Senior Project Manager (12 Months FTC)

Your Mission 💪

What you’ll be doing 🎯

• 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.

What experience we think you’ll need 🚀

• 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