[Hiring] Lead Project Manager @Public Sector Resourcing

Role Description

As a Project Delivery Lead, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of market authorisation services across multiple regulated product regimes, ensuring applications progress efficiently through the different stages of the service, ensuring key delivery milestones are achieved.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, tracking progress, dependencies, risks and issues across workstreams to ensure delivery commitments are met.
• Provide effective project management and governance oversight, working with the Service Delivery and Performance and Reporting Team Leaders to produce high-quality reporting and management information to support decision-making by senior leaders and governance boards.
• Identify, assess and proactively manage delivery risks, issues and resource pressures, escalating where appropriate and driving mitigations to protect service performance.
• Coordinate activity across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective prioritisation, clear accountabilities and timely delivery of outputs.
• Drive continuous improvement in service delivery and project management practices, implementing tools, processes and reporting that improve efficiency, transparency and performance.
• Lead planning activities for future delivery, including the design and mobilisation of delivery plans for 2027, ensuring resources, dependencies and risks are understood and managed.
• Support the development of performance metrics and service insights, using data and evidence to identify trends, inform decisions and drive operational improvement.
• Ensure stakeholders are kept informed through clear, timely and professional communication, building confidence in the delivery of market authorisation services.

Qualifications

• Programme and Project Management professional qualification/licence/certifications.
• Demonstrable knowledge and application of programme and project management methodologies, tools and techniques to plan, coordinate and deliver complex work programmes, managing dependencies, milestones, risks and resources effectively.
• Experience of leading complex, high-profile programmes, projects or services, delivering results in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries and build consensus amongst diverse interests.
• Experience of leading governance, risk and performance management activities, providing clear insight and assurance to senior decision-makers.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement, challenge existing ways of working and lead delivery of change that improves outcomes and organisational effectiveness.

Requirements

• Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Benefits

• As a Disability Confident employer, FSA encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review.
• FSA guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.
• As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, FSA welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners.