GlobalData Plc
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Job Title: Project Manager (Maternity Cover)
Location: London
Location type: Hybrid
Who We Are…
GlobalData operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.
By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what’s coming, move faster, and lead with confidence.
Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world’s largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.
Why join GlobalData?
GlobalData is at a pivotal point in its growth journey and we need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world’s most successful organizations.
Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData is fast paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.
The role…
As a Project Manager you will play an active role in managing and executing projects that fall within the company’s key strategic portfolio. You will work across multiple cross-functional teams and multiple programmes and projects.
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As Project Manager, you will play a key role in the day-to-day management of allocated projects and connected activities to help execute the company’s strategic roadmap. Your primary responsibility will be to maintain plans, risks and issues whilst providing regular reporting updates whilst monitoring the benefits case and commercial activity/ service transition to support the success of the project. The role requires strong stakeholder engagement and project management expertise to ensure alignment of the organization’s strategic goals with resources and desired benefits.
What You’ll Be Doing…
- End to End Project Management: Oversee and drive all phases of a project from initiation, planning through to completion including project close and handover to business as usual
- Stakeholder Management: Manage internal or third-party project resources to ensure that they are working effectively to deliver project outcomes
- Risk & Issues Management: Effectively manage risks and issues and escalations as required to keep projects on track
- Reporting, Monitoring & Tracking: Proactively managing, tracking and monitoring actions and activity required to keep projects on track
- Planning, Budget and Resource Management: Detailed planning, scoping and milestone management with clear budget management.
- Governance: Adopt and adapt project management structures and frameworks to best suit the delivery model required to deliver required outcomes
- Benefits realisation: Define and set up usage statistics and reporting required to track benefits realisation for regular reporting through Key performance indicators.
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What We’re Looking For…
- 5+ years of experience in programme/project management / PMO environments (Degree/ Master ideal)
- Experience and proven track record of working on multiple transformation projects, GTM, and operational improvement projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Hands-on, execution-focused mindset, with the ability to work across multiple projects.
- Experience in SaaS, B2B technology, or PE-backed businesses is a plus.
In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com
GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
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