Harvey Nash
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Project Manager
Location: Newcastle (Preferred), Blackpool, Leeds, or Manchester
Contract: Initial 3-Month Contract
Rate: Up to £330 per day (Inside IR35)
Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery of a major government data transformation programme. This role will focus on leading a complex initiative aimed at improving enterprise data sharing, modernising legacy data environments, and enabling more effective collaboration across business and technology teams.
The successful candidate will have experience delivering data-focused programmes and be comfortable operating within large, complex stakeholder environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of a large-scale data transformation project, working with internal and supplier teams to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Manage project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, governance, and reporting activities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across Digital, Data, Technology, business stakeholders, and supplier teams.
- Lead stakeholder engagement and communications, ensuring visibility of progress, risks, issues, and benefits.
- Coordinate discovery and requirements activities to identify and prioritise new use cases and business requirements.
- Maintain delivery roadmaps, balancing business priorities, technical constraints, and delivery capacity.
- Define and track project outcomes, success measures, and benefits realisation.
- Drive organisational change activities to support adoption, including governance, processes, and ways of working.
- Ensure decisions are informed by data, evidence, user feedback, and business needs.
- Facilitate collaboration across business, architecture, data, digital, technology, and supplier teams.
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Essential Experience
- Experience delivering data, integration platform, or enterprise data-sharing projects.
- Strong track record within complex transformation programmes involving legacy data modernisation.
- Understanding of organisational design, operating models, and change management.
- Experience defining project success measures, benefits realisation, and adoption strategies.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills across business, technical, and supplier teams.
- Strong experience managing project governance, planning, dependencies, risks, and reporting.
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Candidate Requirements
- Must be located within reasonable commuting distance of Newcastle, Blackpool, Leeds, or Manchester.
- Newcastle-based candidates are preferred.
- Must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience working within large-scale public sector and digital transformation environments is highly desirable.
What's on Offer:
This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile government transformation programme, helping to improve how data is shared and utilised across one of the UK's largest public sector organisations. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams delivering meaningful change through modern data and technology solutions.
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