Project Manager – Defence
Positiv Cohort Ltd
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Deliver the customer’s roadmap of projects, ensuring adherence to the customer’s end‑to‑end project management framework.
- Consolidate and document all core project elements including scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, issues, and quality considerations.
- Coordinate and collaborate with national and international project teams to support harmonised delivery approaches and shared timelines.
- Prepare, maintain, and update project schedules, ensuring activity dependencies and resource requirements are accurately reflected.
- Develop, implement, and maintain resource allocation plans that align with project portfolio demands and availability.
- Support integration between project outputs and release management deliverables, ensuring a smooth transition into business‑as‑usual support teams and readiness for production deployment.
- Manage agreed project budgets including tracking of actuals, forecasting, and supplier timesheet reconciliation.
- Ensure timely, accurate processing of project-related invoicing.
- Provide cost transparency and financial reporting aligned with customer standards.
- Produce project and programme status reporting for stakeholders at multiple levels of the organisation, following the customer’s standards (e.g., JIRA Plans on a Page / POAP).
- Support ongoing communication between internal teams, suppliers, and the customer’s Programme Delivery Manager (PDM).
- Participate in scheduled project checkpoints to review supplier performance to date, confirm forward demand planning for engineering or project services, evaluate capability and demand allocations across T&M services or fixed‑price work packages, and support blended delivery approaches when fixed‑price models are not feasible.
- Deliver services according to a demand schedule or project plan owned by the customer.
- Adapt to workload fluctuations based on project team requirements and forecasted demand.
- Participate in service requirement reviews led by the Supplier Programme Delivery Manager, who will align needs with the customer’s project contacts and offload teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience in project management within complex technical or engineering environments.
- Strong financial and schedule management capability.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, POAP dashboards, MS Project).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work flexibly across multiple workstreams and international teams.
- Knowledge of operational readiness and release/change management processes.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementfinancial managementschedule managementresource allocationrisk managementquality managementcost transparencyforecastingsupplier performance evaluationoperational readiness
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder engagementflexibilitycollaborationadaptabilityorganizational skillsproblem-solvingteamworkleadershipreporting