Senior Project Manager

Automation Consultants; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Flexible working hours

Electric Car Scheme

Pension Scheme

Cycle to Work

Onsite gym

Job summary

Automation Consultants in Reading, United Kingdom, seeks an experienced Project Manager to oversee delivery across consulting portfolios. You will drive iterative delivery, align cross-functional teams, and manage budgets to achieve high-value outcomes.

The role requires 7.5+ years of PM experience, strong Agile knowledge, and excellent communication. You will coach teams, advance PMO practices, and collaborate with leadership to identify growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent experience.
• 7.5+ years PM experience delivering complex projects.
• Proven ability to deliver on time and within budget.
• Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Aptitude for problem solving.
• PMO skills; experience with PMO.
• Strong understanding of Agile in hybrid environments.
• Budgeting and financial management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery alignment across AC's consulting portfolio.
• Facilitate story-mapping, sprint planning, and roadmap alignment workshops.
• Identify and resolve blockers, manage risks and dependencies.
• Architect automated dashboards for real-time program health and velocity metrics.
• Govern scope and change control; escalate as needed.
• Identify downstream value opportunities with leadership and Sales.
• Implement AI agents and workflow automation for reporting.
• Coach and enable Agile practices across teams.

Skills

Senior project management

Agile methods

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & finance

Problem solving

PMO experience

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical or business field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Atlassian stack

Job description

Reporting to the Head of Consultancy, this role is to provide strategic project management expertise to oversee the execution of our consultancy portfolios and delivery projects. You will ensure continuous, value-driven delivery through iterative frameworks, optimizing flow and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality strategic outcomes within target timeframes and on budget, whilst maintaining the expected high levels of quality.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Client & Delivery Alignment: Collaborate directly with consultants, customers, and cross-functional teams to steer high-value outcomes across AC's consulting portfolio.
• Expectation & Roadmap Management: Facilitate collaborative story-mapping, sprint planning, and roadmap alignment workshops with consultants and customers to establish clear definitions of success and iterative delivery milestones. Set clear expectations, timelines and measures for success.
• Risk & Impediment Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve systemic blockers, manage project risks, cross-team dependencies, and govern value-stream metrics (such as lead time, cycle time, and burn-up/burn-down dynamics) ensuring budget and project costs are not exceeded.
• Automated Stakeholder Reporting: Architect and deploy automated, AI-driven dashboards to provide real-time updates on program health, velocity, and value metrics for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Escalation Path Governance: Act as the primary escalation point for systemic organizational blockers, driving rapid resolution through collaborative problem-solving and lean governance practices. Actively manage scope and change control, raising change requests where work goes beyond what was agreed.
• Commercial Strategy & Growth: Identify downstream value opportunities within active engagements – such as agile phase extensions, managed services, or product evolutions – collaborating with Consultancy leadership and Sales to co-create iterative, value-focused proposals.
• Agentic AI & Workflow Automation: Implement autonomous AI agents and intelligent automation workflows to streamline program reporting, synthesize retrospective action items, and maximize overall delivery efficiency.
• Agile Coaching & Enablement: Train, coach, and mentor the consultancy team in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), building a culture of continuous learning and self-organizing high-performance teams.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent experience
• 7.5 years+ working within teams as a project manager.
• Demonstrable project management skills, especially of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Aptitude for problem solving.
• Knowledge of PMO skills and experience of working with a PMO.
• Solid understanding of Agile ways of working (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP etc) and experience delivering projects in Agile or hybrid environments.
• Strong budgeting and financial management skills.
• Confidence discussing technical delivery with consultants and customers.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of modern applications and the operations of IT infrastructure such as cloud e.g. AWS, GCloud and Azure; AI e.g. Claude, Rovo and OpenAI; DevOps/AIOps, containerization, ITSM, databases and networks would be advantageous.
• Experience managing projects in Jira and Confluence and the broader Atlassian stack.
• Qualifications in project management e.g., PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or qualifications from the Association for Project Management (APM) or the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Knowledge of and qualifications in ITIL

Salary and Benefits: £50,000 - £67,500 Per Annum

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans
• Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget.
• Flexible working hours and environment
• Access to the Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Top Spec Machine and access to virtual test lab
• Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.