Location: London (Hybrid Working) 3 days per week across two London sites
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

This is an exciting opportunity to join a major university as it delivers a significant capital investment programme across its campus estate. The Commercial Manager will play a key role in overseeing the commercial and cost management of major construction and refurbishment projects, ensuring successful delivery across a diverse portfolio of estates developments.

The Role

As Commercial Manager – Capital Projects, you will lead the commercial and financial management of a multi-million-pound capital delivery programme. Working closely with programme managers, Quantity Surveyors, consultants and contractors, you will oversee cost planning, procurement strategy, contract administration and financial reporting to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

You will act as a trusted commercial advisor to senior stakeholders, providing guidance on commercial risk, value engineering, funding considerations and cost assurance across the capital programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead commercial management across major capital construction and refurbishment projects
• Oversee project budgets, cost planning, procurement and contract administration
• Manage financial reporting, cashflow forecasting and commercial risk registers
• Work closely with project teams, consultants and contractors to ensure effective delivery
• Provide commercial advice and assurance to senior stakeholders
• Ensure projects deliver value for money and align with wider strategic objectives

About You

• Significant experience managing the commercial aspects of major construction or estates capital projects (typically £5m+)
• Strong knowledge of cost planning, procurement and construction contracts (JCT and/or NEC)
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, financial reporting and cost control
• Experience working in a client-side environment, ideally within the public sector or higher education
• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline
• Professionally qualified (e.g. RICS, CIOB) or working towards chartership

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced commercial professional to join a forward-thinking organisation and contribute to the delivery of a major estates transformation programme.

If interested in the role, please apply today with your most up to date word CV.

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Location: 3 days onsite in Bath and 2 days remote
Industry: Manufacturing
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Are you an experienced Governance Leader looking to play a pivotal role in a large-scale digital transformation? My client who is a renowned Manufacturing Firm are looking for a Governance Manager to join a global programme rolling out a new ERP for the firm. You’ll lead the governance of strategic delivery partners and ensure operational compliance across vendor engagement, data security, and financial control.

Please note this is an 18 month FTC paying up to £70,000 per annum and requires 3 days onsite in the Bath office.

ROLE

As the Governance Manager, you will oversee the governance framework within a global ERP transformation programme. You’ll be responsible for ensuring third-party delivery—spanning Systems Integrators (SIs), Business Integrators (BIs), and other vendors—meets compliance, performance, and commercial expectations.

You will lead a small governance team with two direct reports: one focused on vendor management and another on service transition and hypercare. The role will also interface across programme, infrastructure, and finance teams, driving best practices across licensing, access controls, financial governance, and change management. Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Own and evolve the governance framework across all third-party partnerships.

• Line manage and support two direct reports across vendor and service transition functions.

• Ensure alignment of partner access, role management, and licensing with compliance and policy.

• Drive GDPR compliance across the partner ecosystem.

• Lead financial oversight activities, including budgeting, Azure cost reporting, and invoice validation.

• Act as a governance lead for all change requests between the programme and Systems Integrators.

• Coordinate responses to partner-related queries, risks, and escalations.

• Support seamless handovers from programme delivery into business-as-usual (BAU) operations.

• Contribute to executive reporting and governance boards with partner insights and risk updates.YOU

YOU

The Manufacturing Company are looking for a Governance Manager with a mix of technical understanding, leadership capability, and a sharp eye for compliance and financial detail. If you’re experienced in managing complex delivery partnerships and want to influence real change, this could be the perfect fit.

Essential:

• Experience in governance, compliance, or IT delivery oversight in large-scale tech programmes.

• Strong knowledge of vendor management, contract governance, and third-party controls.

• Familiarity with ERP Platforms

• Understanding of access controls (RBAC), licence and identity management.

• Financial governance experience including Azure cost optimisation and reporting.

• Solid knowledge of GDPR and global data protection standards.

• Experience working in structured programme environments or PMO functions.

• Proven leadership ability managing teams and cross-functional engagement.

Desirable:

• Previous experience in an ERP rollout.

• Knowledge of Azure licensing and Microsoft enterprise agreements.

• Understanding of ITIL frameworks and service transition.

• Experience working across global or multi-region governance structures.

Key Competencies

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

• Detail-oriented with a focus on compliance and documentation

• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities

• Proven leadership and mentoring capability

• Organised and effective in managing competing priorities

• Professional integrity and commitment to confidentiality

For more information please reach out to Lauren Stutz at La Fosse – lauren.stutz@lafosee.com

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I am working with a Global Insurance company who are seeking a Finance PMO to provide process improvement and Finance support.

What you will be doing:

• Evaluate status reports and business cases.
• Support the PMO with benefit realisation and cost tracking framework.
• Set up and implement project forecasts.
• Work between the business PMO and Finance workstreams.
• Helping improve the Finance maturity work with the Finance and Portfolio partners to achieve this.

Desirable:

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Experience within complex programmes.
• Strong MS Office skills MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project
• Knowledge of Finance processes and a dynamic change function.
• Worked at a Portfolio level in previous roles.

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Location – London (flexible working)

Salary – Up to £550 Per Day

Background:

We are working with an industry leading gaming company who are in search of a well-versed IT Project manager with previous experience delivering Dynamics 365 projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vendor project management to deliver D365
• Stakeholder management
• Mapping the portfolio of activities across the teams in order to identify all individual activies and projects
• Coaching and mentoring team members to work under a project methodology

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Delivered D365 projects (ERP, CRM and CE)
• Knowledge of D365 product suite
• Modern project management methodology knowledge (Scrum, Agile, PRINCE2)
• Budget ownership

For a confidential discussion – apply now.

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Location – London (flexible working)

Salary – Up to £65,000 + Benefits

Background:

We are working with an industry leading events company who are in search of a well-versed IT Project manager with previous experience delivering data, system and product initiatives. This company are going through an exciting programme of work in the gaming division where this role will sit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vendor project management to deliver data environment, system and front-end product integration
• Stakeholder management
• Mapping the portfolio of activities across the teams in order to identify all individual activies and projects
• Coaching and mentoring team members to work under a project methodology
• Identify project opportunities

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Delivered technical/IT projects in the digital spce
• Knowledge of D365 product suite
• Modern project management methodology knowledge (Scrum, Agile, PRINCE2)
• Budget ownership

For a confidential discussion – apply now.

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The outcome of this requirement shall improve and modernise the way in which our client supports the delivery of services to customers (internal and external). They will become a more flexible and scalable, digitally enabled organisation, enabling realisation of the benefits from increasing productivity and value for money; improving the delivery of services to customers and users; reducing the organisation’s exposure to risk; and enabling the organisation to deliver its mission and strategic objectives.

Management, co-ordination, and oversight of the portfolio of Change, and Operational activity has been identified as an area for immediate focus. Delivery Programme activity will also require consideration in due course.

Consolidation of existing PMO capabilities, and the creation of a Central PMO shall provide a focal point for best practice and allow distributed teams to link to a common central hub.

Positioning the Central PMO at Enterprise-level, will allow the function to directly support ELT, the Board, and their sub-committees in delivering the Agency Strategic Plan. The Central PMO will provide visibility to ELT on the Organisational Portfolio to allow informed strategic decision making, and to facilitate stop/start/pause discussions on Portfolio activity.

PMO capability and capacity is distributed across the organisation. They run a Digital PMO, supporting the Digital Directorate and the Evolve transformation programme. Elsewhere, PMO-type operations support delivery directorates and corporate directorates providing functions including technical expertise, portfolio, programme and project management, reporting, business planning, and control environment operation

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Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Sidcup/Stratford or Manchester

Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40%

Salary: Starting at £49,675

We are looking for an experienced, capable and engaging colleague to join this Innovative Housing Association’s Strategy Team.

We need someone who is a natural collaborator, a lateral thinker who is highly capable at influencing at a senior level.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

· Supporting the development of the Group Corporate Strategy and long range strategic plans

· Facilitating and co-ordinating the implementation of the Group Corporate Strategy through designing and delivering tactical initiatives

· Leading on cross-cutting topics where there is no single accountable owner

· Leading strategic reviews to support the evolution of the L&Q value proposition

· Supporting the design and development of the Target Operating Model for L&Q Group and its subsidiaries

As such, the key skills required include but are not limited to;

Strategy and business planning

A natural problem-solver with the ability to define strategic approaches to important issues. Has high level of competence and experience at translating strategy to actionable plans.

Sector knowledge

In-depth knowledge and experience of the UK housing sector or charities and local government. An awareness of the priorities and challenges for Housing Associations.

Transformation & change

Practical understanding of designing for change in a large, complex business, and experienced with design and implementation in a commercial and not-for-profit setting

Research

A strong sense of professional curiosity, and an ability to use data and intuition to understand and articulate complex issues to enable the development of appropriate plans and strategies for effecting change.

Communication and Influencing

Highly adept at communication through all media, at all levels, internally and externally. A capable and competent representative of L&Q Group. Strong influencer. Able to influence for business wide change and delivering through others, with an emphasis on driving operational excellence and simplification of outcomes

Please apply below if you are interested!

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A Large Media firm require a Cyber PMO Manager to join at the start of their large Cyber Programme, reporting directly to the Cyber Security Programme Manager you will ensure that project management & best practice is implemented across all Cyber Projects.

This Cyber PMO Manager will have the following experience:

• Managed and built a Cyber PMO function from scratch

• Putting in governance around the Cyber PMO Function

• Previously worked across IAM, GRC, Information Handling, Awareness, Architecture, SecOps, DLP, Cyber Incident Response and Vulnerability Management.

• Support the Cyber Security Programme Manager with Project governance reviews and monthly performance/progress checkpoints

• Driving financial and business workshops & chair the business workshops if needed

• Identify any issues and problems that need immediate focus and resolution, and leverage key resources across to resolve issues quickly.

• The Cyber PMO Manager will be the primary interface to the business stakeholders ensuring that project governance/assurance is in-place in line with the companies Manage Programmes processes and procedures.

• Working closely with the Programme Manager attending PMO Forums, Governance meetings & Steering Committee

• Management of the financial process including Budgeting, Cost tracking & forecasting, Actuals, Accruals, Invoice tracking & SoW creation/tracking

If interested, please apply to the ad or contact me directly at antonio.alfieri@lafosse.com

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