Graphcore - Project Manager

• Own end-to-end delivery of cross-functional projects, including scope, plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, issues and decisions. • Establish and run effective project governance, including delivery cadences, status reporting, change control, clear ownership and decision tracking. • Coordinate delivery from initiation through go-live and stabilisation, covering planning, execution, testing, user acceptance, cutover and hypercare. • Partner with Business Analysts and subject matter experts to translate agreed requirements and process designs into executable delivery plans. • Drive alignment across internal teams and third-party partners, resolving blockers, managing dependencies and maintaining momentum against agreed outcomes. • Define delivery milestones, acceptance criteria and readiness checkpoints to support high-quality implementation and controlled release. • Ensure change is landed effectively through communication planning, training coordination, operational readiness and adoption tracking. • Support post-go-live follow-through, including defect triage, prioritisation, lessons learned and continuous improvement activity. • Ensure changes are landed in a supportable way, with clear ownership, operating processes, documentation and service expectations agreed with the relevant teams where appropriate. • Work with stakeholders to ensure delivery plans appropriately consider access controls, security, auditability and policy or compliance requirements. • Manage vendor and partner deliverables where required, ensuring expectations, responsibilities, timelines and dependencies are clearly understood. • Produce clear project artefacts and updates that enable informed decision-making and transparent communication across stakeholders. • Candidate Profile • Candidate Profile • Essential • Proven experience delivering cross-functional business systems and operational change initiatives, including implementations, migrations, integrations or significant process change. • Strong project management fundamentals, including planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, governance and stakeholder communication. • Experience coordinating delivery across technical and non-technical teams through testing, go-live and stabilisation. • Ability to work effectively in a delivery model that includes Business Analysts or equivalent partners responsible for detailed requirements and process analysis. • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and effective plans, status updates, RAID logs and decision records. • Experience using modern delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence, or comparable platforms. • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and keep delivery on track in a fast-moving environment. • Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to work across multiple functions and with external partners. • Desirable • Experience delivering change across enterprise domains such as Finance, People systems, IT service management, procurement, workplace systems or identity and access management. • Experience planning and coordinating data migration, cutover activity and operational transition for enterprise systems. • Familiarity with security and access control concepts, including role-based access, least privilege and joiner, mover, leaver processes. • Experience working in environments with policy, audit or regulatory considerations. • Experience working on multi-vendor delivery programmes, organisational integration initiatives or large-scale business change. • Interest in, or experience with, AI-enabled workflow improvements and business system integrations.