Hybrid Project Manager – Defence

at Positiv Cohort Ltd

• Job title: Project Manager – Defence
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United Kingdom

About the role

• Project Manager responsible for delivering a portfolio of complex technical projects. Collaborating with teams and stakeholders to ensure adherence to project standards and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the customer’s roadmap of projects, ensuring adherence to the customer’s end‑to‑end project management framework.
• Consolidate and document all core project elements including scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, issues, and quality considerations.
• Coordinate and collaborate with national and international project teams to support harmonised delivery approaches and shared timelines.
• Prepare, maintain, and update project schedules, ensuring activity dependencies and resource requirements are accurately reflected.
• Develop, implement, and maintain resource allocation plans that align with project portfolio demands and availability.
• Support integration between project outputs and release management deliverables, ensuring a smooth transition into business‑as‑usual support teams and readiness for production deployment.
• Manage agreed project budgets including tracking of actuals, forecasting, and supplier timesheet reconciliation.
• Ensure timely, accurate processing of project-related invoicing.
• Provide cost transparency and financial reporting aligned with customer standards.
• Produce project and programme status reporting for stakeholders at multiple levels of the organisation, following the customer’s standards (e.g., JIRA Plans on a Page / POAP).
• Support ongoing communication between internal teams, suppliers, and the customer’s Programme Delivery Manager (PDM).
• Participate in scheduled project checkpoints to review supplier performance to date, confirm forward demand planning for engineering or project services, evaluate capability and demand allocations across T&M services or fixed‑price work packages, and support blended delivery approaches when fixed‑price models are not feasible.
• Deliver services according to a demand schedule or project plan owned by the customer.
• Adapt to workload fluctuations based on project team requirements and forecasted demand.
• Participate in service requirement reviews led by the Supplier Programme Delivery Manager, who will align needs with the customer’s project contacts and offload teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in project management within complex technical or engineering environments.
• Strong financial and schedule management capability.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, POAP dashboards, MS Project).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work flexibly across multiple workstreams and international teams.
• Knowledge of operational readiness and release/change management processes.