Project Manager

2 weeks ago

London, UK, United Kingdom ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions Full time

Project Manager


This role is hybrid, with a requirement to attend key meetings at locations in London, Uxbridge, and Bristol.

About the role:


This role will be accountable for the co-ordination and delivery of key strategic Talent Solutions projects. These will include projects that drive increased productivity leveraging technology, as well as product and service development. This role will involve supporting the origination of project charters, setting deadlines, monitoring progress, and status reporting to key stakeholders, in addition to orchestrating collaboration between the operation delivery teams and the shared service support functions.


  • Ensure delivery of key strategic transformation projects
  • Assist in the definition of business project scope and objectives, involving relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
  • Breaking down the delivery of complex projects into work packages, and iterative delivery where appropriate.
  • Ensure the successful delivery of each stage of projects
  • Deliver high quality, timely and on-budget deliverables that fully meet the scope of the project.
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure the validation and approval of any effort estimates and/or costs provided by vendors and partners.
  • Complete risk assessments of new vendors and product offerings where appropriate.
  • Manage the deliverables from third party vendors, through development of clear specifications, SOWs, exit criteria and quality metrics.
  • Develop detailed RACI matrices for each project to ensure clarity over the division of work.
  • Develop a detailed, transparent, and accurate project plan to monitor and track progress, and ensure that it is continually up to date.
  • Ensure all Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies are maintained on a RAID log for each project.
  • Manage changes to project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
  • Liaise with other project managers and programme management to ensure consistency in approach and status updates.
  • Comply with all relevant technology and IT security standards, methodologies, playbooks etc to ensure that technical deliverables meet company requirements.
  • Liaise with Global functions, to ensure that projects and technical outputs are in line with ManpowerGroup standards.
  • Act as a central control point for project management activities including working with third-party suppliers, internal project resources, business functions and the IT technical teams.
  • Assist the business to produce workarounds where the requirements cannot be met fully.
  • Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
  • Ensure continuous improvement ‘Method X’ is at the heart of our projects, particularly through sprint/iteration retrospectives, post-implementation reviews and lessons learned methodologies.
  • Assist colleagues in implementing project management frameworks for them to operate for minor deliverables.
  • Champion quality project management across wider business.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on all topics relevant to the role as required.
  • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, especially when it comes to working methodologies and processes.

Who we’re looking for:


Technical Skills

  • This is a technical role which requires experience of:
  • Creating and managing high quality project plans and status reports.
  • Creating and managing RACI matrices.
  • Providing clear project updates to stakeholders.
  • Managing IT/non-IT projects and workstreams.
  • Working with and implementing SaaS platforms.
  • Defining the non-production environment requirements for a project.
  • Vendor management.
  • Working with and/or within outsource partners and remote teams.
  • The following technical skills would be advantageous
  • Ability to break down complicated projects into iterative deliverables.
  • Continuous improvement methodologies.
  • An understanding of IT policies and procedures.
  • Knowledge of the recruitment industry business domain.
  • A working knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project methodologies, particularly Scrum.


Personal Skills

  • The following skills and traits are required:
  • High standards of professionalism.
  • A process driven nature.
  • Flexibility and adaptability to react to emerging business needs.
  • Ability to challenge the status quo and current thinking in a constructive and persuasive manner.
  • Good teamwork and personal skills.
  • Collaboration and negotiation skills.
  • High levels of organisational skills.
  • Ability to handle conflict in a calm manner.
  • A strategic mindset, whilst being pragmatic at times when tactical solutions are necessary.
  • Explaining complex concepts in a simple way.
  • Comfort in conversing with people at all levels of both technical and management seniority.


About us:


Global leaders in workforce solutions and strategies.

Our clients need to be agile and innovative to survive in an unpredictable landscape. At Talent Solutions, we help them meet every challenge by addressing their most complex workforce needs. We offer everything from Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) to Managed Service Provider (MSP) solutions and world-class talent management. We get people. And together, we’ll shape our future.


We are proud to have been voted one of the world’s most ethical companies for 15 years in a row. This reflects our commitment to integrity, transparency, and ethical business practices.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community—a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified or experienced people regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or disability. ManpowerGroup is a Disability Confident Employer and we’re happy to talk about flexible working.


We get people and together we’ll shape our future. Apply now.

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