Project Manager: eDV clearance only

IBM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Maternity/paternity leave

25 days holiday

Private medical

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a senior project manager to lead complex, end-to-end projects across the public and private sectors. You will oversee scope, timelines, budgets and cross-functional teams, ensuring governance, risk management and successful delivery from initiation through closure.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder engagement and adaptability to Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery models.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering medium to large-scale projects.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation to closure.
• Define scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans and milestones.
• Manage budgets, resources and forecasts.
• Identify, assess and manage risks, issues, dependencies.
• Establish governance, reporting and controls.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and owner clarity.
• Maintain stakeholder updates on progress and risks.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops and governance forums.
• Ensure testing, implementation and handover to operations.
• Lead project closure and lessons learned.
• Ensure compliance with policies and governance.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Facilitation

Presentations

Risk management

Hybrid delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree

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.

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.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

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).