SC Cleared Project Manager

Reading, England, United Kingdom

4/8/2025

Overview

you ready to lead large, complex, customer-facing projects and make a significant impact? As a Project Manager, you will deliver projects to time, cost, and quality criteria, operating within our established organisational delivery framework. This role is based at the customer site in Suffolk for three days a week, where you will collaborate closely with the customer and engineers.

Responsibilities

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Planning & Control
  
  
  

Create detailed project plans encompassing all deliverables & ensuring stakeholder buy-in. Manage change control using the appropriate processes.

• Leadership, Communication & Stakeholder Management
  
  
  

Create and sustain collaborative working relationships across customers, suppliers, and internal delivery teams, whilst defining clear roles and responsibilities.

• Financial Management
  
  
  

Maintaining a project finance tracker and utilizing change control for cost variation from original baselines. To ensure WBS codes match the project structure and are shared with the relevant stakeholders. Managing project billing milestones within the designated management reporting tool. Having a complete understanding of change control governance and procedures. Aware of the commercial impact of change can affect including cost ownership, milestone status, project margin, total contract value (TCV) and aligned resource.

• Project Governance & Methodology
  
  
  

Complies with Vodafone Project Delivery Framework methodology which is supported by industry project management standards such as PRINCE2.

• Risk & Issue Management
  
  
  

Establishing & maintaining a ‘Risk and Issue’ register, whilst identifying new risks and responses as well as mitigation strategies throughout the lifecycle of projects.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Leadership and Team working
  
  
  

Proven leadership and collaborative skills to manage cross functional teams and senior stakeholders.

• Self-motivated individual with good organisational, interpersonal, and influencing skills
• Effective Communication
  
  
  

Able to communicate in an accurate and concise manner to specific audiences, using varying tools and techniques,

• Planning and Control
  
  
  

Demonstrating a good understanding of common project management planning tools and methodologies

• Significant proven Project Management experience of managing large and complex projects.
• Business Skills & Attributes
  
  
  

Having delivery experience spanning a varied, as well as multidisciplinary project environment/. Experienced in the technology industry with expertise in the telecoms sector. Good knowledge &awareness of Vodafone products and service offering is advantageous.

Experience of working in a challenging customer facing service role and project environment.

Delivered projects into a regulated construction environment that requires a high level of Health & Safety when deploying solutions on site.

Requirements

• The Project Manager will be customer site based 3 days per week
• They will have strong governance skills including but not limited to delivery and billing milestone and customer facing experience.
• The customer location is Suffolk and as such the resource needs to be close to this location to avoid / mitigate additional expenses.
• Prince 2 Practitioner is essential
• SC Cleared
• CCNSG for onsite access (Engineering H&S site)
• Need to be confident operating in a construction environment (7 Point PPE, H&S associated)
• Desirable:
• Have delivered Project (s) that require a high level of Health & Safety when deploying solutions on site
• Have delivered projects into a regulated environment, e.g. Nuclear, MOD, etc…
• Have exposure to projects delivering technology into the construction industry.
• Agile experience
• Willingness to undertake additional safety training as required (e.g., SMSTS)