Senior business manager Work, Jobs in Lightwater, Sry (with Salaries)

Senior Project Manager
AKQA —London
- £750,000 a year
- Mentoring
- Budgeting
13d
Events Manager
Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa —Bagshot
- Weekend availability
- Hospitality
- Sales
- Hotel
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Divisional Business Manager - Education
Salutem Care & Education —Windsor
- £60,000 - £68,000 a year
- Microsoft Excel
- Analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
Head of Operations
East Berkshire Primary Care Out of Hours —Bracknell
- £65,000 - £72,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Store discount
- Employee discount
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Senior Client Relations Manager
Ascot Racecourse Ltd —Ascot
- CRM software
- Hospitality
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Senior Logistics Manager
AWE —Reading
- Up to £80,000 a year
- Full-time
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Senior Category Manager
Bestway Group —London
- Full-time
- Conflict management
- Annual leave
Quick apply
Global Senior Mid-Level Giving Manager
Compassion in World Farming —Godalming
- £47,000 - £500,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Driving
- Communication skills
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Senior Account Manager
AkzoNobel —Slough
- £52,900 - £75,600 a year
- Sales
- Travel
- In-person
Quick apply
Senior Manager, Operational Excellence (PPI)
Thermo Fisher Scientific —Horsham
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Continuous improvement
Senior Business Development Manager
Content Guru —Bracknell
- Full-time
- CRM software
- Sales
- Business development
Quick apply
Operation and Business Manager
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust —Reading
- £81,774 - £93,879 a year
- Part-time
- Master's degree
- Continuous improvement
- Budgeting
- Free parking
- Annual leave
7d
Capture Manager
Leidos —Farnborough
- £75,800 - £99,800 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Business development
- IT
- Annual leave
- Work from home
Senior HR Business Partner – TJC & Ideal World
Ideal World —Feltham
- £85,000 - £90,000 a year
- Full-time
- Data analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Human resources
- Free parking
- Store discount
Quick apply
Senior Product Manager
Bunch —London
- £100,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Master's degree
- Analysis skills
- No degree
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Project Manager
Leidos —Farnborough
- £58,400 - £74,900 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Office
- Project management
- Organisational skills
- Annual leave
- Work from home
Business Manager - East Berkshire, South Central
HM Prison & Probation Service —Bracknell
- £30,001 - £50,000 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Manager, Support Operations
Infor —Farnborough
- Management
- ERP systems
- Data analysis skills
Senior Insight Manager
Circana UK —Bracknell
- Hybrid work
- Sales
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
Quick apply
Senior Account Manager
Audience Collective —London
- £48,000 - £50,000 a year
- Remote
- Continuous improvement
Quick apply
11d

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Senior Project Manager

AKQA -
London

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Job details

£750,000 a year
13 days ago

Qualifications

Waterfall
Stakeholder collaboration
Kanban
Client engagement
Stakeholder liaison
Mentoring junior staff
Business processes
Project team management
Partnership building
Risk management
Mentoring
Forecasting
Overseeing budgeting and forecasting
Scrum
Project schedule tracking
Professional development mentoring
Budgeting
Multidisciplinary collaboration
Project management experience
Project progress tracking

Full job description

The AKQA Business Team serves as a trusted and respected partner to our clients, sitting at the epicentre of every project we deliver. Combining client services, project management, and production expertise, the team demonstrates industry-leading professionalism at every touch, meeting, call, and message, whilst ensuring all projects are delivered to the highest quality and on time.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex projects across multidisciplinary teams. You will establish clear project processes and maintain control from scope definition to execution. You will manage senior stakeholders, optimise team workflows, and address risks while upholding creative and operational integrity. You will help shape ways of working, mentor junior talent, and align projects with AKQA's creative standards, commercial goals, and client requirements.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Translate client needs and creative vision into executable plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource models.
Write, define, and agree scopes of work with clients, ensuring projects align with client priorities and budgets.
Tailor and communicate project structure by methodology or project phase.
Own the end-to-end delivery of large-scale or multi-workstream projects, ensuring projects are delivered within scope and budget. Avg. project durations 6 months + and budgets of c. £750k+
Manage multiple suppliers, partners, and clients to ensure best outcome for both client and AKQA. Keep stakeholders informed of project progress at all times and manage expectations proactively.
Identify risks, issues, and dependencies. Resolve challenges and close the loop on all open issues, balancing client demands with project realities.
Own budgets, EACs, and profitability across projects.
Collaborate with senior Client Services team and account leads on forecasting, budget planning, revenue planning, and commercial performance.
Lead client meetings and delivery conversations, providing updates on scope, timing, progress, timelines, risks, and delivery plans.
Author Project Status Reports, ensuring they are submitted on time.
Drive improvements in delivery process, tooling, and operational best practices.
Champion delivery standards. Contribute to delivery team operations, tooling refinement, and process innovation.
Set up and facilitate internal and client post-project reviews, and distribute insights from reviews.
Mentor and coach team members as required.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Proven experience managing a multi-disciplined service delivery function in an agency environment, implementing innovative, interactive, and consumer-focused solutions.
Strong experience managing either UX-led projects, UI, and technical web builds, coordinating both creative teams and developers, or, marketing communication campaigns delivering concept development, production and post-production activities and launches with experience running shoots working with production partners.
Deep knowledge of adapting delivery processes to client requirements, with hands-on experience using Agile/Scrum and Kanban methodologies (managing sprints, writing stories, leading stand-ups).
Familiarity with hybrid or waterfall approaches (e.g. SCRUM, Prince2, DSDM, or PMI) and the ability to tailor approaches accordingly.
Highly commercially aware, capable of making sound financial decisions and navigating complex customer situations with objective-focused solutions.
Collaborative Leadership & Mentorship: Passionate about guiding and mentoring junior team members, acting as a role model, and actively championing a diverse set of perspectives within the team fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment.
Strategic Client Partnership: Highly skilled at building deep, trusted rapport with stakeholders. Able to look beyond the immediate brief to understand the project's context within the client's broader business.
Commercial Acumen & Accountability: Demonstrates absolute financial responsibility and proactively identifies process improvements to drive efficiency, team success, and profitability.
Inventive & Brave Problem Solving: Approaches challenges with an entrepreneurial and objective-focused mindset. Willing to take intelligent risks, manage ambiguity, and innovate beyond standard conventions to secure better outcomes.
Commitment to Craft & Elevation: Obsesses over the details. Holds themselves and their teams accountable to the highest standards of quality, ensuring deliverables are not just useful, but intuitive and culturally resonant.
Generous & Influential Communicator: An accomplished communicator who fosters human connection and actively shares knowledge across teams. Readily connects teams to further the work and represents the agency with integrity and inspiration.

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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