IT Project Manager

Salary: £27,000 - 67,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering medium-scale IT or technology-enabled projects from initiation through to implementation and handover.
• Strong project governance, planning and control experience, including management of scope, schedule, change and quality.
• Practical experience of financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking and expenditure control.
• Experience identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies in a complex delivery environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with confidence working with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex delivery information into clear reports, recommendations and decisions.
• Experience defining, tracking and supporting benefits realisation against an agreed business case.
• Recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, PMP or Agile certification.
• Experience in delivering security or cyber security projects.
• Experience within utilities, infrastructure or another regulated environment would be advantageous.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead medium-scale IT projects end to end, ensuring agreed outcomes are delivered to scope, time, cost and quality.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, plans, controls and governance with sponsors and business owners.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, expenditure and financial reporting, supporting informed investment decisions.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and change, escalating where required to protect delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and coordinate delivery across business colleagues, technical specialists, suppliers and partners.
• Maintain accurate project plans, reports and documentation, providing clear visibility of progress, decisions and delivery confidence.
• Build effective relationships with sponsors and stakeholders, set clear expectations and support timely decision-making.
• Embed quality management, assurance and formal acceptance of project deliverables.
• Define, track and support the realisation of agreed benefits, ensuring delivery remains aligned to the business case.
• Plan and coordinate resources effectively, resolving competing priorities and delivery constraints.
• Work with the wider project management community to apply consistent delivery standards, share learning and improve ways of working.

Technologies:

• Support
• Project Manager
• Security
• Office 365

More:

We are a water utility company based in the Yorkshire region of England, and we are looking for an IT Project Manager to join our Tech team. This is a permanent role based at Leeds Valley Park with hybrid working, typically 2-3 days in the office each week, for 37 hours per week Monday to Friday. We offer a competitive salary depending on experience (£52,000 - £65,000), an annual incentive related bonus, an attractive pension scheme with up to 12% company contribution, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 extra wellness days, life assurance cover, a wide benefits package, retail savings, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and more. We are committed to flexible working where possible and to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. Our work is focused on serving over 5.4 million people across the Yorkshire region, protecting the environment and delivering lasting outcomes through technology investment.

last updated 39 week of 2026