Project Manager

Project Manager

Salary Circa £48,000 per annum (negotiable on experience) plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Permanent, full time (37.5) Hybrid working; from home and our office at One Strawberry Lane

Newcastle Upon Tyne

We can’t offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

This is your chance to make a big impact, leading our strategic change initiatives that support the delivery of our organisational priorities at Home Group.  As Project Manager in our Programme Management team, you'll use your expertise in both Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies to deliver change projects, ensuring full stakeholder engagement.

It's all about building strong relationships, managing expectations, and playing a key role in supporting change that benefits our customers.  Amazing we know!

What you’ll do


* Leading business change across multiple workstreams using our Project@Home framework.

Exciting projects we are currently supporting include implementation of a salesforce CRM, enhancing the future of our Repairs and Maintenance services and delivery and a new Wide Area Network (WAN) service provider.


* Manage projects using both waterfall and agile SCRUM methods, ensuring timely and successful delivery.  You’ll be collaborating with project sponsors and stakeholders to understand project scope and key deliverables, maintaining these important relationships whilst ensuring expectations are met.


* Utilise Smartsheet for planning, tracking, automating, and real-time reporting on project progress.


* Ensuring agile delivery in our Programme Management team, defining processes and managing products effectively.

Why join us

This is more than a job – it’s a place where you feel valued.

With our learning and development offer, and support from friendly colleagues, you’ll make a real difference every day! If you’re ready to leave behind the ordinary, do something that really matters. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have


* A PRINCE 2 or APM PMQ qualification with strong experience in applying agile and waterfall methodologies to enable project delivery.


* Experience in project planning and resource management, using project controls and risk management.  You’ll be an expert in IT change management that is focused on delivering customer benefits.


* Exceptional communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills to achieve win-win outcomes.  You’ll be a great influencer and able to think outside of the box on how things can be done more efficiently.


* Able to build and maintain important stakeholder relationships, quickly gaining the confidence of colleagues and senior leaders.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves.

That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work! 

The practical bits


* Flexible working hours, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.  You...