Project Manager

About the Role

The Project Manager will be responsible for leading the Frontline Improvement Project, ensuring its successful delivery and alignment with organisational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the successful delivery of the Frontline Improvement Project, ensuring it meets organisational priorities and delivers measurable, sustainable change
• Provide structured project leadership, maintain accountability for progress, and coordinate cross-functional activity to keep the project on track in terms of scope, time, cost, quality, and stakeholder expectations
• Support the Senior Leadership Team in planning, developing, testing, and implementing all elements of the Frontline Improvement Project
• Coordinate the project by establishing clear structures, plans, and processes that enable effective collaboration across departments

This role helps expand PDSA's reach to support more people and their beloved pets by driving organizational improvements that ensure vital veterinary care continues for pets of people in financial hardship for the next hundred years.

Required skills and experience:

• Proven track record of delivering business change initiatives while effectively managing multiple workstreams
• Comprehensive understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies, with the capability to apply the most suitable approach to meet project objectives
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at all levels
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple teams or departments to drive shared outcomes
• Strong organisational skills, with experience in planning, tracking, and reporting project progress, risks, and dependencies

Benefits include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays, with option to buy or sell an extra five days
• Three paid special days off: Volunteering Day, Celebration Day and Wellbeing Day annually
• Generous pension options, with PDSA contributions starting at 5% and rising to 10%
• Life assurance providing four times your annual salary
• AXA Health Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 wellbeing support
• Retail, holiday and lifestyle discounts through staff Fetch benefits platform
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 15% discount on PDSA Pet Insurance plus access to staff veterinary services