Senior Project Manager

DV cleared Senior Project Manager - Farnborough (Hybrid), a driving licence and a willingness to travel between the customer site is essential- £75-80k base salary

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a DV cleared Senior Project Manager to join their existing experienced team and and play a vital role in shaping some of their exciting projects where everyone has a voice, and together they face their clients' problems head-on. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources to ensure successful project delivery. Their expertise includes Secure-by-Design, cloud computing, advanced network and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-tenanted High-Performance Compute, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation, and intelligence systems. They provide supplier-agnostic, technical, and business consultancy to customers while championing open-source and best-of-breed technologies.

As a DV Senior Project Manager you will need a focus on people and to be comfortable embracing their values, standards and their ways of working:

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery.
• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others.
• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills and effective questioning/listening skills. Able to communicate with confidence at higher and lower levels.
• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from providing advice on improving client’s delivery to ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to assist the team and customer in delivery.
• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value.
• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges.
• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution.
• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training.
• Integrity - Promote a high professional standard at all times.
• Experience in working with multiple project management methodologies

Responsibilities:

• Project management- The ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including forecasting, change management and risk management.
• Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources.
• Foster open communication across teams to identify cross-team development dependencies and risks early on.
• Work with project accountants to managed project finances
• Experience of working in a project delivery environment with a sound understanding of structured and agile methodologies and applying them in separate situations (e.g. APMP, MSP, Jira, Tempo, Scrum).
• Problem solving- The ability to identify problems collaboratively and develop actions/solutions, communicating both to key stakeholders and presenting information through reports, dashboards and slides as appropriate.
• Commercial awareness- Providing contract management, supplier management.
• Market experience working within the UK Defence & Security sector is advantageous.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields preferred or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification)
• Strong project management, risk management, and procurement management skills.
• Familiarity with the Agile, Waterfall and Shape Up profiles and methodologies.
• DV Clearance

DV cleared Senior Project Manager - Farnborough (Hybrid), a driving licence and a willingness to travel between the customer site is essential- £75-80k base salary