Senior Project Manager in Bristol

We are excited to announce a permanent Senior Project Manager role based in Severn Beach, Bristol. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of innovative products, overseeing every stage from planning through successful launch to initial deliveries. Your ability to ensure a seamless, cross‑functional process is key, with the flexibility to collaborate remotely and across different business units. As a role model, you will promote and enhance project management and product development practices, investing in your teammates’ growth and development. Join us and make a significant impact in our dynamic organisation!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project deliverables in accordance with the stage‑gate development process.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to monitor and report on progress, costs, risks, and issues at the business level.
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure that the overall project schedule, quality, feature set, and costs align with business requirements.
• Coordinate with Marketing, Sales, Service, and Operations to guarantee a smooth release and successful transition to routine shipping.
• Provide advice on and, when appropriate, lead initiatives for continuous process improvement, as well as the development and introduction of new processes and tools.

Generic Responsibilities

• Drive to deliver whilst bringing others with them and maintaining positive relationships.
• Manage own work effectively, proactively remove roadblocks for self and others, ensuring the team delivers to agreed deadlines.
• Lead project meetings, effectively manage tasking and clearly understand status across the project, highlighting any risks and issues, and steps to communicate them.
• Ensure the project maintains good task estimation and effective schedule tracking, looking for opportunities to improve the schedule.
• Manage the project's risk profile through active mitigation plans and effective management of the schedule contingency.
• Ensure that the project team clearly understands the project requirements and actively manages to those requirements.
• Build strong relationships and maintain them even through challenging times and when the client base is remote.
• Can work in a matrixed and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Effectively manage all stakeholders and be comfortable working at a senior level – and will push back when required and also be realistic in terms of issues and delivery dates.
• Proactively manage both project and product costs.
• Flexible approach – can deploy skills in a different business unit and, in some instances, remotely.

Education / Qualifications

• Degree
• Training in Project Management

Professional Skills / Abilities

• A proven track record in delivering product development projects in a high‑tech environment.
• Able to work flexibly – across product line, business units and locations – sometimes having to deliver projects remotely.
• Experience with project management tools, issue tracking systems, and status reporting.
• Broad business knowledge including an understanding of manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, quality and service and how these should be considered as part of the planning and delivery phases of a project.
• Sound understanding of a stage‑gate project oversight process.
• Demonstrable experience of managing complex projects with multi‑functional teams.
• Works remotely effectively – can deliver a project when not in the same location.

Personal Qualities

• Takes ownership for the project – focused on the delivery of it, whilst meeting cost, time and quality expectations.
• Brave in the face of occasional adversity – to take the lead, communicate and address issues.
• Ability to work effectively and proactively across the organisation to ensure a ‘joined‑up’ approach.
• Ability to communicate clearly at all levels and in all media – even when things are not running smoothly.
• Confidence to ask questions and understand how the response impacts the project.
• The skill to influence and negotiate with both stakeholders and developers as required for successful project outcomes.
• A ‘continuous improvement’ mentality.
• Act as a role model for others.
• Flexible mindset and approach.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive starting salary, structured career development opportunities, and a good work‑life balance, Oxford Instruments offers 25 days annual leave, early finish on Fridays, private healthcare, a share incentive plan, a defined contribution Group Personal Pension Plan, and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your own requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and would ask you to get in touch if you are concerned about any barriers you feel you may be facing in your application process with us.