Project Manager: eDV clearance only

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Life assurance

Salary sacrifice pension

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, delivering transformative programmes across public and private sectors in the UK. You will lead projects from initiation to closure, govern budgets, and coordinate cross-functional teams while engaging senior stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.

The role emphasizes strong project governance, risk management, and continuous improvement within a flexible, inclusive environment that supports learning and career

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering medium to large-scale projects.
• Strong experience across full project lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation and planning through to implementation and closure.
• Define scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Manage budgets, resources and forecasts with financial control.
• Identify, assess and manage risks, issues, dependencies and governance.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders with clear ownership.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Risk management

Agile and hybrid delivery

Planning and governance

Leadership

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you--supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

Your role and responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation and planning through to implementation and closure.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Manage project budgets, resources and forecasts to ensure effective financial control.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Establish effective project governance, reporting and controls.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure clear ownership of project activities and deliverables.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, risks and issues.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops and governance forums as required.
• Monitor project progress against agreed milestones, scope, budget and quality requirements.
• Manage changes to project scope through an appropriate change-control process.
• Ensure project documentation is maintained accurately and effectively.
• Work with suppliers and third-party partners where required, managing deliverables and performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and ways of working.
• Ensure appropriate testing, implementation and transition activities are completed.
• Lead project closure activities, including lessons learned and handover to operational teams.
• Ensure projects comply with relevant organisational policies, standards and governance requirements.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience delivering medium to large-scale projects within a complex organisation or client environment.
• Strong experience across the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation and closure.
• Demonstrable experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary and/or geographically distributed teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in environments with ambiguity, competing priorities and changing requirements.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong understanding of project governance and delivery controls.
• Excellent problem-solving, planning and organisational skills.

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.