Senior Project Manager

Bristol

UK - United Kingdom

Your role

Bring your curiosity to work as our next Senior Project Manager. In this role, your mission is to be accountable for the delivery of assigned projects within a Programme, ensuring execution aligns to portfolio priorities, governance, and the Product Commercialisation Process (PCP). You will contribute directly to how we create high‑quality products and solutions for our customers. You will report to the Programme Manager.

Your day-to-day

• Deliver assigned projects in alignment with Programme objectives, portfolio priorities, and PCP governance.
• Project(s) complexity may include platform development, first of kind technologies, multi-site projects, and/or high-risk/strategic developments.
• Act as the primary delivery lead for project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality
• Translate programme direction and requirements into executable project plans and WBS structures
• Manage day-to-day execution of cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliverables
• Maintain and manage RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), ensuring timely mitigation and escalation to Programme Manager
• Provide clear, consistent, and accurate project reporting into Programme governance forums (e.g. CPR)
• Manage project-level change control in line with programme governance and ensure alignment to evolving requirements
• Identify and communicate resource needs, constraints, and impacts, escalating conflicts to the Programme Manager

Your skills and experience

• Have a recognised Project or Programme Management Qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, Prince2), or equivalent experience (Essential).
• Educated to Degree level in a suitable Technical/Engineering/Science discipline (Essential).
• Have significant experience of managing complex technical programmes or projects spanning multiple phases/years to time, spec, and cost and have experience in managing projects with software content (Essential).
• Must have demonstrated experience of influencing and managing across global teams (Essential).
• Demonstrated achievements in continuous improvement to systems, processes, or tools (Desirable).
• Must have excellent influencing and negotiation skills at multiple organisational levels (Essential).
• Must be able to analyse complex programme requirements and generate a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as part of high-level programme definition (Essential).
• Experience of project planning tools (such as Microsoft Project), processes and methodologies (Essential).
• Experience of RAID logs (Risk, Actions, Issues and Decisions) (Essential).
• Able to set the standard and hold people accountable to deliver (Essential).
• We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

Your job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

Why it is great to work with us

Your career grows through your skills, your curiosity, and the people you work with. You join a global network where we learn from each other and share knowledge openly. We focus on long‑term development and encourage you to explore new ideas that help us move forward. Innovation is part of how we think and act – we test, improve, and use what we learn to create solutions that matter. You can make a meaningful impact by contributing with your insights and taking ownership of your work, supported by flexible ways of working and leaders who empower you.

Employment type

Full-time

Job type

Hybrid

Posting End Date

11/30/26

Functional area

Project Management

Legal Entity

Edwards Ltd

Country/Region

City / Province

Bristol