ICT Project Manager

Your responsibilities as an ICT Project Manager will include:

• Delivering cost-effective, high-quality ICT projects end-to-end using structured project management methodologies and gateway governance.
• Managing up to three concurrent technical projects across 11 international sites, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, budget, and schedules.
• Collaborating with commercial stakeholders and technical design leads to gather requirements, build business cases, and produce detailed Project Definition Documents (PDDs).
• Directing cross-functional project teams, onshore and offshore technical resources, and outsourced development partners.
• Tracking project KPIs, monitoring actuals against forecast spend, and providing transparent reporting to senior management and directors.
• Overseeing technical implementation into live production environments, ensuring robust test strategies, quality standards, and compliance with J-SOX and TISAX security guidelines.
• Conducting post-implementation reviews, managing warranty periods, and embedding continuous improvements into standard ICT processes.
• Evaluating and negotiating with external suppliers of ICT services, software tools, and infrastructure.

• A minimum of five years of proven IT project management experience delivering software and commercial development projects involving outsourced development partners.
• A strong technical background with at least five years of commercial development experience across analysis, design, coding, and implementation.
• Demonstrable expertise in Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), as well as internal and cloud integration solutions.
• Formal project management methodology credentials or practical experience in PRINCE2 or an equivalent framework.
• Working knowledge of database design, systems architecture, and modern IT collaboration and planning software.
• Proven leadership capability to motivate multi-disciplinary onshore and remote offshore teams across different time zones.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to negotiate technical deliverables with senior business managers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to undertake occasional UK and international travel across global sites as required.

The benefits included with this role are:

• Competitive basic salary reflecting experience and technical capability.
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of national Bank Holidays)
• A defined contribution pension scheme (provided by Standard Life)
• Death in service
• Free parking
• Opportunity to lead high-value international projects across 11operating sites.
• Professional career development within an industry-leading global engineering brand.