Agile Project Manager

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Technology and Cyber team are looking for an experienced Project Manager to join the team.

As an Agile Project Manager, you will be working with Baringa’s Technology and Cyber teams, as well as key stakeholders across the business, to ensure the requirements of the technology project roadmap are delivered to a high-quality standard.

What you will be doing

• The successful delivery of one or more technology projects in line with our Plan, Build, Run and Cyber processes.
• Create strong project plans and supporting documentation, ensuring these are used to support management of the project and to drive timely escalation, linking in with the Agile backlog, resourcing demands and the work distribution across projects and teams.
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure your projects encompass planning for any required business change as well as any technical development, ensuring a fully rounded project delivery.
• Ensuring scope is clearly defined at an appropriate level for Agile delivery, approved at initiation and managed and controlled throughout delivery.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions and work to communicate, manage, escalate, and mitigate them successfully throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure clear roles and responsibilities are set at project initiation across the extended project delivery and stakeholder team, ensuring people understand their responsibilities and commitments associated with these.
• Ensure Scope, Cost and Time changes are managed within tolerance and change control is used to agree those changes beyond tolerance, with robust planning and project management allowing early identification of potential changes.
• Provide regular reporting to line manager, governance forums and project teams.
• Be accountable for your project’s costs, budgets and forecasts - ensure project spend is periodically reviewed against the business case, to ensure timely