Project Manager

SiXworks; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of secure digital solutions is seeking a motivated Agile Project Manager based in Farnborough, UK. The role involves managing agile projects, collaborating with teams, and ensuring successful delivery while maintaining a focus on customer value. Candidates should have a relevant degree and certifications. This position offers opportunities for professional development and a range of attractive benefits including 25 days leave and private medical insurance.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance Scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Professional Development opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Perks at Work scheme

Contributory company pension

Discretionary Bonus scheme

Secure on-site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field preferred.
• Experience in project management with agile methodologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of project delivery.
• Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams.
• Foster communication to identify development dependencies.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Project management

Risk management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Commercial awareness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management

Relevant certifications (APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification)

Tools

Jira

Scrum

Tempo

Job description

Project Manager (Agile Project Manager)

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager to join our team.

Join our team and play a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head‑on.

As an Agile Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing agile projects using an iterative approach to delivery.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, vendors, and business resources to ensure successful project delivery.

If you’re passionate about delivering capability and contributing to project success, we’d love to hear from you!

Occasional travel overseas is required for this position.

You will need a focus on people, you will need to be comfortable embracing our values, standards and our ways of working:

Core Values and Expectations

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery.
• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others.
• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills and effective questioning/listening skills. Able to communicate with confidence at higher and lower levels.
• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from providing advice on improving client’s delivery to ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to assist the team and customer in delivery.
• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value.
• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges.
• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution.
• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training.
• Integrity - Promote a high professional standard at all times.

Responsibilities

• Project management - The ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including forecasting, change management and risk management.
• Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources.
• Foster open communication across teams to identify cross‑team development dependencies and risks early on.
• Experience of working in a project delivery environment with a sound understanding of structured and agile methodologies and applying them in separate situations (e.g. APMP, MSP, Jira, Tempo, Scrum).
• Problem solving - The ability to identify problems collaboratively and develop actions/solutions, communicating both to key stakeholders and presenting information through reports, dashboards and slides as appropriate.
• Commercial awareness - Providing contract management, supplier management.
• Market experience working within the UK Defence & Security sector is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields preferred or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification)
• Strong project management, risk management, and procurement management skills.
• Familiarity with the Scrum, Shape Up and Kanban profiles and methodologies.

About SiXworks

SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail‑safe‑fast cutting‑edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments. We are unified in our mission to accelerate innovation and adoption of secure, digital technology to improve the operational agility of Defence and National Security. This is an exciting time for us, we have ambitious plans for continued growth and development, and we are seeking to add brilliant, experienced, motivated, and passionate people to our team to work with us on this journey.

Why join SiXworks?

Our team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of digital innovation!

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Professional Development opportunities.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Perks at Work scheme.
• Contributory company pension
• Discretionary Bonus scheme.
• Secure, on‑site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities.

A word on UK Security Clearance

Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.

More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Security and Privacy Information

SiXworks is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organisation. SiXworks will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application, you understand that SiXworks will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: https://www.ibm.com/privacy

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