Project Manager

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid, Ellesmere Port or Manchester

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday, flexible between 08:00 – 18:00

Salary: Competitive salary, plus additional benefits

About us and the department this role sits in:

We’re the foundation brand bringing together our three companies, Lime, Calrom & Aviate, all with unique services to the travel trade. This position sits in Calrom.

This role is part of Calrom’s busy Project Delivery team. We’re a driven and motivated team with the ultimate goal of delivering products that are fit for purpose. We do this by providing frameworks, standardised processes, and assistance to all stakeholders across the business, with a cohesive approach that helps our projects move forward with ease!

To support your personal development, the team and wider company are dedicated to providing plenty of training opportunities and helping team members flourish in their roles.

The role:

As part of the growth in our Calrom Groups team, we are looking for an experienced Project Manager with the skills and passion for managing the software delivery process to our airline customers for our market‑leading Groups Booking system. You will work closely with our Head of Projects, Head of Product, and the rest of the Calrom Groups team to ensure our systems are successfully delivered to our airline partners.

Tasks & responsibilities include:

• Managing the delivery of complex software solutions
• Collaborating with the wider management team, project managers, business analysts, subject matter experts, system and solution architects, and other functional work‑stream leads to create robust project plans
• Communicating and collaborating with external and internal stakeholders to review progress, revise scope, schedule, or budget, resolve issues, and mitigate risks
• Managing and monitoring the project implementation activities using relevant processes and tools
• Identifying, tracking, and controlling changes throughout the project
• Tracking and reporting on progress to both internal and external stakeholders as per agreed project plans
• Collaborating and providing input to the commercial team on RFPs and RFIs when needed
• Ability and flexibility to travel, on occasion, to customer sites
• Ability and flexibility to work outside of the operating hours (i.e., earlier start in the morning/late finish in the evening)

We think you’ll be a great fit if you have:

• Knowledge and expertise in business and IT project management
• A technical background, to enable you to understand the demanding technical & business environment within which our systems operate
• Proven experience in project management, successfully delivering end‑to‑end project lifecycles using a recognised project management methodology
• Experience of industry‑standard Agile project management processes
• Experience of project management tools such as Microsoft Project
• The ability to work in a fast‑paced, ever‑changing environment
• Strong customer relationship management

We encourage people to understand our business deeply, so people who have an inquisitive mind and a desire for continuous learning will thrive in our friendly collegiate environment. You will work with a group of highly passionate technology people who want to develop the best systems in their chosen business area.

What you’ll get:

• 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays
• 4‑month probation period
• Flexible and home working policies.
• 5% matched company pension contribution
• Modern offices with great spaces to kick back and relax – there’s even an on‑site gym and bar in our Cheshire Oaks office
• Internal training academy to support your learning and personal development.
• Additional company benefits to support your well‑being and happiness