IT Delivery Manager/ Project Manager (Junior)

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Delivery / Project Manager to support a complex IT/data programme. The role will focus on removing delivery blockers, coordinating business and supplier teams, driving accountability, and ensuring projects progress effectively in a resource-constrained and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and remove blockers relating to data, ownership, decisions and business inputs .

• Work with internal business teams to prioritise requirements and capture business knowledge.

• Facilitate workshops and help establish clear, repeatable processes .

• Manage and coordinate third-party suppliers, ensuring agreed milestones, quality and deliverables are achieved.

• Maintain an integrated view of the delivery plan, dependencies, risks, issues and finances , using Microsoft Project.

• Ensure project inputs have clear ownership and outputs are defined, measurable and testable.

• Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, steering groups and boards.

• Drive timely decision-making and ensure blockers are visible and actively managed.

Essential Experience

• Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT/data programmes .

• Strong track record of unblocking delivery in resource-constrained environments.

• Experience managing and working closely with third-party delivery partners/suppliers .

• Strong business change and process-definition experience.

• Strong financial/budget management skills.

• Comfortable working with ambiguity, incomplete requirements and evolving scope .

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.