Project Manager

Please note that this is a 12 months FTC opportunity

About the Role

As a Project Manager, you will take responsibility of larger, more complex projects. This includes leading internal business change initiatives, or delivering high profile projects to external customers, utilising internal and external resources.

What you will be working on

• Accountable to lead the successful delivery of Projects and/or Releases from initiation to completion, on time, within scope and to budget, following best practice standards, in line with department guidelines

• Understand the business drivers, benefits and project objectives through clearly defined success criteria, ensuring these are the core focus of the delivery

• Ensure a thorough project initiation, setting the project up for a successful delivery

• Establish and maintain appropriate project governance and controls, project gates, documentation, reports and management information

• Manage the project budget through initial estimates, tracking and up to date forecasts

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional business, technical and 3rd party stakeholders, ensuring project delivery is fit-for-purpose and meet business expectations

• Identify and pro actively manage risks, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate

• Motivate the team and create a project environment that stimulates a positive ‘can do’ approach

• Ensure that the project is accepted into operations teams and service transition is successful

• A Pro-active and engaged member of the Group Transformation function, supporting others in the team and contributing to continual improvement initiatives

• For new product projects, manage the RFP process involving the relevant PXC stakeholders for product, supplier and implementation partner selection

What will make you successful in your role?

Must have:

• Experience of managing simplification / consolidation, transformation and migration projects

• Full lifecycle software delivery PM

• Project Management tools e.g. MS project

• Significant PM experience

Be great to also have:

• PM/Pgm qualification (Prince2 / MSP)

• 3rd party partner / vendor management experience

• Industry: Telecoms, Media, Technology

How we look after our employees

• Our brand new “Flex30” benefit, launched in January 2025, which gives you an additional 30 hours* of leave every year for you to use how you wish

• Our hybrid working policy offers you flexibility to work from home 60% of the time, with the other 40% connecting with your colleagues in one of our fantastic, accessible and collaborative office spaces

• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days* holiday and up to 10 extra days* leave via our holiday purchase scheme

• Free private healthcare for all employees, competitive pension scheme and the opportunity to earn bonus

• Free broadband for all employees plus gifts for major life events such as marriages and births

• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym, electric car scheme and much more, plus a huge range of shopping and leisure discounts so you can save even more cash

• A range of inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC

(* Days and hours are based on a full-time employee’s working pattern and leave is pro-rated for part-time employee)

At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customer 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.