Business Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced and driven Business Project Manager to lead and support the successful delivery of strategic business change initiatives across a fast-paced and evolving organisation.

This role is ideal for a commercially minded Project Manager who thrives on delivering business transformation, improving operational processes, and driving cross-functional collaboration. You will play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to wider business objectives while maintaining strong governance and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract offering great benefits. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days per week in central Reading.

Key Responsibilities Lead the end-to-end delivery of business and transformation projects across multiple workstreams. Drive business change initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption, engagement, and operational readiness across impacted teams. Manage project governance, reporting, and controls in line with PMO standards and delivery frameworks. Own and maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, tracked, and mitigated. Facilitate stakeholder workshops, steering groups, and governance forums to support decision-making and project alignment. Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, resource forecasts, and status reporting. Coordinate cross-functional teams including Operations, Technology, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and third-party suppliers. Support procurement and commercial activities and ensure business requirements are clearly defined, documented, and translated into deliverable outcomes. Track project budgets, financial forecasts, and delivery milestones while identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements. Drive continuous improvement across project delivery, business processes, and operational ways of working.

Skills & Experience Required Proven experience working as a Business Project Manager within a complex business or transformation environment. Strong experience delivering business change and operational transformation initiatives. Demonstrable experience managing RAID logs, governance processes, and stakeholder reporting. Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches. Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation. Experience working with PMO frameworks, project controls, and reporting standards. Strong commercial awareness with experience managing budgets, forecasts, and project financials.