1220 Pmp jobs in London

Project Manager - PMP, RAID

Up to 695 per day (Inside IR35)

London / Hybrid (2-3 days a week on site)

3 months initially (with a view to extend)

My client is a high-profile Insurance company, who urgently require a delivery-focused Project Manager to join a business-critical programme.

Key Requirements:

• A wealth of experience working as a delivery-focused Project Manager within large, complex organisations.
• CVs need to have a clear distinction between the responsibilities and the process you follow as a Project Manager, whilst ideally demonstrating key achievements separately.
• Extensive experience working within Waterfall methodology.
• A strong technical understanding with the ability to relay technical information to non-technical audiences.
• The ability to define risk and mitigation plans.
• Strong budget and stakeholder management skills.
• Immediate availability.
• PMP certification

Nice to have:

• Previous Insurance industry experience
• Previous experience working in Cloud, specifically Azure environments.

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Project Governance Manager – Capital Projects

We’re hiring a Project Governance Manager to support the delivery of major capital expenditure projects within a leading UK infrastructure hub.

This role focuses on construction—not IT or tech—and involves managing project plans, cost baselines, and performance reporting across a portfolio of regulated projects.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in project or PMO roles within construction/infrastructure.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Solid reporting and data analysis capabilities.
• Proficiency in MS Office.

Join a team driving transformation and value in UK infrastructure.

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and more recently, Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over 100 million transactions in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Littlepay’s platform provides the API’s that enable the integration of hardware, software and payments, often from different vendors, into a modular transit ticketing solution for cities around the world.

Our Littlepay values:

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

We're looking for a Project Management Lead to lead and deliver high-quality API-based solutions to customers and partners, and to contribute to the company's overall success by helping to achieve its growth, revenue, and customer success goals.

Reporting to the Global Head of Operations, the Project Management Lead will:

• Assist in setting the strategic direction for the project management team and aligning it with the company's overall goals
• Oversee the execution of projects and provide guidance and support to project managers, including;
• Managing resources and budgets
• Communicating with stakeholders and keeping them updated on project progress
• Identifying and mitigating risks
• Resolving issues and conflicts
• Tracking and improving metrics
• Work with colleagues on our Engineering and Product teams to ensure consistently high-quality project delivery
• Develop and implement strategies to uplift existing project management processes and improve the company's ability to deliver API-based solutions successfully
• Lead a team of project managers, providing mentorship and coaching, and helping them to develop their skills and knowledge
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the project management team, with a specific focus on API-based solution delivery

Requirements

You must demonstrate the following:

• 5+ years of experience in collaborative, complex, multi-partner system integration projects, in the credit credit payments space, delivered to enterprise or government clients
• Experience leading and managing complex delivery projects using a variety of project management methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall
• Experience in establishing effective project governance and stakeholder communications
• Solid understanding of API-based integrations and related documentation
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience leading a small team in the project management space

Other favourable experiences:

• Experience working with cloud computing platforms and SaaS solutions to deliver API-based solutions
• Experience in the mobility-as-a-service space or with automated fare collection
• An understanding of the credit card payment processing industry, including the different types of processors, fees, and compliance requirements
• Experience implementing process improvement methodologies
• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (preferred but not required)
• A project management certification, such as PMP or PRINCE2

Our recruitment process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll meet with a second set of Littlepay folks, and be invited to participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

Benefits

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively
• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options (including annual, personal, volunteer, parental, grandparental, gender affirmation, and more)
• A company-wide paid day off
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Health insurance via our provider Vitality
• UK pension additional contribution split
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life (UK) or our EAP program (Australia)
• Our generous employee referral program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• A work from home remote set up allowance
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

You'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team who celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work, and be able to take up the numerous other benefits that working at Littlepay affords you, including having access to the eclectic and vibrant culture that Shoreditch is known for.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.

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Assistant Manager, Commercial Advisory and Assurance – Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.

Why join KPMG in Major Projects Advisory - Infrastructure Advisory Group?

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO’s at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.

Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.

On the back of continuing growth, we’re once again investing in our team to drive a step change in our capability. This means you’ll be joining one of the fastest growing areas of the firm at a time of real significance.

What will you be doing?

This role is for an innovative professional at Assistant Manager level, who can work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of planning, scheduling and project controls in construction to solve complex problems. There is no one-size fits all in MPA; we’re as diverse as the world around us. We hand pick our people because they’re our most important asset, and people pick us because we really mean that.

Assistant Managers in our team are client-facing and right at the forefront of delivery. This role requires previous experience ideally gained from infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but we’ll happily consider candidates with experience in other relevant fields.

As part of a team of consultants on the ground, you’ll be applying your subject matter expertise and experience every day, bringing to life tailored solutions for our clients whilst managing important relationships.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

What will you need to do it?

For this opportunity, we’re looking for candidates with some post-qualification experience primarily built around the planning, scheduling and project controls area of major projects and programmes. This could be as a contractor, consultant, or within a government role.

Your track record should evidence:

• A good, applied understanding of planning including managing tasks in relation to the development, update, monitoring and reporting of schedules; risk management; change control; identification of opportunities for improvement and implementation of best practice
• Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure of one of our priority sectors of transport, defence, power and utilities or nuclear
• Investigating schedule and cost performance, defining variance, causes and providing mitigating options
• Developing tools and reports to support project controls processes
• Risk identification and analysis
• Project and programme performance monitoring and assurance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• An ability to build and maintain great relationships and a desire to network across our firm
• Communication and presentation skills
• A desire to learn and develop new skills within planning and project controls
• Proficiency in using Excel, MS Project and Oracle P6

Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:

• Public sector experience
• Delay and scenario analysis
• Dispute advisory or expert witness experience
• Supporting the delivery of advisory services such as organisational design and governance optimisation
• Performance and efficiency improvement
• Enhancing project and programme controls
• Troubled project/programme reviews
• Achieved or working towards a relevant professional certification – e.g. APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2

Our Locations:

We are open to talk to major projects advisory talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:

• London Canary Wharf
• Manchester
• Birmingham

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

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