project manager

From origins as a small, independent gas supplier in the North West of England, we have grown to become a major business energy supplier. After just ten years, Gazprom Energy has become the second largest business gas supplier in the UK and we currently supply 34,000 business customers at over 80,000 sites across Europe.

Manchester is home to our European headquarters, a base from which we have expanded into France and the Netherlands. Our teams across Europe are united by the shared ethos of being helpful and making life easier for our customers. In 2015 we won the coveted Energy Supplier of the Year award at the Energy Awards 15, as well as achieving Gold standard in people management by Investors in People for the second time running.

Our culture is defined by our people. Through living our values every day we continue to create a culture that enables us all to succeed. We work as one team with our customers, our parent company and each other in order to understand each other’s needs. With an unstoppable passion for excellence, growth and learning, we’re committed to creating an environment that fosters the development of knowledge, skills and experience, so that our people can thrive and prosper in their careers with us. We believe that we have the best team in the industry which makes us a trusted partner across international capital and energy markets. Our diverse employee base, with a wealth of expertise, knowledge and experience makes GM&T a truly exciting place to work. We encourage new ideas and initiatives as innovative thinking is central to how we do business. Most importantly, we are a growing and developing business where inspired individuals can make a difference and help shape our future.

The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating; prioritising and delivery against the Delivery Workstream Project Backlog. They will work with a team of Business Analysis; Developers and Testers to manage the full project lifecycle from requirements capture; solutioning, execution, testing, implementation and handover into support.

They will have strong Project Management skills; stakeholder management, leadership, planning, reporting, resource and risk/issue management. Experience of Agile methodology and Azure Dev Ops or similar product to manage and track progress.

The successful candidate will need to be equally comfortable working with line of business teams to identify opportunities and report progress against their projects

You should bring a keen focus on practical solutions - namely what can realistically be done that delivers the business need, have a good understanding of relevant digital technology stacks, application development including business change and be comfortable taking responsibility for the end-to-end delivery in this space.