Senior Project & Delivery Manager in Portsmouth

Are you an experienced project or delivery management professional with digital or technology delivery experience who enjoys solving complex problems and guiding clients through challenging programmes of work? Do you want to play a key role in a growing consultancy that values integrity, collaboration and real impact? We are hiring a Senior Project & Delivery Manager who brings strong delivery leadership, commercial awareness and proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams and customer relationships. Redbay is a small but fast‑growing cyber security company where you’ll have the opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility from day one. We’re looking for people who are adaptable, proactive, and ready to meet challenges with a positive, solutions‑focused mindset.

What you will be doing:

• Lead the successful delivery of client cyber and digital projects and programmes while supporting the development of both clients and the internal team.
• Establish clear plans and controls, maintain delivery momentum and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading projects and programmes from initiation through delivery, transition and closure.
• Defining scope, outcomes, delivery plans, milestones, budgets and resource requirements.
• Establishing governance, controls and reporting to support timely decision-making.
• Managing risks, issues, dependencies and change, escalating where appropriate and driving effective resolution.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, suppliers and client stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum.
• Monitoring progress against time, cost, quality and outcome measures, taking corrective action when needed.
• Producing clear plans, status reports, decision papers and other high‑quality client deliverables.
• Facilitating workshops, reviews and stakeholder meetings to build alignment and remove barriers.
• Managing and mentoring consultants, providing oversight, guidance and development support.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for key clients, managing expectations and building lasting relationships.
• Identifying new opportunities and contributing to well‑structured, high‑quality proposals.
• Capturing lessons learned and embedding continuous improvement across delivery activity.

What skills and experience will you need?

• Knowledge of cyber security or experience working in a digital, technology or transformation environment is advantageous but not essential.
• Significant experience leading complex projects, programmes or delivery work in client‑facing environments.
• Strong project planning, governance and control skills, with a track record of delivering to agreed time, cost and quality constraints.
• Practical experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, change and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to brief, influence and build confidence with senior, technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, particularly when producing concise, high‑impact plans, reports and recommendations.
• Demonstrable experience managing and developing multidisciplinary teams, including oversight of workload, quality and performance.
• Experience managing customers directly, including handling escalations and building long‑term relationships.
• Commercial awareness, including an understanding of budgets, resources, suppliers and delivery commitments.
• Ability to adapt delivery approaches to suit the context, using recognised project, programme, Agile or service delivery methods where appropriate.
• Relevant qualifications such as PRINCE2, APM, AgilePM, Scrum, MSP or equivalent are desirable but not essential.
• Ability to work on‑site with clients in the Portsmouth area at least two days per week.
• Existing Security Clearance (SC) is preferable but not essential.

You will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) and be able to travel to our client’s site, in the Portsmouth area at least 2 days per week.

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to shape and grow a part of the business as we expand.
• A collaborative, transparent culture where we work in the open and partner closely with clients.
• A team that values the right attitudes, integrity and delivering real results.
• Competitive salary: £60,000 – £80,000 (depending on experience).

Who We Are:

We are a team of project and delivery leaders, transformation specialists, cyber security experts and advisors. We help clients move away from legacy ways of working, deliver complex change and adapt more rapidly to the challenges of the modern world.

What We Value:

Our teams always have the right attitude, integrity and results. We need people who work with the right attitudes and behaviours, have the highest level of integrity and have the skills and expertise to create the right results. We focus on customer success and build teams around customer’s missions and objectives. We collaborate and iterate deliverables with the customer, we ‘work in the open’ and we are comfortable showing and explaining how we worked and how we came to our conclusions.

Equal Opportunities:

Committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.