44 senior project manager jobs found in Reading

Senior Project Manager – Agency – London Daily rate: 250 – 350 (outside IR35) Duration: 3 months Hybrid: 3 days per week Start: ASAP My client is looking for a Senior Project Manager that will act as the day‑to‑day project lead, with a strong focus on scoping, commercial planning, and the drafting and management of Statements of Work (SOWs). The role will use Asana as the primary tool for cross‑team communication and delivery, working closely with SEO teams in particular, while also coordinating with planning and activation teams as required. A key part of the role will be identifying and implementing improvements to ways of working, ensuring efficient collaboration, clear ownership, and smooth end‑to‑end delivery. Responsibilities : Lead End to end delivery of projects Scoping, and SOW development, ensuring clarity on deliverables, timelines, and costs Managing project/account commercials and reporting financials status to Project Director Own...

Senior Project Manager Location: Hybrid with periodic travel to Swindon and London offices (Onshore) Duration: 01/06/2026 to 01/06/2027 Rotation: Monday-Friday Type: Freelance Outside IR35 Description: As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of a world leading offshore windfarm for RWE Renewables UK. The role sits on the Project Leadership Team (PLT) and currently reports into the [Development] Project Lead, and comprises assuming overall responsibility for leading a large, multi-discipline project team progressing preparatory works incl. Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management, engineering, procurement, and project management required to ensure that the project is ready to commence the Construction Phase at the time of taking Final Investment Decision (FID). The project team will also be required to provide support in the form of technical and commercial input to the preparation of business cases, and value...

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. This is an initial 6 month contract (outside IR35) that requires you to work on client site 3 days a week in London, Paddington.   Your key accountabilities will include: • Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects. • Agile Delivery:...

Robert Half is recruiting for a Senior Programme Manager Role for a 12 Month contract. **This role is outside IR35* * ROLE: Programme Manager Role LENGTH: 12 Months FTC LOCATION: Hybrid - London office 2 days minimum PAY: Outside IR35 The Role This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile, multi-year transformation programme that will shape the future of the organisation. The programme brings together several strategic priorities, including organisational development, programme growth, and a property redevelopment. You will play a central role in ensuring these interconnected workstreams are aligned, well-governed, and delivered successfully. Key responsibilities Lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex transformation programme, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and funding milestones Develop and maintain an integrated programme plan across multiple workstreams Establish effective governance structures and reporting...

Project Risk Manager – Offshore Wind (Contract) Contract Period: 01/05/2026 – 01/05/2027 Day Rate: £650 per day (Outside IR35) – 8 hours per day Location: Hybrid – Work from London or associated offices Overview We are looking to secure a Project Risk Manager to support multiple UK Offshore Wind Farm developments. The successful candidate will provide end to end project risk leadership across bid, design, manufacturing and construction phases. This is a critical role ensuring proactive risk identification, mitigation, and reporting at senior project and steering committee level. Key Responsibilities Lead Risk Management activities across multiple offshore wind development and construction projects. Drive identification, assessment, mitigation and escalation of project risks to senior stakeholders including the Project SteerCo and Finance Director. Own all Risk & Opportunity topics across the project lifecycle. Ensure all risk management...

Project Manager - Domestic Corruption Unit Outside IR35 | £500-£550 per day | London (1 day per week on-site) Active SC & NPPV3 Required An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Project Manager to join a high-profile Domestic Corruption Unit , supporting critical national-level investigative capability. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on building teams, structures, and programmes from the ground up in a secure and fast-paced environment. What You'll Bring Proven experience setting up new teams or functions , including designing frameworks, processes, and governance Strong project leadership across complex, sensitive, and operational environments Ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders, operational leads, and multi-disciplinary teams Excellent organisational and delivery skills with a focus on outcomes, compliance, and structure Clearance Requirements Candidates must already hold : Active SC (Security Check)...

IT Project Manager - Mergers & Acquisitions London Rate: £650 - 750 p/d (outside IR35) 3 month initial contract We're representing a high-growth organisation actively acquiring multiple businesses annually and building a dedicated M&A IT team to support that expansion. This is a critical, long-term hire and they are seeking an experienced Project Manager to play a central role in leading the successful delivery of complex IT integration projects. You'll join a strategically independent team focused solely on M&A integration, reporting into the IT Service Delivery Manager. With up to 10 acquisitions planned each year for the next four years, this is a rare opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where your leadership and delivery skills will directly shape enterprise-wide change and you'll gain career defining experience. Key Responsibilities * Lead the full project life cycle for M&A-related IT initiatives * Build and manage...

IT Project Manager - Mergers & Acquisitions London Rate: £650 - 750 p/d (outside IR35) 3 month initial contract We 're representing a high-growth organisation actively acquiring multiple businesses annually and building a dedicated M &A IT team to support that expansion. This is a critical, long-term hire and they are seeking an experienced Project Manager to play a central role in leading the successful delivery of complex IT integration projects. You 'll join a strategically independent team focused solely on M &A integration, reporting into the IT Service Delivery Manager. With up to 10 acquisitions planned each year for the next four years, this is a rare opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where your leadership and delivery skills will directly shape enterprise-wide change and you 'll gain career defining experience. Key Responsibilities * Lead the full project lifecycle...

Robert Half is recruiting for a Senior Programme Manager Role for a 12 Month contract. **This role is outside IR35* * ROLE: Programme Manager Role LENGTH: 12 Months outside IR35 LOCATION: Hybrid - London office 2 days minimum PAY: Outside IR35 The Role This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile, multi-year transformation programme that will shape the future of the organisation. The programme brings together several strategic priorities, including organisational development, programme growth, and a property redevelopment. You will play a central role in ensuring these interconnected workstreams are aligned, well-governed, and delivered successfully. Key responsibilities Lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex transformation programme, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and funding milestones Develop and maintain an integrated programme plan across multiple workstreams Establish effective governance structures and...

We're working with a leading global specialist recruitment consultancy on this exciting opportunity. We are looking for a high-impact Integration Delivery Lead to spearhead a major IT transformation programme, driving the technical and operational alignment of complex enterprise systems. In this high-visibility role, you will be the glue between technical architects and senior business leaders, ensuring that large-scale data migrations and platform consolidations are delivered on time and within budget. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape the future digital landscape of a major organisation using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. The Role Lead the delivery of a unified IT integration plan, managing complex interdependencies across various technical and operational workstreams. Partner with the Digital PMO to provide high-level reporting on milestones, risks, and resource pressures using Jira and MS Project. Architect risk mitigation strategies for...

Robert Half is recruiting for a Senior Programme Manager Role for a 12 Month contract. **This role is outside IR35* * ROLE: Programme Manager Role LENGTH: 12 Months FTC LOCATION: Hybrid - London office 2 days minimum PAY: Outside IR35 The Role This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile, multi-year transformation programme that will shape the future of the organisation. The programme brings together several strategic priorities, including organisational development, programme growth, and a property redevelopment. You will play a central role in ensuring these interconnected workstreams are aligned, well-governed, and delivered successfully. Key responsibilities Lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex transformation programme, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and funding milestones Develop and maintain an integrated programme plan across multiple workstreams Establish effective governance structures and reporting...

Technical Project Manager - Up to £550 P/D (Outside IR35!!!) Technical Project Manager Location: UK (Hybrid) Duration: 6 Month rolling - High chance of extension IR35: Outside Start: ASAP The Mission: A fast-growing UK digital financial services organisation is about to execute a major identity transformation. Two legacy authentication platforms. Millions of users. Regulated environment. Zero appetite for customer disruption. Your job? Lead the migration of customer identity and authentication services onto a modern CIAM platform powered by Ping Identity / ForgeRock — delivered with the support of a top-tier Systems Integrator. It’s time-critical. It’s high-visibility. And it needs someone who’s done this before. What You’ll Be Owning : End-to-end delivery of a full CIAM migration programme Consolidation of two legacy IAM stacks into one strategic platform Migration of authentication journeys, MFA, policies, and credentials Planning and...

🚀 Senior Data Product Manager (Contract) London (Hybrid) | £650/day | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35 An established data intelligence business is looking for a Senior Data Product Manager to lead the development of data-driven products used by global clients. This role sits at the intersection of product, data science, and engineering, shaping data products that generate actionable insights and commercial value. Key Responsibilities Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of data products used internally and by external clients Work closely with data science, data engineering, and analytics teams to translate models and insights into scalable products Define product requirements and ensure data science outputs are operationalised into usable products and features Collaborate with stakeholders across technology, research, and commercial teams Drive product discovery, experimentation, and iteration to continuously improve data products Experience...

Senior CRM Product Manager - High-Impact Sales Technology Transformation Outside IR35 | £500-£550/day | Occasional travel to London or Derby Are you a CRM Product Manager who sees CRM as a value-creating product - not just a database? Do you thrive in commercial environments where sales productivity, data quality, and workflow design actually matter? If so, this contract gives you the opportunity to lead a major CRM transformation with real organisational impact. A large, complex organisation is rebuilding its Dynamics 365 CRM ecosystem, shifting towards an insight-led sales technology platform that embeds modern sales methodology and powers predictable, scalable revenue growth. This role is the single product owner for CRM - responsible for strategy, data structure, workflow design and cross-functional delivery. What You'll Own Define & drive the CRM product vision and roadmap Translate commercial needs into scalable CRM capabilities and behaviours Redesign life...

🔥 Contract Product Manager – Data, Commercial & Growth Focus – EdTech Scale-Up 🔥 📍London 🏢Hybrid - 2 days/week min 💷£400-£450/day - DOE - Outside IR35 ⏳2 months with the possibility to extend ⏱️Start ASAP 🚀 One for the analytically minded Product Managers who love getting under the skin of data and driving real commercial impact… We’re partnering with a fast-growing EdTech scale-up in London that’s on a serious upward trajectory 📈 and they need a sharp, commercially astute Product Manager to help unlock the next phase of growth. This isn’t a “roadmap babysitter” role… this is about following the data, finding the opportunities, and shaping what matters most 💥 💡 What you’ll be doing: • Dive deep into data working closely with analysts and getting hands-on yourself (PowerBI, Looker Studio, GA4) • Connect the dots between data insights and revenue performance 💰 • Identify trends, opportunities, and inefficiencies across the product and...

Role: Contract Technical Consultant / Infrastructure & Containers Engineer Location: Southwest London (Hybrid; 3 days per week onsite) Duration: Initial 12 Months Rate: £400 - £425 per day (Outside IR35) Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required We are seeking a Technical Consultant to act as the primary interface between a specialist IT consultancy and a global leader in the Defence & Aerospace sector. You will oversee technical delivery, manage senior stakeholders, and ensure the roadmap aligns with complex, mission-critical requirements. Key Deliverables Architectural Oversight: Act as the Subject Matter Expert for Containerisation (Docker) and Infrastructure, defining the strategy and ensuring engineering teams deliver to standard. Business Acumen: Navigate a high-pressure environment, translating technical challenges into business solutions and operational outcomes. Technical Governance: Oversee the management of VMware...

Role: Contract Technical Consultant/Infrastructure & Containers Engineer Location: Southwest London (Hybrid; 3 days per week onsite) Duration: Initial 12 Months Rate: £400 - £425 per day (Outside IR35) Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required We are seeking a Technical Consultant to act as the primary interface between a specialist IT consultancy and a global leader in the Defence & Aerospace sector. You will oversee technical delivery, manage senior stakeholders, and ensure the roadmap aligns with complex, mission-critical requirements. Key Deliverables Architectural Oversight: Act as the Subject Matter Expert for Containerisation (Docker) and Infrastructure, defining the strategy and ensuring engineering teams deliver to standard. Business Acumen: Navigate a high-pressure environment, translating technical challenges into business solutions and operational outcomes. Technical Governance: Oversee the management of VMware estates and...

Senior JavaScript Engineer contract - Outside IR35 - £575 per day Leading Ecommerce client is now recruiting a talented ‘Full Stack JavaScript Developer’ who is proficient in front and back-end development. (React/Node.js), with an emphasis on backend Node work initially. This role will be joining their platform team, designing, and building the foundations of which our clients innovative web and mobile applications run on. What will a day in the role entail? Working as an integral part of an agile team contributing towards the planning and development of systems/platforms. Collaborating with engineers, product owners and business analysts to define solutions, ways of working and share knowledge across the department. Reviewing code and providing support to members of your team. Working on client-facing applications in react / next.js Designing and building Node.js / GraphQL APIs. The ideal Senior JavaScript Engineer Senior level experience in modern...

Product Manager - AI Implementation (Outside IR35) Start Date: ASAP Location: Remote About the Role We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join a high-impact programme focused on implementing an AI solution within a large central government department. You will work at the heart of the programme, helping delivery teams onboard to the solution, providing hands-on guidance, and ensuring teams are maximising the value of AI within their services. This is a rare opportunity to shape how AI is adopted across a significant public sector organisation, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to embed the solution effectively and drive measurable outcomes. Key Responsibilities Lead the product management of an AI solution being rolled out across multiple service teams, owning the product roadmap and backlog. Support teams through onboarding, providing clear guidance, training, and documentation to accelerate adoption. Act as the go-to...

Associate Analytics Director ? £450 per day (Outside IR35) ? 2 days onsite per week – Central London ? 4.5-month contract Start: w/c 20th April An industry-leading digital agency is looking for an Associate Analytics Director to join a high-profile financial services project. The role requires strong SQL skills (Teradata preferred) and 1PD expertise to independently manage complex datasets and address data duplication challenges.Key Responsibilities: Develop and optimize SQL queries for large-scale datasets (Teradata experience advantageous). Identify and resolve 1PD data duplication issues, ensuring high-quality analytics outputs. Work independently while liaising with senior stakeholders for guidance and oversight. Required Skills & Experience: Advanced SQL knowledge; Teradata experience preferred. Hands-on experience with 1PD datasets and data integrity processes. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously. Prior experience in...