Interim Project Manager

We're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

We're recruiting for an Interim Project Manager to join us for a 12-month fixed term contract within our Data and Analytics team. The scope of the role is to lead, coordinate, and structure a portfolio of data and analytics initiatives, ensuring activities are clearly defined, governed, positioned for successful delivery and delivered, with expected benefits realised.

The business is undertaking a series of data-related initiatives aimed at improving insight capability, rationalising tooling, and strengthening the overall data platform.

Key areas of focus include:

Decommissioning of Phocas and transition to Azure and M365, including Power BI

Review, assessment and implementation of Databricks to replace Synapse and Informatica pipelines and notebooks

Carbon reporting tool for customer use

Discovery and shaping of additional data initiatives (may include automated quotations, dynamic pricing, product enrichment)

Given the evolving nature of the scope, this role will focus on structuring, planning, and governing activity, as well as enabling and managing delivery.

Establish a clear view of all in-scope and emerging data initiatives

Define scope boundaries, objectives, and success criteria for each activity

Develop and propose delivery roadmaps and associated sequencing

Planning & Governance

Create and maintain delivery plans, timelines, and RAID logs

Align with existing governance structures and reporting methodologies

Ensure alignment with IT and business priorities

Delivery Oversight

Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, Data, and Business stakeholders

Track progress against milestones and manage risks and dependencies

Manage initiatives to time and budget, realising benefits at agreed milestones

Ensure initiatives are set up for successful execution where delivery extends beyond the contract

Support early-stage discovery activities where scope is not yet defined

Translate emerging requirements into structured plans and work packages

Prepare initiatives for transition into live service

Stakeholder Engagement

Facilitate alignment across senior stakeholders

Provide clear, concise updates to the IT Exec

Act as a central coordination point across multiple workstreams

Portfolio view of data initiatives (including status and prioritisation)

Structured delivery plans and timelines for key initiatives

RAID logs and governance artefacts

Defined and documented delivery approach for each initiative

Successful delivery with measured and realised benefits

Required Skills and Experience

Project management of complex IT and data programmes, including in MS Azure environments

In-depth experience of working on data projects

Project planning tool(s) usage

Risk and issue identification and management

Previous work in ambiguous or evolving environments

Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels

Capable of managing project activities themselves; and managing external partners to their delivery plans

Stakeholder management and communication

What’s in it for you?

Hybrid Working – 4 days at our Binley, Coventry office and 1 day WFH.

Discretionary bonus

Retirement savings plan

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child

A wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more.

Access to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support.

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