Overview

In this role, you will act as the project management backbone for YouGov's Enterprise Systems & IT Portfolio. You mobilise and govern change across two senior leadership portfolios, building business cases and plans, then transitioning into delivery. You will provide leadership with a single view of portfolio health and coordinate cross-functional delivery partners. The role combines governance, planning, and benefits tracking to ensure value is realised post-implementation. This is a chance to shape how critical platforms are planned and delivered in a fast-moving, globally connected environment.

Pay / Benefits

best-in-class benefits to support wellbeing

Responsibilities

Develop business cases and ROI models to enable comparable investment decisions across the portfolio
Create resourced project plans with milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
Maintain RAID logs as the portfolio-wide source of truth for risks and dependencies
Stand up governance with decision logs, requirements traceability, steering cadence and approval routes
Produce consistent status reports to support prioritisation and resourcing decisions
Support vendor evaluation, requirements definition and procurement inputs for system selections
Transition projects from preparation to delivery, managing scope, budget, benefits and delivery lifecycle
Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to secure project inputs
Track benefits realisation and conduct post-implementation reviews
Create reusable frameworks and templates to raise portfolio consistency)
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Key requirements

Demonstrable track record delivering end-to-end IT change and systems projects
Strong business case and ROI development including cost/benefit modelling
Fluent in planning, RAID, governance, stakeholder management and status reporting
Experience with vendor selection and third-party delivery partners
Excellent written and verbal communication for senior leadership
Able to manage multiple concurrent projects and two reporting lines
Recognised project management methodology (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP or Agile/Scrum)

end-to-end ownership
ability to bring structure to ambiguity
influencing without authority
project management disciplines: planning, RAID, governance, stakeholder management, status reporting
vendor management and third-party delivery coordination
business case and ROI modelling

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