IT Project Manager

Babcock; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking an IT Project Manager to ensure structured project management processes for effective delivery of IT projects. The role involves assembling project plans, directing teams, and maintaining documentation. Candidates should have extensive project management experience and relevant certifications. This full-time position offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary with various benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive Project Management experience in complex environments.
• Experience managing in-house and third-party application delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Assemble project plans and monitor daily work efforts.
• Ensure compliance with Babcock Standard Technology framework.

Skills

Project Management

Agile

Communication

Education

Certified Scrum Master

PRINCE/APM

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64425

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a IT Project Manager.

The role
As a IT Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Ensuring the implementation of structured project management processes to ensure the effective delivery of business value from IT projects.

Day-to-day, you’ll assemble project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review and escalating functional, quality and timeline issues appropriately.

• Tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers
• Maintaining a full set of documentation as required by the IT Project Management Process for each project
• Coordinating communication with all areas of the business that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed
• Ensuring that through life support capabilities are key design considerations in all new business system solutions
• Ensuring solution designs are compliant with the Babcock Standard Technology framework

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with occasional travel being required and some overnight stays away from home.

Essential experience of the IT Project Manager:

• Experienced IT professional, focussed on being a part of a cost effective and efficient project delivery team
• Extensive demonstrable Project Management experience including: Awareness of the ALM (Applications Lifecycle Management) process and experience of managing both in-house application delivery teams as well as third parties
• Microsoft Project experience (Project Server preferred) and experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Software application Project Management
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of implementing and delivering large projects in complex environments within budget and timescales using structured Project Methodology

Qualifications for the IT Project Manager:

• Certified Scrum Master, Agile certified or equivalent
• Project Management qualification/ certification such as: PRINCE/APM or equivalent certification
  

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC)

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 27/05/2025

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