Bristol – £55,000 – £60,000

+ 10% discretionary bonus, 25 days holiday, pension matched +1% (eg 5% + 6%), up to a maximum of 11%

12 Month FTC

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager for a well-known customer of ours to join and run the full life cycle of the property management system transformation project.

The project manager will play a critical role to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget, including the creation and maintenance of project plans.

Project Manager Responsibilities

• Managing resources, working with third parties and strategic partners to deliver to time, cost and quality
• Manage a portfolio of projects including reporting, deliverables, and benefits tracking.
• Provide best practice and advice on project management frameworks and standards for PMO and wider business.
• Ensure budgets are managed.
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment to deliver the project
• Identify and manage risks to ensure delivery is on time

Project Manager Skills

• Great interpersonal skills to work well with your key business partners
• Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision
• Experience in property management systems.
• Experienced in both agile and waterfall methodologies
• Experience of working within a PMO environment
• Proven experience of Business Change Techniques
• Experience in delivering projects with solutions involving both bespoke and package solutions

If you feel you have the qualities our client is seeking and want to work within a great organisation, please email an up to date copy of your CV to [email protected]

Delivery Manager Consultant

Must be able to become Security Cleared

£75,000 to £90,000 per annum

Hybrid role with 2-3 days a week work in either Cheltenham or London

Starting ASAP

Our client, a fast growing SME have demand for a Delivery Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. You will be working across a number of their projects, across the public and private sectors.

They are looking for a Consultant with experience delivering projects in a consultancy environment (not a Project Manager). The ideal candidate will have Bid/Pre-sales or Business Development experience, and been involved with strategic decision making previously.

The successful candidate must be willing and able to become SC cleared (5 years continuously living in the UK, and not being abroad for more than a 3 months stint during that time).

If this role is of interest please email a CV through to [email protected] (REF: ZSDDC)

Rate: INSIDE IR35

Clearance required: Active SC and NPPV3

Interview process: Teams meeting

Location: Remote with event-based travel to client site in London, possibly 2-3 days per month.

Duration: Initial 6 month contract with possibility of extension

Job Description:

A senior interaction designer is an experienced designer who works with minimal support to contribute to delivery of the MAPPS service.

At this role level, you will:

• be a hands-on member of the interaction design profession that collaboratively contribute to the design delivery of MAPPS
• work embedded within an agile sprint team to deliver design thought leadership and design solution for your respective features
• be able to work in a very open, collaborative and supportive environment across professions
• understand and address design goals, usability and accessibility requirements using iterative design process
• produce screens and clickable prototypes to test design concepts which takes into account established design patterns and technical and non-technical constraints
• make important decisions based on research and understand how this research impacts the service
• finalise screens and screens flow for delivery which aligns with acceptance criteria
• be a design advocate and communicate well throughout the design cycle from concepts to delivery to ensure high standard of work
• document learnings and contribute back to shaping consistent design delivery on MAPPS

Tool used:

• Sketch to create high fidelity wireframes
• Visio to stitch together screens flow
• GDS prototype kit to craft clickable prototypes

Delivery Consultant

Must be able to become Security Cleared

£75,000 to £90,000 per annum

Hybrid role with 2-3 days a week work in either Cheltenham or London

Starting ASAP

Our client, a fast growing SME have demand for a Delivery Consultants to join their team on a permanent basis. You will be working across a number of their projects, across the public and private sectors.

They are looking for a Consultant with experience delivering projects in a consultancy environment. The ideal candidate will have Bid/Pre-sales or Business Development experience, and been involved with strategic decision making previously.

The successful candidate must be willing and able to become SC cleared (5 years continuously living in the UK, and not being abroad for more than a 3 months stint during that time).

If this role is of interest please email a CV through to [email protected] (REF: ZSDDC)

Proposition Manager (x2) – Mortgage, Insurance, Protection & Wealth products

Our prestigious Financial Services client based in Greater Manchester have a requirement for 2 x Product Managers to join on an interim basis, working within the client’s Proposition and Partnership team focusing on the end-to-end development of new products and the enhancement of existing products within the Mortgage, Insurance, Protection and Wealth product suite.

Up to £550 per day – UMBRELLA ONLY

3 month initial contract

Largely Remote Working. Requirement to work from the client’s offices in Greater Manchester circa 2 days per month

Essential Experience needed:

• Extensive previous experience of undertaking Proposition Management roles, with exposure to and with strong knowledge of as many of the following product suites as possible:
  • Mortgage
  • Insurance
  • Protection
  • Wealth
• Extensive previous experience Financial Services experience
• Strong experience of leading end-to-end proposition development initiatives
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the business

Any candidates who are not able to clearly demonstrate all of the required experience above within their CV, will not be considered for this role.

To apply for this role, please send a copy of your CV in the first instance. Suitable candidates will be contacted in due course. If you have not heard back within 7 days following CV submission, your application in this instance will have been unsuccessful.

Location: London / remote

Clearance: SC clearable / BPSS

Rate: INSIDE IR35

Duration: 6 months

We are looking for a Service Designer to join an agile team on the Digital Transformation of Screening programme.

The role will involve:

• Designing concept journeys, blueprints and roadmaps that communicate how the total user experience can be elevated beyond the immediate product or service;
• Facilitating the collective understanding of the end-to end, front-to-back experience by mapping the orchestration of events at the intersection of technology, business and design;
• Shaping how behind-the-scenes processes and support functions interact with each other and how these impact the design process;
• Embedding design practices within organisations to create a sustainable approach to service the needs of the user;
• Working with User Researchers to generate insights through research with users, staff and stakeholders to shape a holistic view of the total user experience;
• Analysing, consolidating and communicating research findings to stakeholders in order to strategically frame, validate and quantify the problem being solved and help inform the wider strategic roadmap of initiatives;

Essential Technical and Professional Expertise

• 1+ year of client facing experience in a Service Design role in a Public Sector organisation (post education)
• Experience of planning, scoping, conducting analysis and communicating Service Design throughout the Agile product development lifecycle
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops to reach a specific outcome
• Experience of working within an Agile scrum team (working across Designers, Product Managers, Developers, Business Analysts and other Researchers)
• Ability to convert a single or a group of research findings into specific prioritised recommendations
• Ability to use tooling that supports the creation of service design artefacts

Preferred Expertise

• Experience of working as a Service Designer against the Government Digital Service framework
• Experience in using the following tooling: Jira, Confluence, MS suite, Mural and Figma