Project Manager

Spirax Sarco Limited; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday allowance

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Share Ownership Plan (optional)

Free onsite parking

Flexible benefits

Inclusion benefits program

Job summary

Spirax Sarco Limited is seeking an experienced IS Project Manager to lead a diverse portfolio of business and technology projects in Cheltenham. You will drive initiatives from initiation to completion, ensuring delivery against scope, budget, timeline and quality objectives, while coordinating cross-functional teams and external suppliers.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, governance, and experience with IT/IS projects across platforms, ERP/CRM and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex IT, IS or business transformation projects.
• Experience managing projects involving platforms, infrastructure, ERP or CRM.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall and Hybrid.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication at all levels.
• Demonstrated budget, governance and delivery-control experience.
• Strong organisational skills across multiple workstreams.
• Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience with third-party suppliers and external partners.
• Project management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP, APM or equivalent is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex IS and business change projects.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and resource requirements.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, risks, issues, dependencies and change controls.
• Coordinate technical and business workstreams to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business and external suppliers.
• Provide clear project reporting and updates to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Support effective project governance, quality assurance and compliance with delivery frameworks.
• Lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams, creating a positive delivery environment.
• Manage third-party suppliers and ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks to maintain momentum.

Skills

End-to-end project delivery

Stakeholder management

Budget and governance control

Experience with IT/IS or business tech

Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies

Leadership of cross-functional teams

Third-party supplier management

Reporting to senior governance forums

Organisational skills across multiple,

Education

PRINCE2 / PMP / APM or equivalent (desirable)

Job description

Project Manager

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The role:

We are looking for an experienced IS Project Manager to lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of business and technology projects. Working across multiple business functions and international operating companies, you'll be responsible for driving projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring successful delivery against scope, budget, timeline and quality objectives.

This is an excellent opportunity for a collaborative and organised project professional who enjoys working with a wide range of stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex IS and business change projects.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and resource requirements.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, risks, issues, dependencies and change controls.
• Coordinate technical and business workstreams to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, operating companies and external suppliers.
• Provide clear project reporting and updates to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Support effective project governance, quality assurance and compliance with established delivery frameworks.
• Lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams, creating a positive and collaborative delivery environment.
• Manage third-party suppliers and ensure contractual and delivery obligations are met.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks to maintain delivery momentum.

Your skills:

• Proven experience delivering complex IT, IS or business transformation projects.
• Experience managing projects involving platforms, infrastructure, ERP, CRM or business change initiatives.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall and Hybrid approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, project governance and delivery controls.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams simultaneously.
• Effective problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers and external delivery partners.
• Project management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP, APM or equivalent is desirable.
• A collaborative leadership style and passion for delivering successful outcomes.

Why join us?

You’ll be a proactive and adaptable project professional who can work effectively in a dynamic environment, balancing structure and governance with a practical, delivery-focused approach. You’ll enjoy building relationships, solving complex challenges and helping teams achieve shared goals while making a meaningful impact across a global organisation.

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutionsand are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems.Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Groupis a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.