Project Manager - Public Sector

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your role and responsibilities:

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of key technology projects across our organisation. In this role, you will manage project scope, schedule, and budget, coordinate with technical and business teams, and ensure successful outcomes for application development, modernization, cloud, or analytics initiatives.

You will work closely with clients, stakeholders, and delivery teams, applying Agile or traditional project management methods to keep projects on track. You may oversee modernization work involving APIs, microservices, or cloud platforms, or coordinate multi-team engagements with vendors and partners. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential.

If you enjoy leading teams, solving delivery challenges, and driving successful project outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead project planning, execution, and delivery in line with contractual and business requirements.
• Manage scope, budget, schedule, risks, issues, and dependencies across teams and vendors.
• Coordinate with clients, technical teams, and stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment.
• Apply project management methods such as Agile, Design Thinking, and traditional PM approaches.
• Oversee technical or vendor teams and ensure quality delivery throughout the SDLC.
• Support communication planning, reporting, and governance activities.
• Build strong client relationships and help resolve issues to enable successful outcomes.
• Depending on experience, lead workstreams, guide teams, or take responsibility for end-to-end project delivery.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management
• Strong understanding of SDLC and application delivery
• Experience with Agile and traditional PM methodologies
• Cloud delivery experience (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, GCP, Red Hat OpenShift)
• Risk, issue, dependency, and change management
• Vendor, subcontractor, and cross-functional team coordination
• Stakeholder engagement and communication planning
• Contractual and financial management, including cost controls and deliverables tracking
• Ability to manage complex or large-scale projects and programs
• Strong leadership, negotiation, and facilitation skills
• Excellent communication and analytical skills

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.