Senior Project Manager

About the Role

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Malvern (3-4 days onsite per week at Malvern or customer/supplier sites within a 30-mile radius)
Duration: 12 month contract (Maternity Cover)
Rate: Up to £1,000 per day (Inside IR35)
Clearance: Active eDV Clearance Required

Are you an experienced Senior Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex projects within National Security, Defence, or highly secure environments? Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of critical programmes for National Security customers, ensuring projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, quality, and customer satisfaction targets.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high-profile, secure environment, managing key customer relationships, driving project success, and supporting future business growth.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the delivery of one or more complex projects within a National Security environment.
• Managing project performance against agreed baselines including scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and delivery partners.
• Managing project governance, reporting, reviews, and assurance activities.
• Coordinating internal delivery teams, subcontractors, and external stakeholders.
• Maintaining accurate financial forecasts, resource plans, and delivery schedules.
• Identifying and resolving project risks, issues, and delivery challenges.
• Supporting business growth through customer engagement, follow-on opportunities, and bid activities.
• Providing clear and regular progress reporting to senior business stakeholders.
  

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects within Defence, National Security, Government, or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams and drive successful project outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, project teams, suppliers, and subcontractors simultaneously.
• Strong governance, risk, and project controls experience.
• Ability to negotiate, manage conflict, and drive decisions in challenging delivery environments.
• Demonstrable knowledge of project management best practice and methodologies.
• APM PMQ qualification (or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• Experience delivering projects involving technical complexity, demanding timescales, uncertainty, and risk.
  

Why apply?
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on impactful National Security programmes, delivering critical outcomes for high profile customers. If you possess active eDV clearance and are looking for your next senior contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

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