Project Manager UK

Location: UK – Hybrid working (Daventry, Northamptonshire & Work from Home)

Status: Full time permanent employee

Salary: Negotiable based on experience + Company Benefits

CAD-IT are currently looking for a highly motivated and experienced Project Manager to join our international Professional Services team.

What you’ll be doing:

The successful candidate will be a member of a global team with responsibility for leading and facilitating the scoping, design, and delivery of various projects in the UK, Europe and USA. You will report directly to the Head of Professional Services and be responsible for the following:

• Agree project objectives, benefits and plans for delivering these with your project stakeholders
• Define project tasks and manage resource requirements accordingly
• Maintain a detailed project plan
• Lead on the creation, ownership and maintenance of project documentation, for example, exception reports, risks and issues logs, user stories for Agile based projects
• Develop and manage project schedules and progress updates
• Provide direction and support to project teams
• Serve as a mentor to junior project managers, fostering professional growth and capability development
• Liaise with all key stakeholders including relevant internal departments and global teams
• Manage quality assurance
• Continuously monitor risks and issues
• Manage exceptions and changes in programmes and projects
• Provide input to relevant review meetings and represent the company as required
• Sharing best practices, offering guidance, and encouraging collaboration across teams
• Any other ad hoc management responsibilities as they arise

Your Skills and Experience:

• French and/or German language skills would be beneficial
• A proven and successful background in project delivery at a senior level, and a broad range of project management skills, eg PRINCE2, PMP, SCRUM
• Experience in sprint planning, backlog maintenance, facilitating daily stand-up calls, sprint reviews, capacity planning and sprint retrospectives
• Familiar with tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of working in an Aerospace environment or Engineering Environment
• A background, experience and/or qualifications in Solution Architecture would be beneficial
• Experience of managing Enterprise projects
• Strong experience of IT implementations
• Experience of collaborating closely and building excellent working relationships with customers, partners, and remote development teams
• Pro-active and pragmatic with regards to problem-solving

Why CAD-IT?

We are a software sales and consulting company focusing primarily on industrial aftermarket, Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Industrial IoT and Augmented Reality application in Service. We are global partners with Siemens providing Service Business Strategy consultancy and support, Industry 4.0 for Service, outsourced technical publications support and digital transformation to industries globally.

We are passionate about innovation and work collaboratively to give our very best to our staff and customers. Job satisfaction, wellbeing and career progression are top of our list for our employees. Joining our dynamic, ambitious and friendly team you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential and be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity and rewards innovation, hard work, integrity, and merit. We have an excellent Company Benefits package that focuses on employee reward and wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Stakeholder pension
• Hybrid working
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Long Service Award scheme
• Subsidised eye care
• Enhanced Maternity pay
• CAD-IT Mental Health & Wellbeing Support Group
• CAD-IT Culture Committee
• Companywide and team social events, plus more!