project manager

Aveva Group Plc; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking an experienced project manager to support CPI activities within Finance Operations, driving assessment, prioritisation and delivery of improvement initiatives. The role requires strong process documentation, governance, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position is hybrid with roughly 50% on-site in the UK; some roles may be fully office-based or remote depending on the work. You will coordinate with senior stakeholders and process owners.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading CPI or continuous improvement projects.
• Strong knowledge of process documentation.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Finance processes and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: ensure CPI activities have clear requirements, scope, resources, budget and a detailed plan.
• Project Governance: monitor progress, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and escalate when needed.
• Stakeholder Management: engage with senior leaders and cross-functional teams; ensure alignment.
• Process Improvement: evaluate change requests; maintain PI logs with audit trails and sign-off.
• Project Delivery: ensure execution and delivery to deadlines with deployment plans and training needs.
• Change Management: support adoption and smooth CPI implementation.
• KIPs: collect data from Process Leads, update SharePoint, analyse outputs, and publish summaries.

Skills

Project management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Analytical thinking

Communication

Continuous improvement

Tools

MS Project Online

MS Planner

Power BI

SharePoint

Power Automate

Job description

We are seeking an experienced project manager with knowledge of process documentation to support the demand management governance around our continuous process improvement (CPI) activities and manage other projects across Finance Operations. The project manager will play a key role in helping to ensure all CPI opportunities are properly assessed; prioritised; managed through solutioning; and then delivered successfully per the agreed deployment plan. Responsibility will be across all key pillars of improvement, including people, data, process, and technology. Subject to bandwidth, this role will also manage other prioritised projects requiring cross-team support.

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.

• Project Management: Ensure the CPI activities and assigned projects have clear requirements, defined scope, resources, budget (where required) and a detailed plan to deliver to the in alignment with the Finance Operations strategic goals and prioritises.
• Project Governance: Support the management of the CPI governance to monitor project progress, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and make timely decisions. Ensuring roles and responsibilities, decision‑making processes, and escalation paths are adhered to.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at various levels, including senior leadership, function heads, and cross‑functional teams. Build strong relationships and establish effective communication channels. Understand stakeholder needs, expectations, and concerns. Ensure stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Process Improvement: Supporting the Process Owners and Process Analysts, to properly evaluate all new requests for change and effectively communicate and engage with the originator and other interested parties. Working with Process Improvement team to ensure MS Planners and the PI Log are regularly maintained and can be communicated as required to all stakeholders. All items have a clear audit trail and sign off process to confirm outcomes have been agreed and achieved.
• Project Delivery: Working with the solution delivery teams to ensure the execution and delivery of all CPI activities and assigned projects to agreed deadlines. Ensuring that we have appropriate deployment plans (MS Projects), change impact assessments, training needs, Communications and process documentation updated accordingly.
• Change Management: Support the change management strategies defined to drive adoption and ensure smooth transitions during CPI implementation.
• KIPs (Key Performance Indicators): Managing the monthly collection of data from Process Leads for KIPs, updating the SharePoint data, analyse the output, manage the summaries with the process leads and publish. Project management methods, tools and implementation.
• Analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Additional MS Office applications – MS Project Online and MS Planner.
• Knowledge of end‑to‑end Finance Processes and KPIs.
• Experience in MS Office applications – SharePoint, Power Automate and Power BI.
• Knowledge of Process Documentation – SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
• Process Owners.
• Process Improvement Subject Matter Exerts.

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third‑party personal data may involve additional background check criteria. AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.