Senior Project Manager

Sepura; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering technology company in Cambridge is looking for a Senior Project Manager to oversee complex product development projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile communications, proven experience in project leadership, and excellent interpersonal skills. Responsibilities include managing project delivery, ensuring team morale, and achieving project objectives within established timeframes and budgets. Candidates with SC clearance or the ability to obtain it are preferred.

Benefits

Travel expenses covered

Opportunity for professional growth

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex product development projects.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Experience with software and hardware dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high visibility technology solutions within scope, time, budget, and quality.
• Implement project management tools and techniques to achieve project objectives.
• Communicate with stakeholders and manage project risks.

Skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related engineering discipline

Accredited project management certification

Tools

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Job description

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03rd September, 2025

Overview

The Senior Project Manager will be involved in the whole lifecycle of complex new product development projects and programmes from concept to volume production whilst managing risks, budgets, personnel, and objectives. As a Project Manager, you will have proven experience in managing complex projects ideally for mobile communications solutions or similar technical landscape in a cross-functional set up. Come and join Sepura Ltd at an exciting time of growth and progress your career within this innovative technology company, based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.

Role

• Be accountable for delivering high visibility technology solutions to scope, time, budget and quality working in partnership with Senior Technical Leads and Product Managers.
• Demonstrate strong organisational and leadership skills.
• Show willingness and capability to think laterally and pragmatically to find solutions to problems and remove roadblocks.
• Have confidence to lead others while understanding when to escalate and ask for wider stakeholder input.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skill (written and verbal) within all levels of a business
• Apply project management tools and techniques to achieve project objectives, meet schedule deadlines and budget targets.
• Ensure approaches/techniques are used for building high performing teams, maintaining good team morale and a high level of operating efficiency
• Demonstrates leadership by promoting trust, interaction, & shared commitment within teams
• Incorporate quality into the project delivery

The right candidate will be a highly motivated and industry proven individual with a technical background and experience of new product development, enjoy problem solving and be an excellent communicator.

Day to Day

Our customer base includes many different industries and markets around the world. Our complete TETRA and LTE solutions have been developed specifically for users in multiple sectors to face their critical communications challenges.

There is no such thing as a typical day here at Sepura. You will be supported by your manager and team, as well as collaborating with other departments across the business; Procurement, HW Engineering, SW Engineering, Conformance, Product Strategy, Sales, Finance, and Logistics.

Project management activities

• Applies advanced project management tools and techniques to achieve project objectives, meet schedule deadlines and budget targets
• Manage regular project meetings, ensuring accountability of team members and individuals in the wider business
• Ensure approaches/techniques are used for building high performing teams, maintaining good team morale and a high level of operating efficiency
• Ensure personal and team adherence to defined project management processes
• Capture and manage project risks and opportunities with appropriate planning of mitigations
• Communicate with stakeholders, ensuring an appropriate escalation of risks and issues
• Negotiate the availability of project resources with Resource Managers and other Project Managers, ensuring smoothed and optimised resource utilisation
• Demonstrates leadership by promoting trust, interaction, and shared commitment within teams
• Incorporates quality into the project delivery

This job may involve occasional travelling so the successful applicant will have a full, clean driving licence and their own car. Travel expenses will be paid.

SC Clearance or ability to obtain it is desirable

What you need to succeed

Must-haves

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering disciple, or equivalent experience
• Training in project management to a project manager level, with accredited certification through SAFe, IPMA, APM, Prince 2 or IPM or equivalent

Experience and Skills

• Proven experience leading development project teams in a multi-discipline environment on complex product development projects and programmes, using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience of projects which have both HW and SW dependencies.
• Experience managing and delivering s/w for embedded, platform and application product solutions in an Agile environment.
• Experience with development software configuration and continuous integration workflows
• Understanding of the interdependencies between software and hardware elements and how to successfully deliver integrated product solutions.
• Wider understanding of product development and realisation principles (Embedded software, Electronics,) and methodologies to facilitate best practice for product design and development.
• Documentation of project management processes and an ability to contribute to the optimisation, improvement, and maintenance of existing processes.
• Experience using Statement of Work and Procurement Specifications while engaging with external design and solution providers to meet technical, commercial and manufacturing requirements.
• Extensive experience of motivating teams and individuals to deliver.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering projects involving complex telecommunications solutions (including but not limited to TETRA / 5G / LTE)
• An understanding of and experience of projects that included regulatory approvals such as EMC and Safety
• Experience of working in a cost sensitive manufacturing environment and applying financial acumen and business cases to drive priorities.
• Reasonable understanding of P&Ls.
• Experience of multi-site / multi-cultural operation.