Project Manager - Cheltenham and Herefordshire

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager to join our team. 

Join our team and play a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. 

As an Agile Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing agile projects using an iterative approach to delivery. 

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources to ensure successful project delivery. 

If you’re passionate about delivering capability and contributing to project success, we’d love to hear from you! 

This role is split between Cheltenham and Herefordshire, with the expectation of 3 days a week spent on the customer site (Herefordshire) and 1 day a week in our Cheltenham office. 

A willingness to travel overseas is essential and required within this role.

You will need a focus on people, you will need to be comfortable embracing our values, standards and our ways of working: 

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery. 

• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others. 

• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills and effective questioning/listening skills. Able to communicate with confidence at higher and lower levels. 

• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from providing advice on improving client’s delivery to ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to assist the team and customer in delivery. 

• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value. 

• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges. 

• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution. 

• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training. 

• Integrity - Promote a high professional standard at all times. 

Responsibilities: 

• Project management- The ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including forecasting, change management and risk management. 

• Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources. 

• Foster open communication across teams to identify cross-team development dependencies and risks early on. 

• Experience of working in a project delivery environment with a sound understanding of structured and agile methodologies and applying them in separate situations (e.g. APMP, MSP, Jira, Tempo, Scrum). 

• Problem solving- The ability to identify problems collaboratively and develop actions/solutions, communicating both to key stakeholders and presenting information through reports, dashboards and slides as appropriate. 

• Commercial awareness- Providing contract management, supplier management. 

• Market experience working within the UK Defence & Security sector is advantageous. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields preferred or equivalent experience. 

• Relevant certifications (e.g., APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification) 

• Strong project management, risk management, and procurement management skills. 

• Familiarity with the Scrum, Shape Up and Kanban profiles and methodologies. 

Clearance Requirement: 

• SC willing to obtain DV immediately 

What can we offer in return?

SiXworks offers a unique work culture around our core principles Agility, Security, Innovation, Quality, Collaboration and Inclusivity. Together, these six principles form SiXworks' NORTH STAR, guiding the organisation towards success. This is reflected in the raft of benefits available to all our employees.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.


• Private Medical Insurance.


• Life Assurance Scheme


• Contributory pension scheme


• Professional Development opportunities


• Cycle to Work scheme.


• Perks at Work scheme.


• Contributory company pension.


• Discretionary Bonus scheme.


• Secure, on-site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities.


• Casual dress.


• Free hot and cold drinks in our own, modern kitchen/break-out.

A word on UK Security Clearance

Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must be a UK sole national and either have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.

More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here:

United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

SiXworks is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organisation. SiXworks will be the hiring entity.  By proceeding with this application, you understand that SiXworks will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: https://www.ibm.com/privacy

Notice

SiXworks recognises the benefits of Reserve service to Country, Company and individual.

We support Reservists and actively encourage them to apply.

If you’re ready to contribute to dynamic projects and grow your career in agile project management, apply today!