
Senior Project Manager – 12 Months FTC
boxxe
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newquay • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead end‑to‑end delivery of a large, complex SDA project for a key customer.
- Plan and manage project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, and governance.
- Oversee project financials, including forecasting, billing milestones, and budget adherence.
- Lead multi‑disciplinary project teams, including consultants, engineers, coordinators, partners, and third parties.
- Act as the primary customer and stakeholder contact, providing clear, timely updates and managing expectations.
- Manage project changes, risks, and issues through structured controls, RAID logs, and mitigation actions.
- Produce and maintain all required project documentation in line with our business methodology.
- Prepare and present regular status, financial, and risk reports to senior management.
- Drive effective communication across all internal and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate project meetings, reviews, and checkpoints to ensure alignment and progress.
- Ensure accurate progress tracking, reporting, and revenue/resource forecasting.
- Maintain logs, reports, and documentation on the agreed shared platform.
- Coordinate internal and external delivery resources to ensure seamless execution.
- Mentor and support project team members to foster collaboration and performance.
- Identify and present well‑considered solutions, options, and impacts for decision‑making.
- Proactively resolve project challenges and escalate when necessary.
- Support continuous improvement and adopt changes that enhance PMO processes.
Requirements
- Proven experience of delivering and leading complex and diverse IT projects and programmes to paying customers to time, cost and quality
- Knowledge of service management best practices
- Have a good command of all MS Office applications, particularly MS Word and MS Excel for report generation
- Previous project manager experience within a fast-paced IT technology environment
- Experience taking full accountability for planning, structuring, leading, financial management of all assigned projects
- Experience with taking full responsibility for managing entire project teams
- Experience of managing projects with budgets of £2 million+
- Networking, infrastructure, application deployment and IT experience
- Experience interacting with stakeholders at all levels courteously and efficiently to provide information and resolve problems
- Experience with the creation of project documentation
- Experience with the presentation and communication of project documentation to board level
- Strong understanding of the role of governance and ability to tailor to suit the requirements of the project / customer
- Have a strong understanding of the core technical competencies within CAE
Benefits
- Sustainability as a core value
- Commitment to reducing environmental impact
- Encouraging inclusive working environments
- Ethical trading
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementfinancial managementrisk managementservice managementproject documentationstakeholder managementnetworkinginfrastructureapplication deploymentgovernance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingmentoringorganizational skillstime managementcustomer serviceadaptabilitypresentation skills