Senior Project Manager, Urban Mobility Delivery

Arrive; Paris; On-site; EUR 106,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrive is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own program delivery from our London office. You’ll bridge high-level strategy and execution, establishing benchmark standards and enforcing Change Control and Phase-Gate governance to protect commercial baselines.

You will lead financial governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement with a customer-first mindset, ensuring delivery excellence in transport, mobility, and software projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, high-stakes projects within the Transport, Mobility, Software markets.
• Governance expertise with formal project methodologies (APM, PRINCE2, Agile, or PMI).
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including P&L tracking and contract management.
• Customer-first mentality with the ability to manage customer-facing deliverables and reputational risk.
• Exceptional English written and verbal communication; ability to present data to C‑suite leadership.

Responsibilities

• Program Execution & Baseline Control: Build baseline PMPs and defend execution rationale, resources, procurement, and risk protocols.
• Schedule & Workstream Management: Own the master schedule, track critical paths, and manage baselines across time, cost, quality, and impact.
• Change Control & Scope Integrity: Manage changes with discipline and protect baselines from scope creep.
• Phase Gate Governance: Enforce Arrive’s phase-gate methodologies across the project lifecycle to ensure quality and readiness.
• Budget & Cost Control: Forecast and track capital and operational expenditures; link scope changes to financial impact.
• Contract & Specification Management: Align internal specs with customer contracts; enforce terms and baselines with Commercial teams.
• Risk, Resource & Stakeholder Management: Maintain RAID log; allocate resources and build credibility with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Program management

Change control

Phase-gate governance

Budget management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

PM methodologies

Commercial acumen

English communication

Job description

Arrive is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own program delivery from our London office. You’ll bridge high-level strategy and execution, establishing benchmark standards and enforcing Change Control and Phase-Gate governance to protect commercial baselines.

You will lead financial governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement with a customer-first mindset, ensuring delivery excellence in transport, mobility, and software projects.