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Senior Project Manager
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Project Manager
Thrive
• Own end-to-end delivery of our most complex, high-value and high-risk implementation projects, from scoping through to go-live and beyond. • Operate with autonomy in ambiguous situations, setting direction and a clear path where one doesn't yet exist. • Develop detailed project plans, work breakdown structures and resource allocation strategies for projects of significant scale and complexity. • Gain deep expertise across Thrive's product suite, ensuring technical deliverables meet platform requirements and customer needs. • Partner with cross-functional teams to establish technical specifications, architecture and design frameworks. • Lead the technical delivery of LMS implementation projects, ensuring seamless configuration, data migration and third-party integrations (e.g. HR systems, CRM, content libraries). • Review customer technical requirements, detailed specifications and user stories to ensure clarity of scope and alignment to the needs documented in the statement of work. • Oversee UAT cycles and coordinate the resolution of technical defects and feature gaps. • Serve as the technical bridge between customers and Thrive's Product & Engineering teams to support solution design and feature rollouts within the implementation phase. • Act as an escalation point for colleagues facing delivery challenges, helping to unblock and resolve issues. • Build and nurture relationships with stakeholders up to executive and sponsor level, ensuring their needs and expectations are met.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of proven success as a Project Manager, with significant experience leading complex, enterprise-scale LMS implementations or enterprise software delivery.
- A track record of mentoring and developing other project managers and raising delivery standards across a team.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction and advocacy on high-value accounts.
- An eye for protecting margin, mitigating risk to renewals, and spotting opportunities to grow accounts.
- Strong technical understanding of LMS technologies, including integrations and APIs, SCORM/xAPI content standards, SSO protocols (e.g. SAML, OAuth), user provisioning and data integration techniques.
- Able to write or review functional specs, interpret API documentation, and liaise between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with Product and Engineering teams during software development and configuration phases.
- Proven ability to plan, organise and manage resources for complex projects.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent formal certification required.
- Familiarity with tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Miro and Notion.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences, from end users to executives.
- An analytical mindset to anticipate and resolve project risks and challenges, often with incomplete information.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with tight deadlines and competing priorities.
- Experience working across cross-functional teams and with third-party vendors.
Benefits
- Unlimited Holiday to support work-life balance
- Thrivedays—a reduced workday every Friday (10:00–15:00), with no internal meetings
- Flexible Working Hours within core hours (10:00–16:00)
- Birthday & Christmas Off, including festive shutdown between Christmas & New Year
- Work From Anywhere—fully remote-friendly (4 weeks a year)
- Health Cash Back Plan with Health Shield
- Employee Assistance Program for confidential support
- Financial support program via Maji Salary Sacrifice
- Pension Scheme
- Death in Service (4x annual salary)
- Green Car Scheme through salary sacrifice
- Cycle to Work Scheme—save up to 42% on a new bike
- Perks at Work—30,000+ national & local employee discounts via CharlieHR & Health Shield
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