Software Project Manager

Northrop Grumman; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is hiring a Delivery/Project Manager for the Cheltenham office. The role supports a delivery team within the United Kingdom, involves travel up to 10%, and is a full-time position.

Salary ranges from £100,000 to £130,000 per year, with responsibilities across budgeting, governance, and delivery excellence. The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, ensure contracting constraints are met, and drive continuous improvement while aligning to customer missions and government

Qualifications

• Proven delivery/project management experience with collaborative working.
• Recent IT/software/cyber project experience in government or similar bodies.
• Experience in Defence or Cyber environments.
• Familiar with PRINCE2, Agile PM (APM) and MSP.
• Role includes strategic input and influencing decisions.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas to diverse stakeholders, with UK clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial guidance, tasking, and advice across specialist deliveries.
• Manage financial aspects including risk and cost mitigation for delivery.
• Support project profitability and identify opportunities to increase it.
• Deliver projects within time, budget and quality for T&M and FP contracts.
• Support team performance from customer and commercial perspectives.
• Build and maintain a high-performing, motivated, collaborative team.
• Maintain delivery momentum and focus on current priorities.
• Encourage continuous delivery improvement and mentor agile/lean practices.
• Leverage customer relationships to identify new opportunities.
• Identify R&D opportunities and feed to Account Leads.
• Support organic growth within the project; work with SMEs on solutions.
• Contribute to company strategy via senior stakeholder relationships.
• Oversee project close-down, lessons learned, and artefact reuse.

Skills

Delivery/Project Management

PRINCE2

Agile PM (APM)

MSP

Government/defence domain

Stakeholder influence

Tools

PRINCE2

Agile

MSP

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience in Delivery/Project Management roles, with evidence of collaborative working.
• Recent experience supporting IT/Software/Cyber projects in Government or similar organisations.
• Experience in a Defence or Cyber environment.
• Working knowledge of PRINCE2, Agile Project Management (APM) and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
• A degree of responsibility and knowledge within the account, setting strategy and defining process, and influencing decisions.
• Skills in influencing and negotiation methods and techniques.
• An adaptive style with the ability to communicate technical ideas in simple terms to multiple stakeholders.
• Must hold and maintain UK Government clearances.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial guidance, tasking, understanding and advice across specialist deliveries relevant to the customers mission.
• Manage the financial aspects of projects, including risk and cost mitigation for delivery.
• Support project profitability and identify opportunities to increase profitability.
• Deliver projects within contracting constraints, including time, budget and quality for T&M and FP contracts.
• Support team performance from both a customer deliverable and commercial perspective.
• Build and maintain a high-performing team, ensuring motivation, collaboration and effective working.
• Maintain delivery momentum by keeping the team focused on current project priorities.
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Coach and mentor team members in the use of agile and lean tools and techniques.
• Use customer relationships to identify potential new opportunities.
• Identify and develop research and development opportunities and feed them to the Account Leads.
• Support organic growth within the allocated project.
• Work with technical subject matter experts to understand customer problems and recommend appropriate existing or new capabilities.
• Use knowledge of key senior stakeholder relationships to contribute to the company strategy.
• Manage project closedown, including performance reviews, lessons learned, and reuse or creation of artefacts to improve processes.

Technologies

• Support
• Project Manager

More

We are seeking a Delivery / Project Manager for our Cheltenham office to work within a delivery team. This is an operational role that requires knowledge of project and delivery management tools and techniques, along with an understanding of the customers domain to help improve ways of working and support solution development. In this role, we provide financial guidance, tasking, and advice across specialist deliveries aligned to the customers mission. The position is based in the United Kingdom-Cheltenham, is full time, and involves travel for 10% of the time. Salary is 55,700 to 83,500.

We are committed to building and retaining a diverse, inclusive workforce and encourage individuals from all backgrounds and abilities to apply.