Hybrid Senior Consultant – Project Manager, Defence

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About the role

  • Senior Consultant – Project Manager responsible for delivering change across UK defence projects for DAS. Managing stakeholder engagement, risk, and project controls integration on time and budget.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Project Delivery: Manage projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring successful delivery within scope, time, and budget for our defence clients
  • Project Controls Integration: Apply knowledge of cost, risk, and planning to ensure robust project controls are in place to support decision making
  • Stakeholder & Communication Management: Build strong relationships, manage expectations, and resolve conflicts to maintain project momentum
  • Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Identify risks and challenges, develop mitigation strategies, and make informed decisions to keep projects on track
  • Commercial Awareness & Budget Management: Ensure financial oversight, cost control, and alignment with business objectives

Requirements

  • Project & Programme Lifecycle Knowledge: Strong theoretical and practical understanding of all stages of project and programme lifecycles
  • Project Controls Awareness: A working knowledge of cost, risk, and planning, and how they integrate to support and influence project delivery
  • Delivery Methodologies: Knowledge and experience of both Waterfall and Agile project delivery approaches
  • Education & Experience: Degree educated preferred but not required, with 5+ years’ project management experience
  • Professional Qualifications: Must hold recognised P3M qualifications, such as Axelos (PRINCE2 and PRINCE2 Agile), APM PMQ, or PMI PMP

Benefits

  • Attractive salary, reflective of skills and experience
  • Private pension, private healthcare for you and your immediate family, and private dentalcare
  • Death-in-service and income protection schemes
  • 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays, and additional days to work on environmental and community activities.
  • Discretionary office closure over Christmas
  • Personal carbon offset through company scheme
  • Access to professional and personal development platform, Udemy

Job title

Senior Consultant – Project Manager, Defence

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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