Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager, focussed on business and service transformation you’ll play a major role in driving meaningful change across Peabody.
You’ll lead complex projects that make a real difference to our customers and colleagues, ensuring they’re delivered on time, within budget, and with clear, lasting impact. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll translate business needs into practical, deliverable plans and create the right conditions for successful, sustainable change. You will oversee planning, governance, delivery, risk management and business readiness, ensuring change is clearly understood, well implemented and able to achieve its full potential.

About You
You’re an experienced Senior Project Manager who brings confidence, clarity and calm to complex situations. You build strong relationships quickly, communicate clearly and collaborate naturally. Customer centred and analytical, you adapt your approach when needed and have a track record of delivering complex change at a high standard. You’re someone who supports others to excel and keeps people focused on what truly matters.

You’re a proactive, people centred leader who thrives in ambiguity. You ask the right questions, listen carefully to understand the real issue and shape solutions that work in practice. You bring a test and learn mindset and aren’t afraid to challenge constructively when it’s needed. Values driven and grounded, you stand alongside the business, support decision making and help guide teams through uncertainty. You bring energy, momentum and a “can do” attitude that inspires confidence.

How You’ll Make a Difference
You will deliver complex projects and programmes to agreed scope, time and cost, ensuring benefits are realised and changes are embedded. You’ll lead planning, communications and business readiness activities; identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies; and provide clear governance, reporting and structured oversight.

You’ll lead and support multi disciplinary project teams, ensuring the right people are engaged and resources are well used. Working closely with operational managers, you’ll help them navigate choices, embed new ways of working and deliver long term improvements for colleagues and residents.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience leading complex, multi workstream organisational change projects — from strategic design through to operational delivery — including setting clear outcomes, defining and tracking measurable benefits.
• Experience leading multi disciplinary project teams (e.g. Business Analysts, Business Change Managers, SMEs and Workstream Leads) with clear evidence of creating high performing team environments.
• Experience delivering organisational change in a multi stakeholder environment, managing diverse interests and ensuring alignment across different teams and functions.
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills, with experience influencing at both operational and strategic levels, constructively challenging thinking and facilitating decision making in complex environments.
• Proven ability to work effectively in ambiguous and fast changing environments — making progress with incomplete information, shaping direction where clarity is lacking, and supporting others to stay confident and focused without rigid structure.
• A proactive and curious approach, with evidence of diagnosing real business problems, engaging stakeholders in co designing solutions, and applying a test and learn mindset to iterate and improve outcomes.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills, including experience producing clear documentation, briefings and business cases, and presenting confidently to senior stakeholders.
• A values led approach and a strong commitment to improving the experience of customers and colleagues, demonstrated through previous roles.
• Practical knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and techniques, with the ability to apply them flexibly and contextually rather than rigidly. Project management qualifications (e.g. APM, PRINCE2, Agile PM) are desirable.

This is a hybrid role working a minimum of 2 days a week at the Westminster Bridge Road office.

Why Join Us?
When you join Peabody, you’re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises and Pull Together. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, supported and empowered, and where diverse experiences, voices and perspectives are truly valued.

What We Offer
30 days’ annual leave.
Flexible benefits including healthcare, dental and discounts.
4x Life Assurance and up to 10% pension contribution.
Professional development, including funded apprenticeships.
Two paid volunteering days each year.
Family friendly policies and a supportive team culture.

Please read before applying:

• You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
• We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
  

If this sounds like the right fit for you and you’d love to join Peabody, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply by submitting an anonymised CV and a short statement explaining why you're the perfect fit for this role.

Interviews will take place in person at the Westminster Bridge Road office on Monday 20 April.

If you have any questions, please email Talent Specialist, Tanisha at tanisha.johnson@peabody.org.uk