Project Manager

Overview

Role: Project Manager at PXC

PXC, the UK’s largest provider of wholesale connectivity, aims to be the UK’s #1 wholesale platform offering connectivity, voice, cloud and security with a robust, secure, resilient network. We operate across three core sites (Salford, London and Skopje, North Macedonia) and empower our people to become true experts who embody our values: we care; we challenge; we commit.

Role momentum: As part of the Major Change function, the Project Manager drives the delivery of strategic projects, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery and alignment among stakeholders to project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of projects, ensuring they meet business requirements and are delivered to time, budget, and quality standards.
• Oversee the full project lifecycle from initiation to completion, developing end-to-end project plans in adherence to the PXC Change Framework.
• Manage projects within the telecoms domain, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate with network engineering, development teams, and third-party vendors to deliver telecom solutions.
• Establish and maintain the overall project plan, milestones, and work packages with clear accountability across stakeholders.
• Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating as appropriate.
• Provide resolutions to problems, project changes, and resource constraints.
• Set up and manage project governance, including SteerCos and regular reporting to keep stakeholders engaged.
• Ensure planned deliverables are fit for purpose and accepted into service.
• Establish and execute project communications plans, including pre/post-implementation communications.
• Identify and track project success factors and operational KPIs.
• Conduct end-of-project evaluations and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future projects.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in successful project delivery, ideally within the telecommunications sector (e.g., network rollout, infrastructure upgrades, OSS/BSS integration).
• Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of telecom technologies such as fiber, 5G, VoIP, or IP networking.
• Accreditation in project management (e.g., PRINCE2, APM).
• Good commercial awareness, ensuring projects are delivered cost-effectively while meeting business case assumptions.
• Demonstrated ability to Lead a matrix team to deliver project objectives.

How we look after our employees

• Our brand new “PXC Flex” benefit launched in January 2025, including Flex30: an additional 30 hours of leave per year.
• Hybrid working policy offering flexibility to work from home and in accessible office spaces.
• Starting holiday allowance of 25 days, with up to 10 extra days via our holiday purchase scheme.
• Free private healthcare, competitive pension, and potential for bonus.
• Free broadband for all employees; gifts for major life events such as marriages and births.
• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym, and a range of discounts.
• Inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC.

(* Days and hours are based on a full-time pattern; pro-rated for part-time employees)

Additional information

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Project Management
• Industries: Telecommunications

At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself. We’re also not your usual 9-5. We are a dynamic workplace and we want to talk to you about how you like to work.