Mando Group | B Corp™
Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our delivery team at Mando Group.
About Us
Mando Group’s mission is to help ambitious digital leaders solve complex problems, enabling them to move faster, serve better, and reduce costs.
Over the last few years, we’ve built something rare: a respected, award-winning business with brilliant people and trusted client and partner relationships.
Our Team Demonstrates
- Purpose and performance
- Warmth and ambition
- Care and commercial confidence
- Thoughtfulness and momentum
About You
You are:
- Outcome-obsessed, always focusing on delivering tangible value rather than just completing tasks
- Commercially aware and ambitious, actively contributing to value creation and business growth, with an efficiency mindset
- A fast-paced collaborator who thrives through uncertainty, providing clarity and reassurance in ambiguous situations
- Customer-obsessed, whether winning new business or delighting existing customers, driving innovation
Above all, you’re a value-adder: automating, engineering, and simplifying processes to ensure our customers receive unprecedented value through technology and innovation.
About The Role
We’re seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our PMO, working across a portfolio of digital transformation engagements, including:
- Enterprise DXP programmes
- CMS migrations
- Ongoing optimisation retainers
Key Responsibilities:
- Take full ownership of projects from pre-sale planning to close-down
- Collaborate with Account Directors, Product Owners, and Technical Leads to ensure on-time, on-budget, high-standard delivery
- Report directly to the Head of Project Management and contribute to weekly PMO discussions to shape delivery improvements
- Hybrid role (base: Liverpool City Centre)—minimum one in-office day per week, with flexibility for remote work
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Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project delivery across digital engagements, managing scope, budget, timeline, risk, and quality
- Set up and maintain project tooling, including:
- Jira (custom workflows, JQL, epics, dashboards, sprint configurations)
- Project RAID logs, Finance Reports, Work in Progress (WIP) tracking
- Chair key meetings:
- Internal and client kick-off & planning sessions
- Weekly client calls, sprint ceremonies, and release meetings
- Proactively manage project financials, including:
- Tracking actuals vs. planned expenditure
- Producing variance reports and flagging commercial risks
- Build and maintain C-level client relationships, acting as the primary escalation point for complex queries
- Support pre-sale activity, including:
- Proposal & Statement of Work (SoW) creation
- Planning support and quote preparation
- Ensure project compliance via RAID log reviews and documentation quality governance
- Articulate the value of Mando Group’s services using technology & digital expertise to inform advisory conversations
Essential Skills
Core Skills
- Strong client-facing communication, including influencing, crisis management, and stakeholder management at all levels
- Data-driven decision-making, using risk analysis, variance data, and analytical thinking
- Commercial awareness (profit, margin, Earned Value Assessment (EAC), T&M vs. fixed resource models)
- Cross-functional collaboration—facilitating delivery across development, test, UX, and product teams
- Calm under pressure—maintaining composure during critical project phases without compromising quality
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Technical Skills
- Advanced Jira: Custom workflows, JQL, epics, story mapping, dashboards, sprint management
- Advanced Tempo: Time tracking, billable hours, approval processes, capacity analysis
- Advanced Confluence: Permissions, space organisation, template governance, Jira integration
- Intermediate/Advanced Office 365: Excel (financial modelling, data analysis), Word, PowerPoint, MS Project (Gantt planning)
- Agile & Waterfall delivery methodologies—ability to manage multiple projects/budgets concurrently
Qualifications & Certifications
- PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or equivalent project management qualification
Bonus Skills
- Experience with DXP platforms (e.g., Optimizely)
- Familiarity with Tempo Planner for resource management
- Contribution to PMO process/templates/methodology development
- AI literacy (comfort with tools like Claude for productivity & quality improvements)
Our Values
Guiding principles around honesty, respect, and inclusivity: We celebrate equality and diversity, ensuring everyone can thrive. As an equal opportunities employer, we do not discriminate based on:
- Gender, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy
- Race, nationality, religion, disability, or age
If you need adjustments during recruitment, please let us know.
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If you want to be part of a forward-thinking team delivering rewarding work, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now.
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