IT Project Manager

Your new company
An international Law Firm that provides legal services to corporate and public sector clients globally.

Your new role
The IT Project Manager will be involved in leading the delivery of business-critical technology and change initiatives aimed at improving operational efficiency and customer experience. The post holder will be responsible for planning and executing projects end-to-end, managing budgets, timelines, risks, vendors and internal/external stakeholders, while ensuring alignment across business functions such as Legal Operations, HR, and Finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of business and technology change initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, maintaining control over scope, timelines, budgets, and risks.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, providing clear updates on progress, issues, and outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery and business alignment.
• Oversee vendor relationships, ensuring delivery against agreed milestones, quality standards, and contracts.
• Support change management activities, including communications and training, to drive successful adoption of new solutions.

What you'll need to succeed
Reporting into the Head of Technology, they are seeking someone from a professional services background with proven experience delivering IT infrastructure and SaaS based projects, who can manage multiple priorities simultaneously and can deal with demanding stakeholders.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end IT and business change projects, across infrastructure, applications, cloud and digital transformation
• Strong ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining control over priorities and deadlines
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging senior leadership
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve shared outcomes
• Solid understanding of project governance, including planning, budgeting, risk management, and reporting
• Experience managing third-party vendors, ensuring delivery to agreed standards, timelines, and contractual commitments
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, 365 & Azure services
• Awareness of ITIL Service Management practices and IT Architecture / Design processes (e.g. TOGAF)
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Prince2, PMP, MSP) are highly desirable

What you'll get in return
You can expect a salary in the region of 65,000 to 70,000 (DoE) along with a range of financial rewards, flexible working options, health and wellbeing support, and learning and development opportunities.

Please only apply if you have demonstrable Project Management experience working in a complex professional services environment, dealing with demanding stakeholders, delivering a range of IT and business-related change projects and live within a commutable distance to Manchester (office based 1 to 2 times a week).

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