Senior Project Manager

CPS

Senior Project Manager leading complex client projects and engagements for CPS. Mentoring the PM team and ensuring high standards throughout the project lifecycle.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeReading • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead client engagements from pre-sale support through mobilisation, delivery, commercial control, handover and sustainment.
Own delivery quality, governance, scope, planning, RAID, change control, reporting, financial control and client acceptance.
Provide consultative leadership to clients and internal teams, ensuring delivery reflects client objectives, adoption needs and business change impacts.
Maintain strong commercial awareness, protecting project profitability while identifying opportunities to grow client relationships.
Improve and embed CPS Project Management standards across engagements.
Support resource utilisation, escalation handling, problem resolution and client issue management.
Mentor Project Managers, supporting objectives, appraisals, development plans, career roadmaps and succession planning.
Support PM Team Lead cover, annual leave planning, sickness cover and recruitment activity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deliver high-profile and complex client projects while supporting the PM Team Lead with team guidance, governance and development.
The Senior Project Manager sets the standard for delivery quality, commercial control, client confidence and PM team capability.
Confident, credible and commercially aware
Structured, thorough and quality-focused
Resilient, persistent and solutions-focused
Strong communicator and relationship builder
Able to influence without imposition
Quick to assimilate information and solve problems
End-to-end project lifecycle delivery experience in professional services, consulting or shared services.
Proven ability to manage multiple clients, projects, priorities and commercial commitments.
Strong financial control, including budget delivery, billing, forecasting and commercial performance.
Able to lead multi-disciplinary teams across CPS, clients and partners.
Experience delivering Microsoft and third-party technology projects, from design through release and sustainment.
Business analysis awareness, with the ability to shape, review and challenge requirements.
Experience of Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
Willingness to travel as required.
Senior Project Manager, Project Manager or Change Manager with experience delivering IT, digital or business transformation projects.
Background in an IT consultancy, professional services or client-facing delivery environment.
Experience managing multiple client engagements, project teams, budgets, risks, stakeholders and commercial expectations.
Strong understanding of project governance, delivery methodologies and technology implementation lifecycles.
Relevant professional qualifications such as APM, PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum certification.
Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

9 Day Fortnight (compression of 10 working days into 9 to be able to not work every other Friday)
PMI with Vitality Health
Medical Cash Plan with Medicash
Life Assurance (Death in Service) with YuLife
Employee Assistance Programme
25 days holiday (plus all Public Holidays) – increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
Your birthday day off
Access to Costco Membership
Salary Sacrifice Scheme, applicable to:
Workplace Pension https://www.nestpensions.org.uk/schemeweb/nest/about-pensions/why-save-with-a-workplace-pension.html
Employer contribution is currently 5.5% of qualifying salary (above legislated minimum and will increase if we achieve certain business targets)
Employee contribution is 4% of qualifying salary (legislated minimum but you can elect to increase)
EV Car Schemes
Discounted Gym Membership
Cycle Schemes
Home & Tech discounts for IKEA and Curry PC World
Holiday Exchange Scheme: buy up to 10 additional day per year and sell up to 5.
Quarterly and annual star performer awards – voted for by your peers and colleagues
Spot Awards of £25 and up, to instantly recognise excellence in you and your colleagues
Annual professional and personal training budget to support your PDP
Career Development Frameworks
Reward schemes that are designed to thank you for your hard work and make life a little more affordable.
Monthly employee experience/engagement survey
Quarterly company meetings
At least one, usually the kick-off in March/April, will typically be in-person.
The others are conducted as Town Halls.
Duration of in-person company meetings is generally 2 or 3 days and location changes every year.
Social/team building events, organised by our incredible Employee Forum
Regular, meaningful 1 to 1s
Long service recognition at 5, 10, 15, 20 years and onwards
Award winning culture Great Place to Work™ Nov 25 to Nov 26; Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Women™ 2025, Best Workplaces in Tech™ 2025

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementfinancial controlbudget deliverybillingforecastingAgileWaterfallbusiness analysisclient engagement managementchange management

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationrelationship buildinginfluencingproblem solvingresiliencecommercial awarenessquality focusstructured thinkingteam guidance

Certifications

APMPRINCE2Agile certificationScrum certificationdegree-level education