Project Manager With BA Capablities
Posted:
10 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline:
7 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who are we
Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries including banking & financial services insurance retail higher education food healthcare and manufacturing.
Key responsibilities
Project management (core -70%)
- Own end-to-end delivery from initiation to closure: scope plan milestones budget and benefits.
- Build and maintain the project plan RAID log dependency map and change control.
- Run governance: weekly status (RAG) steering committee packs and decision logs for UWL leadership.
- Manage stakeholders across academic professional services IT and third-party suppliers.
- Track scope time and cost; raise variances early with options and trade-offs.
- Lead delivery using Agile Waterfall or hybrid methods matched to the project.
- Coordinate UAT cut over go-live readiness and hyper care.
- Manage handover to business-as-usual support and capture lessons learned.
Business analysis (high level - 30%)
- Run discovery workshops to understand current processes pain points and goals.
- Map current-state and future-state processes.
- Capture and prioritize high-level requirements and user stories.
- Maintain traceability from requirements to solution test and sign-off.
- Support gap and impact analysis including change impact on staff and students.
- Translate business needs for technical teams and solution architects; detailed analysis is supported by specialists where needed.
Requirements
Essential
- 8 years in IT or business change delivery including 5 years as a Project Manager.
- Proven delivery of CRM SaaS ERP or cloud implementations end to end.
- Hands-on experience running workshops mapping processes and writing requirements.
- Strong control of plans budgets RAID logs and status reporting.
- Confident communicator with senior stakeholders; able to challenge and negotiate.
- Working knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Waterfall delivery.
- Tools: Jira or Azure DevOps MS Project or Smartsheet Confluence Visio or Miro.
Desirable
- Experience in UK higher education (e.g. student lifecycle admissions SIS LMS Salesforce Education Cloud).
- Awareness of UK GDPR and data protection in project delivery.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and fixed-price delivery.
Qualifications
- PRINCE2 Practitioner PMP or APM PMQ (one required).
- Agile certification (e.g. PSM AgilePM) desirable.
- BA certification (e.g. BCS Business Analysis CBAP) desirable.
Behaviours
- Ownership mindset: drives outcomes not just activities.
- Structured and calm under pressure.
- Collaborative and empathetic with non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
NA
Required Skills:
Project Management and Business Analysis