Senior Technical Project Manager

Wrightbus; Ballymena; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Life Insurance

Medicash scheme

Discount with local businesses

Free car parking

Canteen

Career progression

Professional development

Flexitime

Job summary

Wrightbus is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead technical project delivery across the Wrightbus group. The role reports to the CIO and sits within the Office of the CTO, with initial focus on the Connected Vehicle programme to enable ACP, Telematics and Uptime 365, and related technology initiatives.

You will own delivery end-to-end, coordinate across engineering, data and digital teams, manage budgets and resources, and drive adoption of new systems while setting standards for

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in a technical, IT, data or business discipline.
• 5+ years managing technical projects in IT, data or digital environments.
• Hands-on end-to-end delivery experience and driving change to adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, executive and technical audiences.
• Full project-management toolkit: planning, scheduling, budgets, risk / issue and dependency management, governance and reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to engage with engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead Connected Vehicle programme end-to-end across engineering, data and digital.
• Own technology projects across Data, Digital and IT, including budgeting and resourcing.
• Align stakeholders to a shared plan and present executive options.
• Drive adoption by removing blockers and escalating decisions when needed.
• Utilize AI tooling to accelerate planning and reporting and set responsible use standards.

Skills

Technical project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Delivery experience

Governance & reporting

Education

Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in a technical, IT, data or business discipline

Job description

“We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.”

All applicants must hold valid right to work in the UK. Please be aware that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future.

Wrightbus are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager To lead technical project delivery for Wrightbus and the wider group. The role reports officially to the CIO and matrixes into the Office of the CTO. Its initial focus is to pick up the Connected Vehicle programme to enable ACP (encompassing Telematics / Uptime 365), alongside other technology project initiatives — owning delivery from scope through to embedded change. It runs multiple initiatives concurrently, sets the standards and governance for how technical change is delivered, and helps anchor a project-management capability that will grow toward a group PMO.

Key Responsibilities

• Pick up and drive the Connected Vehicle programme to enable ACP (encompassing Telematics / Uptime 365), coordinating the workstreams end to end across engineering, data and digital; and manage other technology project initiatives concurrently — including Salesforce harmonisation with the Salesforce administrator, plus ad‑hoc projects.
• Own technical projects and programmes end to end across the Data, Digital and IT functions and group‑wide technology programmes — scoping, planning, budgeting, resourcing, risk / issue and dependency management, governance and reporting.
• Align business, executive and technical stakeholders behind a shared plan; translate technical detail into clear executive options; surface trade‐offs and decisions early.
• Drive change through to adoption — identify and remove blockers and escalation constructively when a decision is needed.
• Use AI tooling (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) to accelerate planning, documentation, analysis and reporting, and set the standard for responsible use in delivery.

Requirements:

• Degree‑level education or equivalent professional experience in a technical, IT, data or business discipline.
• 5+ years managing technical projects in an IT, data or digital environment, including several running concurrently.
• Track record of hands‑on, end‑to‑end delivery and of driving change through to adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, executive and technical audiences.
• Full project‑management toolkit: planning, scheduling, budgets, risk / issue and dependency management, governance and reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, flexing between technical and executive audiences.
• Credible engaging with engineers and technical teams.

The Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus
• Life Insurance
• Medicash scheme
• Discount with local businesses e.g. Galgorm Spa Resort and McAtamney’s.
• Free car parking
• Canteen
• Career progression
• Professional development
• Flexitime
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