Senior Consultant x 10- Project Management

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As the world's leading change and transformation consultancy, we're helping businesses move from strategy to reality by taking a pragmatic and practical approach to build solutions that last.

We're seeking a Senior Consultant - Project Manager in London to support a digital and technology transformation initiative by driving PMO coordination, workplan execution, governance, and delivery oversight across the programme. This role is ideal for someone with emerging management consulting experience and 3 years of project management experience, helping ensure the programme is well-managed, visible, and delivered in line with timeline, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

Please note, this is an initial 12 months inside IR35 PAYE Umbrella contract that will require onsite working in London 2-3 days per week.

SUMMARY

You will support the engagement lead by coordinating core PMO and project delivery activities across workstreams. You will own and support structured planning, governance, reporting, RAID management, stakeholder coordination, and follow-up actions to help keep the programme on track, well communicated, and effectively managed.

YOU WILL:

• Drive day-to-day project management activities, including detailed workplan development, milestone tracking, status reporting, and coordination across workstreams to ensure timely delivery.

• Coordinate governance forums, project meetings, and stakeholder working sessions; capture decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies, and ensure timely follow-up across teams.

• Manage project plans, RAID logs, and delivery reporting, proactively identifying issues, escalating risks, and supporting mitigation planning to keep the engagement on track.

• Monitor project delivery against plan, highlighting schedule impacts, interdependencies, blockers, and risks, and supporting resolution to maintain programme momentum.

• Develop client-ready materials including status updates, steering committee packs, meeting outputs, and executive summaries that clearly communicate progress, issues, and decisions.

• Support delivery planning and PMO controls, including tracking milestones, maintaining action logs, coordinating cross-functional inputs, and helping ensure readiness for key programme checkpoints.

IDEALLY, WE'D LIKE:

• 3–5 years’ experience in project management or PMO delivery, with prior management consulting experience and a track record of supporting complex transformation programmes.

• Strong project management capability, including workplan management, governance, risk and issue management, stakeholder coordination, and delivery reporting in fast-paced environments.

• Agile Methodology experience.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is required, with an understanding of pharma operating environments, cross-functional delivery, and regulatory considerations.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage detail, maintain accurate project documentation, and produce clear, executive-ready reporting.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build credibility quickly and work effectively with senior leaders, client teams, and cross-functional delivery partners.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom, without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, either now or in the future, for this position.
This is a temporary employee (PAYE) opportunity working via an Umbrella company.

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