Project Manager - National Security

Fortice Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortice Ltd is seeking a Project Manager to deliver meaningful NatSec initiatives by uniting multidisciplinary teams from business change, analysis, and software development.

You’ll lead projects from initiation through delivery, managing plans, budgets, risks and milestones while building strong relationships with clients and senior stakeholders. Experience with Agile and Waterfall, and tools like Jira, Confluence or MS Project, plus a recognised PM qualification, are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects end-to-end, ideally in the NatSec domain.
• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Confident managing client relationships and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence or MS Project.
• PM qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMQ, ideally with Agile certification.
• Experience working in a technical or technology-led environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through the full delivery lifecycle, from planning and governance to implementation and acceptance.
• Managing project plans, budgets, risks, dependencies and delivery milestones.
• Building trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders at all levels.
• Bringing together teams across business change, business analysis, communications and software development.
• Keeping delivery on track while ensuring projects achieve the outcomes and benefits they were designed to deliver.

Skills

End-to-end delivery

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Delivery governance

Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PMQ

Agile certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

Job description

An opportunity to manage meaningful projects, bring multidisciplinary teams together and turn complex client requirements in the NatSec domain into real outcomes.

Working at the intersection of technology, business change and client delivery, you’ll lead projects from initiation through to delivery.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading projects through the full delivery lifecycle, from planning and governance to implementation and acceptance.
• Managing project plans, budgets, risks, dependencies and delivery milestones.
• Building trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders at all levels.
• Bringing together teams across business change, business analysis, communications and software development.
• Keeping delivery on track while ensuring projects achieve the outcomes and benefits they were designed to deliver.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience delivering projects end-to-end, ideally in the NatSec domain.
• An understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Confidence managing client relationships and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence or MS Project.
• A recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMQ, ideally alongside an Agile certification.
• Experience working in a technical or technology-led environment.

If you’re a Project Manager who can bring structure to complexity, build strong relationships and keep teams focused on delivery, I’d be keen to have a conversation.

Security Clearance criteria:

eDV clearance would be ideal; MOD DV will be considered too.