediments.
• Run the delivery cadence and team ceremonies (planning, stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives) and ensure they remain effective.
• Manage cross‑squad and cross‑product dependencies, keeping a clear view of the critical path and delivery constraints.
• Own the delivery‑level RAID position, surfacing risks, issues and dependencies early and managing them transparently.
• Anticipate issues and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
• Manage change to scope and plan pragmatically, protecting outcomes and value.
• Provide clear, decision‑oriented delivery updates focused on value, risk and confidence, not activity.
• Feed the programme’s governance, contributing to programme reporting, steering packs and milestone reviews with clear, traceable status.
• Work within the programme’s governance and the VMO’s delivery standards, applying them proportionately.
• Escalate to the Programme Lead promptly, with clear options and a recommended course of action.
• Support budget and forecast management for the products or work streams, tracking spend against plan and raising financial pressures early with the Programme Lead.
• Take direct responsibility for budget and forecast on smaller, self‑contained projects.
• Maintain a clear view of squad capacity and capability, highlighting constraints and supporting prioritisation and trade‑off decisions.
• Manage delivery through internal squads and, where used, external suppliers, holding them to plan and quality.
• Keep delivery aligned to business value and measurable outcomes, tracking when benefits are expected to be realised and highlighting slippage.
• Work with product, service…