Strategic Change Project Manager

Strategic Change Project Manager
12 months fixed term contract
Full time (34.5 hours)
Hybrid between home and our London, Shipley or Glasgow office
£53,000 - £58,000 per annum

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About the role

In this role you will be responsible for developing, planning, executing and evaluating projects in our Strategic Change portfolio – ensuring alignment to the wider vision and strategic direction of Macmillan and maintaining a focus on outcomes.

You will be working collaboratively with Business Leads across Macmillan, you will define the project’s objectives and drive progress throughout its life cycle.

The role will be deployed flexibly in line with organisational priorities, managing standalone projects, and projects within complex, cross-organisational change programmes, to agreed time, cost and quality criteria.

This role requires candidates to have demonstrable experience of operating in a very similar or comparable role.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience of initiating, leading, planning and executing projects and project teams to deliver within a large, complex, organisation.
• Experience of developing robust and concise business cases including options appraisals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills, flexing and adapting to changing circumstances.
• Preferable experience of managing projects involving procurement, technology implementation, people change, service development and process improvement.
• Experience of matrix managing project teams. 

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 23:59.

1st interviews w/c 7 April 2025.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.