Engagement Manager (Software Engineering)

Codurance; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped training budget

Personal learning budget (Learnerbly)

Transparency: salary bands and company

Private medical cover & life assurance

Pension top-up: 4% to 8%

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Enhanced parental leave

EV and cycle-to-work scheme

Job summary

Codurance is seeking an Engagement Manager to join our teams in London or Manchester on a hybrid basis. You will manage stakeholder relationships, liaise with clients, and help shape product and technical strategy across multiple projects.

This role involves collaborating with business development and marketing to craft proposals, build internal delivery capabilities, and drive value for clients while supporting team growth and learning.

Qualifications

• Client engagement: build relationships with strategic stakeholders within the client, acting as an advisor and partner.
• Account development: identify opportunities to grow client relationships and drive commercial success.
• Project management: proven track record delivering technical or product strategy and managing risks.
• Experience coordinating multi-team dependencies on complex projects to achieve best results.
• Strong communication and leadership; facilitation skills are essential.
• Learning and growth mindset; enjoy coaching, mentoring and sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Engage with multiple projects to ensure client and Codurance teams are happy and delivering value.
• Collaborate with business development and marketing to contribute to proposals and growth.
• Help build internal engagement management and delivery capability and culture.

Skills

Client engagement

Account development

Project management

Team dependencies navigation

Communication & leadership

Learning & coaching

Job description

We are looking for an Engagement Manager who shares the same values of pragmatism, professionalism and transparency as us, to join and help build our teams in London or Manchester.

We support our clients in many ways, and you will have the opportunity to manage and liaise with stakeholders across a wide range of different client projects. This may be a greenfield project for a startup or helping to build a mission‑critical system for a large enterprise client. Your main responsibilities will include working across a number of projects to ensure that both the client and our people are happy and that we are delivering value effectively.

You will also be involved in areas across Codurance, including working with the business development and marketing teams to contribute to proposals, and assisting with building our internal engagement management/delivery capability and culture.

Location: We are open to this role being hybrid. Please note that we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

What about you?

• As someone performing this role, these are some of the things we are looking for:
• Client engagement: You are able to actively build relationships with strategic stakeholders within the client, acting as an advisor and partner in helping them identify and solve problems. You are good at helping people come up with a vision and helping them get aligned behind it
• Account Development: You are able to identify opportunities to further our relationships with clients to build the business and ensure commercial success
• Project management: You have a proven track record of executing and planning a technical or product strategy, and identifying and managing risks
• Experience working with dependencies between teams. We often work on projects with multiple teams working on a product and so it is important for our Engagement Managers to be able to understand how to get the best results out of these type of team set-ups, and also navigate any challenges that may arise
• Communication and leadership: Versatility in leadership and communication styles is key for a role like this. Facilitation skills are a key part of this job
• Learning and growth mindset: You enjoy helping teams and people to grow by coaching, mentoring and teaching. You like constantly learning and sharing that learning with others around you

• Uncapped training support – No fixed training budget: if it’s relevant and you share your learnings, we’ll cover the cost. We encourage continuous development at all levels.

• Personal learning budget - Use Learnerbly to access curated courses, books, and coaching resources to support your growth and progression.
• Transparency – From day one, you’ll have access to company financials and salary bandings, reflecting our commitment to openness and trust.
• Private medical cover & life assurance – Includes dental and optical. Life cover provides a lump-sum payment for additional peace of mind.
• Pension (4% top-up) and income protection - Option to choose from an employer pension top-up to 5% or a holiday voucher for the value of £1000 after 5 years of service. 8% pension top-up or a holiday voucher for the value of £2000 after 8 years of service
• Employee assistance program (EAP), including access to wellbeing support (counselling, therapy)
• Enhanced parental leave – Supporting you and your family with more time and flexibility when it matters most.
• Electric Vehicle and Cycle to work scheme
  

Everyone should have the right to bring their whole self to work and be celebrated for who they are. Our people are hired purely on their commitment to these values and their ambition to deliver outstanding results for our clients. Codurance is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.