Senior Digital Project Manager


Location
Dudley, England
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 Pro Rata Per Annum
Profession
Project manager
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
04 Nov 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
21 Oct 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

9 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    Significant experience of Project Management and evidence of delivering complex large projects

  • Experience

    Experience of line management duty and leading project teams

  • Experience

    Experience of leading business realisation with a clear focus on patient experience and outcomes

  • Qualifications & Education

    Project Management qualification or equivalent experience

  • Qualifications & Education

    Educated to degree level or equivalent with post graduate qualification or experience in an IT project management-related subject

  • Planning & Organisational Skills

    Ability to working to regular, tight deadlines

  • Planning & Organisational Skills

    Robust risk management experience

  • Planning & Organisational Skills

    Ability to forward plan, experience of succession planning and experience of assessing digital maturity within an organisation

  • Communication & Relationship Skills

    Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds

Desirable

5 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    Significant experience of managing high profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust

  • Experience

    Experience of working within a PMO and following PMO processes

  • Qualifications & Education

    Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills

  • Planning & Organisational Skills

    Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

  • Communication & Relationship Skills

    Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills

Job overview

We require a Senior Digital Project Manager, with excellent project management experience, as well as technical knowledge, to work as part of a dynamic and agile Infrastructure team.

The post holder will be responsible for running technical projects and programmes, both internally and for our customer base.

As a Senior Digital Project Manager you will need to provide budget and financial assurance for your portfolio of projects, ensuring value for money from project resources.

You will manage and monitor individual related project budgets, monitoring costs, expenditure and benefits.

As an individual you will have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate in both a technical and non-technical language. You will maintain effective engagement with customers and project team members in a variety of formats, so the progress of the project at each stage is understood and managed.

Main duties of the job

  • Evaluates complex situations using multiple sources of information to validate and interpret.
  • Manages and appropriately escalates: risks, issues, and changes associated to the project delivery
  • Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels
  • Analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties
  • Assigns and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget
  • Creates a method of change management including ownership of documentation, communication plans, process training, etc.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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