- Company Name
- London North Eastern Railway
- Job Title
- Digital Project Manager
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Digital Project Manager
**Role Summary**
Deliver end‑to‑end digital initiatives within the Service Operation Model, coordinating cross‑functional teams, ensuring adherence to governance, timelines, and budgets, while driving value and stakeholder satisfaction.
**Expactations**
• 12‑month fixed‑term contractual role delivering projects aligned with service strategy.
• Own full project lifecycle: scope, planning, execution, monitoring, closure, and BAU handover.
• Deliver on agreed schedule and budget, meeting quality and business benefits targets.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead project initiatives using Agile and Waterfall methodologies, managing scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk.
- Apply the organization’s digital delivery governance framework; maintain compliance with portfolio and control processes.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions throughout the project.
- Coordinate resources, budgets and budgets, track financial performance, and report variances.
- Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to secure timely, cost‑effective deliverables.
- Facilitate stakeholder communication, ensuring transparency and active engagement.
- Oversee quality assurance to guarantee outputs are fit for purpose and use.
- Conduct hand‑over to Business as Usual, preserving production stability.
- Report on project performance against business and customer outcomes, including revenue impact and cost savings.
- Continuously improve portfolio framework and digital delivery practices.
**Required Skills**
- Proven project and change management experience in a technical environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall principles and tools.
- Advanced stakeholder management, influence and communication.
- Proficient risk, issue, and dependency management.
- Budgeting, cost control and financial reporting skills.
- Supplier and contract management experience.
- Business process optimisation and change implementation ability.
- Excellent organisation, problem‑solving and analytical abilities.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline.
- Prince2 Practitioner / Agile Practitioner or equivalent (or willingness to obtain).
- Agile certification (Scrum Master, Product Owner, or similar) preferred.