Description
We are seeking an ambitious, sharp, and execution-driven Senior Project Manager to take full ownership of program delivery within our London office. You will bridge the gap between high-level strategy and ground-level execution. Your mission goes beyond basic project tracking: you will establish benchmark project standards, enforce rigorous change control, protect commercial baselines, and consistently surpass customer expectations.
Responsibilities
•Build, baseline, and defend full Project Management Plans (PMP) detailing execution rationale, resource allocation, procurement pathways, and risk protocols.
•Own the master schedule. Track critical paths, manage baselines, and control performance across time, cost, quality, and operational impact.
•Manage change requests with discipline. Evaluate operational and financial impacts, maintain the Change Register, and protect project baselines from scope creep.
•Enforce Arrive's standard phase-gate methodologies across the full project lifecycle, ensuring zero compromises on quality or operational readiness.
•Treat the project business case as a living document. Align every operational decision with overarching financial health and commercial viability.
•Forecast, track, and manage capital and operational expenditures. Link scope changes directly to financial impact to prevent margin erosion.
•Maintain line-of-sight across internal specifications and external customer contracts. Partner with Commercial teams to enforce T&Cs, claims control, and baseline management.
•Own the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies/Opportunities). Quantify threats early and implement decisive mitigation strategies before delivery is impacted.
•Partner with functional leads to secure, deploy, and retain the human and material resources required for high-velocity delivery.
•Build credibility across senior internal executives, external partners, public transit authorities, and enterprise customers through clear, structured communication plans.
Requirements
•Demonstrated track record of leading complex, high-stakes projects within the Transport, Mobility, Software markets.
•Deep fluency in formal project methodologies (APM, PRINCE2, Agile, or PMI) and hands-on experience navigating Phase-Gate governance structures.
•Strong proficiency in P&L tracking, contract management, cost forecasting, and baseline change control.
•Proven ability to manage customer-facing deliverables where operational downtime or delays carry direct reputational and commercial risk.
•Exceptional English verbal and written communication skills; adept at presenting actionable data to C-suite leadership.
•Acts with the end-user and client in mind, turning potential roadblocks into transparent, collaborative solutions, with a relentless drive for operational excellence.
•Balances firm commercial boundaries with strong relationship preservation during complex stakeholder negotiations.
•Comfortable making high-impact decisions under pressure while holding delivery teams accountable to world-class standards.
Conditions
Not specified in the posting.
