Project Manager: eDV clearance only
IBM
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Job summary
IBM Consulting UK FutureNow is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex initiatives across public and private sector clients. You will drive projects from initiation through closure, managing scope, budgets and cross-functional teams in a hybrid delivery environment.
Role requires experience across full lifecycle, strong stakeholder management, and excellent communication skills. The role includes security screening, potential DV/SC considerations, and opportunities for professional growth
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering medium to large-scale projects.
- Full project lifecycle from initiation to closure.
- Strong stakeholder management with senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects from initiation and planning through to implementation and closure.
- Define scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans and milestones.
- Manage budgets, resources and forecasts with financial control.
- Identify, assess and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Establish governance, reporting and controls for projects.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and ownership of deliverables.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on progress, risks and issues.
- Facilitate meetings, workshops and governance forums as required.
- Ensure testing, implementation and transition activities are completed.
Skills
Education
Job description
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
- Lead projects from initiation and planning through to implementation and closure.
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules and milestones.
- Manage project budgets, resources and forecasts to ensure effective financial control.
- Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Establish effective project governance, reporting and controls.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure clear ownership of project activities and deliverables.
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, risks and issues.
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops and governance forums as required.
- Monitor project progress against agreed milestones, scope, budget and quality requirements.
- Manage changes to project scope through an appropriate change-control process.
- Ensure project documentation is maintained accurately and effectively.
- Work with suppliers and third-party partners where required, managing deliverables and performance.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and ways of working.
- Ensure appropriate testing, implementation and transition activities are completed.
- Lead project closure activities, including lessons learned and handover to operational teams.
- Ensure projects comply with relevant organisational policies, standards and governance requirements.
None
Bachelor's Degree
- Proven experience delivering medium to large-scale projects within a complex organisation or client environment.
- Strong experience across the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation and closure.
- Demonstrable experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary and/or geographically distributed teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in environments with ambiguity, competing priorities and changing requirements.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Strong understanding of project governance and delivery controls.
- Excellent problem-solving, planning and organisational skills.
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
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Project Manager: eDV clearance only
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