Technical project & programme managers Work, Jobs in Appleton, Chs (with Salaries)

Senior Project Manager
Contechs Consulting Limited —Crewe
- Analysis skills
- Mentoring
- Business
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DigiTEC Project Manager
The Manchester College —Manchester
- £32,931 - £47,339 a year
- Full-time
- Travel
- Organisational skills
- In-person
- Annual leave
- Work from home
2d
Associate Technical Delivery Manager
Radius Limited —Crewe
- Full-time
- Project management
- Agile
- Employee assistance programme
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Transition Programme Director
Capgemini —Manchester
- Hybrid work
- Management
Senior IT Project Manager
Core —Manchester
- Full-time
- Remote
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Work from home
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Implementation & Training Lead
Alfred H Knight Group —Liverpool
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Laboratory experience
- Computer networking
- Employee assistance programme
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Portfolio Manager - Digital Customer Experience
The Very Group —Liverpool
- £10,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Agile
- Employee discount
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Project Manager (Client Delivery)
Verisk —Manchester
- Full-time
- Financial services
- AI
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Life insurance
7d
Cloud Integration Solutions Manager
M3R Sync Technologies Ltd. —Manchester
- £86,000 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- AWS
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Flexitime
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Senior SAP Project Manager
The Config Team —Manchester
- Full-time
- Remote
- PMP
- ERP systems
- Project management
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Acceptance To Run Manager
Capgemini —Manchester
- Hybrid work
- Management
- AWS
- Presentation skills
Technical Delivery Manager (TDM)
Avalara —Salford
- Team management
- Organisational skills
- AI
- Annual leave
7d
Cleared Permanent Opportunities – Cheltenham, London, Manchester
Turner & Townsend —Manchester
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
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Senior Scrum Master
Northrop Grumman —Manchester
- £50,000 - £70,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- Mentoring
- Organisational skills
14d
Engineering Lead
Naturecan —Stockport
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AWS
- JavaScript
- Software development
- Employee discount
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Digital Information Management Lead
AECOM —Manchester
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Sales
- Engineering
- Master's degree
Delivery Manager - Ecommerce Platform
THG Ingenuity —Manchester
- Communication skills
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Development Director II
Electronic Arts —Manchester
- Hybrid work
- Product management
- AI
- Leadership
- Annual leave
Vice President, Scrum Leader
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation —Manchester
- Full-time
- Continuous improvement
- Conflict management
- Leadership
2d
Senior Delivery Manager- Liverpool
FDM Group —Liverpool
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- Agile
- Leadership
- Annual leave

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Senior Project Manager

Contechs Consulting Limited
Crewe

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Job details

Fixed term contract
13 days ago

Qualifications

Investment
Technical project or programme management experience
Programme management
Stakeholder liaison
Mentoring junior staff
Analysis skills
ITIL
Risk management
Mentoring
Systems engineering
Overseeing budgeting and forecasting
Scrum
Project schedule tracking
Project management software
Professional development mentoring
Business
Project management experience
Communication skills
Project cost estimation
PRINCE2 Certification

Full job description

Job details

Posted 23 July 2026

Salary Market related

LocationCrewe

Job type Contract

Discipline Professional Services

Reference116472

Job description

Position Title: Senior Project Manager

Duration: Contract

Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Main Goals and Objectives:

The role is responsible for leading and managing significant/multiple IT Projects and Programmes.
They have responsibility for creating and maintaining good customer relationships with the project teams and sponsors and to make sure that the needs of the business operations are in place for the launch of the projects.
The job holder manages, plans, coordinates, controls and steers the overall Programme and associated project portfolio according to the process requirements.

Main Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Setup:

Prepare and present resource estimates and all other related investment requirements (including for year 1 operations) for large scale IT projects and programmes.
Create related budget spend forecasts.
Ensure the business case is valid and approved before project commencement.
Raise any required budget release requests and support investment planning and management as required (e.g. planning round for investment).
Identify internal and external project dependencies and prepare inclusive work breakdown structure (WBS).
Turn the WBS into a schedule with the critical path identified.
Trigger procurement process and onboard project team members as appropriate, coordinate with the relevant teams to ensure the necessary resources to deliver the assigned projects are committed.
Determine the methodology to apply in accordance with the established Client project management framework.

Project Execution (Monitoring and Controlling):

(Planning and coordination of all technical requirements and any associated conflicts)
Lead active risk and issues management, ensuring that risks and issues are owned, actioned and escalated as required.
Manage any change that materially alters the project scope or plan and ensure suitable decision forums are used to agree these.
Monitor and track project expenditure.
Maintain a watch on project benefits realisation and check that the business case remains valid though the project phases.
Lead preparation and delivery of project gateways.
Validate technical solution designs to ensure they will meet business need.

Project Communication:

Build relationship with stakeholders and project team members.
Prepare and share regular project status updates and reports.
Setup and run required project steering committees.
Setup and run required project team meetings / forums.

Project Closure:

Ensure that projects are suitably closed down once the change is implemented.
Undertake lessons learnt review.
Prepare benefits / outcome delivery review
Ensure project artefacts are filed as appropriate and that configuration items that exist beyond the project are in the correct location

Develop Knowledge & Capability:

Builds knowledge of project management frameworks, methods and techniques and contributes to the Clients' Project Management practice led initiatives.
Supports Team Lead in providing mentoring and knowledge transfer to less experienced Project Managers.
Proactively contributes to supporting & developing other Project Managers (inside and outside of project assignments).
Provides constructive feedback to other Project Managers.
Provides other Project Managers with advice on best practice analysis approaches & techniques (in alignment with Client standards), coaches and mentors less experienced Project Managers.
Shares knowledge with peers where appropriate
Demonstrates understanding of the Clients' corporate strategy.
Proactively builds knowledge of the Clients' business domains.
Proactively build knowledge of automotive industry.
Demonstrates full understanding of established the Clients' IT frameworks pertaining to role.

Skills & Experience:

Demonstrable experience in an IT related application or technical area with supervisory or management control over projects and resources.
Programme Management experience
Mentoring others
Must be able to organise and manage workload to reflect company priorities.
Evidence of successful delivery of strategic projects with targets.
Evidence of interpersonal skills appropriate to the role, good communication and influencing skills.
Analytical and decision making skills.
Wide-ranging business process knowledge or the ability to gain the required knowledge quickly.
Experience of complete project life cycles from project initiation to implementation.
ITIL awareness (IT Infrastructure Library: a set of comprehensive and inter-related codes of practice, useful to achieving the efficient support and delivery of high quality, cost effective IT services.)
Knowledge of the VW Group IT processes (e.g. IT PEP-IT Systems Engineering Process.)
Knowledge of VW Group systems is preferred but not essential.

Practical & Technical Knowledge:

Project Management (inc. PRINCE2)
SCRUM & Agile methodologies
Project Management Software
Programme Management Qualifications

Qualifications:

Degree (or Diploma) Computing/Business Administration related subject or equivalent.
Advanced Project Management (e.g. Prince2 higher).
Agile/SAFe accreditation

Why work through Contechs?

Contechs is a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology and Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employees, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.

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