Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: London or Sheffield (Hybrid, 2 days a week)
• Daily Rate Inside IR35

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a portfolio of critical cyber, infrastructure, and IT-focused initiatives. This role is ideal for a project manager with a strong governance mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels while maintaining a calm, assured presence.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead the delivery of multiple concurrent cyber, infrastructure, and IT projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Own project governance, including RAID management, reporting, financial controls, and adherence to delivery frameworks.
• Drive delivery of the UEBA programme, ensuring effective integration with wider security platforms and analytics tools.
• Manage delivery of Certificate Authority and Data Loss Prevention initiatives, coordinating technical teams and ensuring compliance to security standards.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, resource strategies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Act as a key liaison between technical teams, cyber teams, business stakeholders, and third-party suppliers.
• Provide clear, concise communication and updates to senior leadership, contributing to governance boards and steering groups.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues, ensuring proactive mitigation and strong decision-making.
• Foster a collaborative working environment across cross-functional teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven Senior Project Management experience within large, complex organisations.
• Strong background in infrastructure, IT delivery, and cybersecurity-related programmes.
• Demonstrable experience delivering projects governed by structured methodologies such as MSP, Prince2, or similar.
• Excellent governance discipline—comfortable owning RAID logs, financials, plans, reporting, and documentation to a high standard.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a “quietly confident” style—credible, calm, and trusted by technical and non-technical leaders.
• Ability to challenge constructively and drive clarity in complex delivery environments.

Desirable:

• Experience working in regulated or critical-infrastructure environments.
• Experience of working in large enterprise delivery structures.
• Exposure to Certificate Authority, cryptographic services, or identity/access-management solutions.

Personal Attributes:

• Calm, structured, and highly organised.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Confident but understated—able to influence without noise.
• Detail-oriented with excellent judgment in risk, governance, and communication.
• Collaborative and solutions-focused.

To apply for this Senior Project Manager position, please submit your CV and a member of the Reed Professional Services Talent Team will be in touch.