Project Manager-Digital & IT

Description

This Project Manager role sits in the Digital & IT team at the company, based in Derby or Bristol. The team is hiring experienced project managers for complex, business-critical projects.

The company is in a multi-year transformation programme to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing business.

You will bring structure, pace and clarity to delivery, working with stakeholders, delivery teams and third-party partners. You will balance strong governance and financial control with pragmatism and a focus on realising benefits for the business.

Job category: Project Management. Posted 02 Nov 2026.

Responsibilities

• Own the planning, management and delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality, keeping scope and benefits under control.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, delivery teams and third-party partners so that everyone shares ownership of outcomes.
• Oversee third-party Statements of Work and deliverables, holding partners to account and checking outputs against agreed standards and acceptance criteria.
• Spot risks, issues, assumptions and decisions early, and escalate them clearly and constructively.
• Manage budgets, supplier performance, resource burn and reporting under PPMO processes, delivering value for money and cost control.
• Keep resource plans current, communicate present and future needs, and help inform decisions on capacity and capability.
• Work within standard delivery frameworks and apply PPMO standards consistently, without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Work in complex, ambiguous and changing settings, adjusting plans while keeping momentum on outcomes.
• Learn from lessons learned, drive continuous improvement, and raise efficiency, consistency and delivery quality.
• Build safety, regulatory and compliance considerations into project planning and execution.

Requirements

• Preferred: a strong record of delivering large, complex or transformational projects, ideally with several third parties and cross-functional teams.
• Preferred: the ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity, bringing clarity, focus and momentum to teams.
• Preferred: strong problem-solving, critical thinking and systems thinking.
• Preferred: experience managing third-party suppliers and contracts, with a focus on delivery performance, commercial outcomes and quality.
• Preferred: strong commercial judgement, including managing budgets, forecasting costs and supporting supplier negotiations.
• Preferred: excellent stakeholder management, relationship building and influencing skills, including in matrix environments.
• Preferred: a well-organised, accountable and delivery-focused approach, with the confidence to take ownership and see projects through.
• Preferred: a proactive communicator who escalates issues early and clearly to resolve them quickly and avoid surprises.
• Preferred: pragmatism, flexibility and resilience, with a collaborative and open way of working.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: application transformation and modernisation, including migrations, upgrades, rationalisation and cloud adoption.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: software and digital product development using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid methods.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: infrastructure and cloud transformation, including datacentre, server, storage, network and cloud platform work.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: end-user computing and workplace technology, including device refresh, Windows upgrades, VDI, M365 deployment, Intune, MECM, DHCP, mobile devices, device management and collaboration tools.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: identity and access management, including Active Directory, Entra ID, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), privileged access and role-based access control.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: cyber security and resilience, including vulnerability remediation, compliance, backup resilience, disaster recovery and security tooling deployment.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: large enterprise application deployments, working with third parties to define configuration, deploy and test.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: regulatory and compliance programmes such as CE+, CMMC, NIS2, ISO27001 and government security classifications.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: projects in military or defence organisations.
• Particularly interested in people who have delivered: projects that bring multiple technologies into new manufacturing facilities and offices.

Conditions

Full time.

Hybrid, based in Derby or Bristol, with a minimum of 3 days on site.

For some roles, a Full UK SC clearance without any conditions will be required.

Applications close 19 Nov 2026.

The company is committed to a respectful, inclusive and non-discriminatory workplace.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave.
• Retirement savings through the company Retirement Savings Trust.
• Group life assurance paying a lump sum if you die while employed by the company.
• Group income protection paying an income if you cannot work due to illness or injury.
• Share matching: buy one share and get one free.