Project Manager Jobs in London Area

Engineering Project Manager

From $10/yr

Engineering Project Manager The Role: As an Engineering Project Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex, cross-functional technology initiatives that support the organisation’s business strategy. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Business, Operations, and senior stakeholders to drive execution across multiple teams, ensure alignment on priorities, manage dependencies, and provide clear visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes. This role requires a strong combination of project management discipline, technical fluency, business judgment, and stakeholder management. You will help teams translate strategic objectives into executable plans, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, and ensure that critical initiatives are delivered efficiently and effectively. Responsibilities: Provide end-to-end oversight for the delivery of complex, large-scale engineering and business initiatives. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Business, and Operations teams to define deliverables, timelines, ownership, and execution plans. Break down complex projects into clear phases, milestones, dependencies, and workstreams. Prioritize the program roadmap to ensure teams are focused on the highest-impact work. Balance speed of delivery with strategic business goals, technical quality, and operational readiness. Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies early, and bring the right stakeholders together to resolve them. Provide consistent, transparent updates to stakeholders on progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes. Produce insights, analysis, and recommendations to improve delivery processes, team efficiency, and project execution. Experience in financial services, capital markets, brokerage, clearing, custody, or prime brokerage. Domain knowledge across front office, middle office, back office, and post-trade workflows. Experience/Skills: 10+ years of experience in project management, technical project management, change management, operational excellence, or a related discipline. Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, Business, and Operations teams. Proven track record of delivering large-scale projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, stakeholders, and delivery timelines. Strong ability to translate strategic business goals into structured execution plans, milestones, risks, and measurable outcomes. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience reporting progress, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership. Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to anticipate dependencies, identify blockers, and keep teams focused on the highest-impact priorities. Demonstrated ability to drive clarity and accountability in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to pre-empt issues and bring the right people together to resolve them quickly. We Offer: The organisation supports a collaborative working environment and requires employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. The organisation is committed to fostering a collaborative, high-performance workplace that values diversity of ideas, cultures, and experiences, and is an equal opportunity employer.

IT Project Manager

From $35/yr

IT Project Manager Our client is looking for a confident, delivery-focused IT Project Manager to drive projects forward within a complex business environment. This role is ideal for a Project Manager who excels at stakeholder engagement, building strong relationships and ensuring projects deliver against their objectives. While experience in business change initiatives would be advantageous, the priority is finding someone with the right personality, approach and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. This is not a technical Project Manager role. Success will depend on strong communication, effective stakeholder management, sound judgement and the ability to bring people together to achieve results. Contract: Inside IR35 Hybrid Working Pattern: 2 days per week on-site Key Responsibilities Lead and drive projects forward, ensuring delivery remains on track. Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders across the business. Engage with and influence senior stakeholders, challenging constructively where required. Manage project activities, priorities, risks, issues and dependencies. Bring structure and momentum to projects operating in a complex environment. Oversee business processes and workstreams, ensuring progress is maintained and outcomes are achieved. Provide clear, regular communication on project progress and key decisions. What We’re Looking For Proven experience as a Project Manager, ideally delivering business change initiatives. Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills. Confidence engaging with, influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders. A strong delivery mindset, with the drive and determination to move projects forward. Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills. The ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively in a complex environment. A proactive, personable approach, with the ability to build trust and bring people along on the journey. Personality and approach are critical. We are looking for someone who is credible, collaborative and confident — someone who can establish relationships quickly, challenge when needed and maintain momentum to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Senior Project Manager

The ideal candidate will have experience in managing a project from start to finish. This candidate will be able to create a plan of action which will consider a fixed timeline and evaluate risks. This individual should also have experience managing people and be an effective communicator. Responsibilities * Direct and oversee completion of project * Develop plan of action including schedule, resources and work plan * Assess risks and establish contingency plans * Manage work and inputs from variety of stakeholders Qualifications * 8+ years of experience in project management or relevant fields * Demonstrated ability to deliver a completed project * Prince 2 Qualified project manager * Crude products experience * Operational and service management background * ITIL Certificate

Project Manager

From $80,000/yr

Project Manager – Technology \& Business Change Salary: Up to £80,000 Location: London (3 Days per week) The Opportunity: We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join a specialist insurance business, supporting the delivery of strategic technology, operational and business change initiatives. This is a varied role combining project delivery, governance and change management, working closely with stakeholders across Technology, Finance, Underwriting, Claims and other business functions. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring projects are effectively planned, governed and delivered, translating business requirements into practical solutions while maintaining strong project controls and stakeholder engagement. Key Responsibilities: Project Delivery \& Governance * Manage multiple concurrent projects and change initiatives using appropriate Waterfall or Agile methodologies. * Maintain project plans, RAID logs, budgets, delivery milestones and supporting documentation. * Produce clear project dashboards, reports and presentations for senior stakeholders, steering committees and governance forums. * Monitor project expenditure against forecasts and support vendor management and procurement activities where required. Business Change \& Stakeholder Management * Assess the impact of proposed changes on business processes, systems and user groups. * Develop and coordinate change communications to support stakeholder engagement and adoption. * Build strong relationships across technical teams and business functions, ensuring requirements are clearly understood and communicated. * Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training materials and implementation activities to support successful project delivery. Business \& Technology Integration * Work with stakeholders across Finance, Underwriting, Claims, Actuarial and other business functions to document existing processes and define future-state requirements. * Translate business requirements into clear specifications to support system implementations, upgrades and process improvements. * Ensure appropriate controls are maintained throughout project delivery, with operational risks identified and managed effectively. Skills \& Experience Essential * At least five years' Project Management experience within an corporate or regulated environment. * Experience within the insurance industry, particularly Lloyd's or the London Market. * Strong experience in project governance, planning, reporting, risk management and project documentation. * Proven ability to manage stakeholders and deliver business change initiatives. * Experience using project management tools such as MS Project, MS Planner, Jira, Smartsheet or Azure DevOps. * Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities. * A structured approach to delivery, with the ability to maintain robust processes while working collaboratively with stakeholders. Desirable * Exposure to Finance systems change, systems implementations or operational transformation. * Knowledge of change management methodologies such as Prosci or ADKAR. * Experience with project budgets, vendor management and procurement processes. * A recognised project management qualification, such as PRINCE2 or APMG. If this role sounds of interest, please apply or email your CV directly to lorenzo.pignone@ipsgroup.co.uk.

Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing large and complex technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. The Senior Project Manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism and exercise independent judgment and decision-making. Job Responsibilities: * Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple and large complex projects with multiple work streams * Ability to create in depth WBS with interdependencies and a defined critical path * Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills; Develop and execute an efficient internal and external communication strategy for ensuring communication with all levels of management within the team * Monitors and reports on project progress to stakeholders * Builds and strengthens relationships with the customer and stakeholders (internal and external) * Responsible for creation and maintenance of resource plans ensuring effective resource allocation and distribution across portfolio of projects * Utilizes project management tools and techniques to improve execution and drive efficiencies. * Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology * Ensures profitable and successful execution of all assigned engagements as measured by regional goals and customer feedback * Proactively manages changes in project scope * Effectively creates and executes risk management plans * Manages and analyzes profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects * Understands and manages key project financial components to ensure projects are delivered within budget * Responsible for quality and timely execution of deliverables across projects , Work Experience * A minimum of 8 years' progressive experience in a related field * Working knowledge of both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management, in a technology industry. * Experience managing client expectations, vendor terms, and internal resource alignment * Demonstrated leadership in providing project deliverables as assigned. * Ability to manage budgets, analyze financial reports, and track profitability across projects. * Skilled at navigating complex challenges with analytical rigor * Understand difference between a risk and issue, and skills required to drive risk and issue resolution. * Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines. * Proficiency in managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines * Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail. * Experience in effectively influencing and leading internal and external teams. * Ability to influence, motivate, and guide cross-functional teams * Excellent problem solving, and critical thinking skills. * Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to engage clients, teams, and executives * Proficiency with project management software. * Experience delivering project management in a professional services environment