Project Manager

Please note: We are a hybrid working company and this role will require to attend Richmond (TW9) a few times a week and travel to customer sites when appropriate.

About Us

Launched in July 2020, Kerv is a next-generation ‘Customer-first, cloud-first’ provider, created to help customers achieve successful business outcomes in a new digital era.  We are undergoing an exciting period of transformation and growth following the merger of five highly successful organisations.

One of those organisations is Kerv Experience who live and breathe customer engagement. Every day, we create and implement award-winning, cloud omnichannel solutions to help our customers deliver industry-leading customer experience.

About the Role

As a result of continued growth, we are looking for a Principal Project Manager to lead the delivery of our largest, most complex and strategically important customer projects.

This is a senior, customer-facing role with end-to-end accountability from sales handover through delivery, go-live and transition into support. You will establish clear governance, maintain control of scope, plan, cost, risk and dependencies, and provide confident leadership to customers and internal delivery teams.

Alongside your own delivery portfolio, you will help raise project management standards across the team, coach colleagues and step into projects that need additional structure, recovery or senior stakeholder leadership.

Your part to Play

You will take ownership of complex Genesys Cloud and wider customer experience transformation projects, ensuring that delivery remains aligned to the agreed outcomes, Statement of Work and commercial position.

You will:

• Lead effective handover from sales into delivery, confirming that scope, assumptions, dependencies, commercials, customer obligations and acceptance criteria are understood and achievable.
• Establish the delivery approach, governance structure, reporting cadence and ways of working for each engagement.
• Lead customer kick-off, discovery and planning activities, translating requirements and solution inputs into a credible delivery plan.
• Coordinate internal teams, partners and customer stakeholders across multiple workstreams, managing dependencies and maintaining momentum.
• Own senior stakeholder communication and project governance, providing clear reporting on status, milestones, finances, risks, issues, decisions and actions.
• Maintain effective control of scope and change, ensuring that variations are documented, assessed, approved and reflected in the delivery plan and commercial position.
• Maintain accurate RAID, dependency and decision logs, escalating material concerns early and driving them through to resolution.