Project Manager / BA

Project Manager stand up the delivery infrastructure (plan, RAID log, reporting cadence, document control).

• Month 1: run project kick-off with our partner's security team; agree ways of working, meeting rhythm, and escalation routes; begin scoping and threat modelling coordination.
• Month 2: land the first milestone — PID signed, threat model approved by the partner's security team, and baseline metrics agreed with measurable targets.
• Month 3: staging deployment underway and on track; user research plan drafted and first sessions scheduled ahead of live deployment.
• What you will own
• Project delivery — day-to-day management of the 12-month programme: milestone tracking, project plan, dependencies, and keeping everyone honest about progress.
• Governance and reporting — RAID log, monitoring reports, document control, and Innovate UK compliance.

You'll make grant reporting painless for everyone else.

• Stakeholder coordination — the working rhythm between Strand, our water utility partner's security team, and specialist subcontractors.

Meetings that matter, minutes that get read.

• User research — structured interviews, workflow observation, and survey design with the analysts using our platform day to day.

You'll build the evidence base for user acceptability.

• Requirements and prioritisation — translating research findings into clear, traceable product requirements, and working with engineering to prioritise them into two feedback-driven releases.
• Evaluation and case study — pulling together the final KPI evidence, user acceptability results, and project close-out, including a published case study with our partner.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in project delivery, business analysis, or product — you've owned projects end-to-end, from kick-off to close, with milestones, budgets, risks, and multiple stakeholders, ideally in software, cyber, or a technical environment.

You can point to a delivery you ran, not one you supported.

• A track record of hitting milestones — you've delivered to a funder, regulator, or demanding enterprise client where the dates and evidence actually mattered, and you can talk us through how you kept it on track when it wobbled.
• User-centred experience — you've run user interviews, usability sessions, workshops, or discovery work, and you know how to turn qualitative feedback into requirements a developer can act on.
• Organised and rigorous — RAID logs, reporting cadences, and document control don't scare you.

You bring structure without bureaucracy, and you build it yourself rather than waiting for a PMO.

• Comfortable with technical users — you can sit with a SOC analyst, understand their workflow, and ask the right follow-up questions, even if you're not a security specialist yourself.
• Clear communicator — you write reports people actually read and run meetings people don't dread.
• Seed-stage temperament — comfortable with ambiguity, happy to wear multiple hats, and motivated by shipping rather than process for its own sake.
• What would make you stand out
• You've delivered a grant-funded project (Innovate UK, Horizon, or similar) and know the reporting drill.
• You've worked in or with regulated sectors: utilities, critical infrastructure, government, financial services, or healthcare.
• You've worked in cybersecurity, or alongside a SOC or security team.
• You hold a delivery qualification (PRINCE2, APM, Agile) or have formal UX research training, or both.

Compensation and benefits

• Salary: £45,000 – £52,000 depending on experience, on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
• Mac Book, monitor, and a fully-kitted home and office setup.
• £2,500 personal travel allowance per year, for your holidays.
• Your birthday off, on us.
• Team offsites, quarterly socials, and a genuinely good culture.
• Training and development budget aligned to your career path.

How to apply Send a short note explaining why this role and why Strand to oli@strandintelligence. com.

Tell us about a project you owned end-to-end: what the milestones were, what went wrong, and how you landed it anyway.

If you've also got an example of research or discovery work that changed what a team built, even better.

We read everything.

Strand Intelligence is an equal opportunities employer.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.