Portfolio - Project Manager

Here at Whitbread, we’re looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to help deliver Commercial Technology initiatives that are predictable, well governed, and technically aligned.

This role is central to how we maintain confidence in delivery, ensuring technology solutions are architecturally sound, well-integrated, and delivered in a controlled and transparent way. You’ll enable leaders to make informed decisions while balancing pace, risk, technical complexity, and value across a complex portfolio.

Role

Technical Project Manager

Contract Type

Full time, Permanent

Location

Chancery Lane, London (Hybrid, 3 days per week in office)

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Family BUPA healthcare
• 10% matched pension
• Up to 60% off Premier Inn stays & 25% off our restaurant brands
• Annual bonus opportunity up to 20%

Explore all our benefits

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What you’ll be doing

As our Technical Project Manager you will be owning delivery governance, integrated plans, and RAID, with clear visibility of technical dependencies. Alongside this, you will be translating delivery and technical progress into clear, decision‑ready updates for senior forums.

As well as the above, you will be managing dependencies across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, and Partners and ensuring solutions are architecturally aligned, integration-ready, and delivered within agreed constraints.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience delivering complex, Proven experience delivering complex, technology-led programmes across full delivery lifecycles.
• Strong experience working with engineering teams, architects, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery models, and software delivery lifecycles (SDLC).
• Experience in integration-heavy environments (APIs, cloud platforms, enterprise systems, third-party vendors).
• Awareness of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and release management, and how they impact delivery.