Top Project Manager Jobs in Manchester

Project Manager within the Chief of Staff team, responsible for coordinating strategic and change initiatives from assessment through completion. The role involves shaping change plans, assessing risks, coordinating resources, facilitating delivery, maintaining project updates in Asana, and tracking timelines, outcomes, and stakeholder needs. The successful candidate will communicate effectively across teams, support strategic planning, and bring experience with project delivery, change management, technology-enabled initiatives, OKRs, and data-informed decision-making.

Manage project delivery for the Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme, including schedules, budgets, risks, contracts, interfaces, stakeholder relationships, and third-party engagement. The role requires monitoring Professional Services Contracts, managing NEC3 Project Manager responsibilities, reporting progress, resolving emerging issues, and coordinating activities across HS2 directorates, Network Rail, the Department for Transport, and other stakeholders. The Project Manager will support collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing project delivery.

Owns end-to-end delivery of logistics, transport, warehousing, and continuous improvement projects. Responsibilities include planning, scope and budget management, risk and issue control, stakeholder coordination, governance, reporting, UAT, operational readiness, business handover, and continuous improvement. The role requires strong knowledge of logistics operations, WMS and TMS systems, project controls, KPIs, cost management, and supplier and customer engagement.

Manage complex construction and refurbishment projects across higher education, laboratory, and museum environments. Responsibilities include coordinating contractors and multidisciplinary teams, supervising live-site delivery, managing schedules, budgets, quality, safety, risks, and stakeholder relationships. The role requires resolving access, phasing, noise, and specialist-equipment protection challenges while maintaining project momentum in occupied and operational settings.

Lead multidisciplinary teams delivering medium- to large-scale utilities, renewables, and infrastructure projects. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, project governance, NEC contract compliance, budgets, schedules, safety, quality, and performance. Drive collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovative solutions while resolving issues and supporting Senior Project Managers and Project Directors. Candidates should have project management experience in utilities, renewables, or infrastructure and be able to obtain and maintain required security clearance.

Lead customer-facing SaaS implementation projects from kickoff through go-live and transition to Customer Success. Manage project plans, schedules, budgets, scope, risks, issues, dependencies, governance, and change requests. Build trusted relationships with business and technical stakeholders, facilitate meetings and steering committees, coordinate cross-functional delivery teams, and drive customer adoption and business outcomes. Contribute to project management standards, methodologies, tools, and delivery excellence initiatives.

Owns and prioritizes the Data and Reporting Analytics backlog, manages capacity and demand, and coordinates project delivery. The role develops project plans and roadmaps, establishes governance and reporting cadences, manages dependencies and risks, and partners with technical leads and business stakeholders. It requires translating complex business needs into actionable, data-driven outcomes while driving transformation in a fast-moving commercial or fashion environment.

Supports the planning, delivery, monitoring, and reporting of railway infrastructure projects through AECOM’s Graduate Development Programme. Responsibilities include assisting with project schedules, cost and risk control, stakeholder communications, governance, resource forecasting, contract administration, and multidisciplinary project coordination. The role provides structured professional development and exposure to rail delivery, project controls, commercial management, and live client projects.

Manage and govern engineering project delivery by developing WBS, master schedules, risk and subcontractor management plans, reporting performance and variances, leading planning meetings, auditing subcontractors, and coordinating resources to meet milestones, cost and quality targets in a manufacturing/defence environment.

Supports delivery of utility-scale battery energy storage projects across EMEA from initiation through construction, commissioning, and handover. Responsibilities include maintaining schedules and project documentation, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking budgets and risks, managing change orders and work packages, facilitating meetings, supporting site activities, and communicating with customers, contractors, and suppliers. The role requires regular travel to project sites and offers ownership of smaller projects as experience develops.

Manages IRT and eCOA systems for clinical studies, including protocol analysis, requirements gathering, system development and validation, client meetings, timelines, budgets, software changes, UAT, user training, and licensing coordination. The role requires knowledge of randomization, clinical supply strategies, SDLC, data structures, query language, pharmaceutical research, and applicable ICH, GCP, FDA, and EU regulations.

Lead end-to-end annotation projects: define workflows, coordinate teams (annotators, reviewers, experts), track progress and quality via dashboards, manage launches and phase transitions, pilot tooling and methodology improvements, and build scalable operational systems and documentation to support annotator community and cross-functional alignment.

Manage end-to-end construction projects for analogue and digital advertising structures, from feasibility, design, tendering, budgeting, and contractor appointment through construction, health and safety compliance, handover, and closure. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, costs, risks, variations, contractor performance, landlord relationships, site inspections, CDM compliance, operational acceptance, and stakeholder communication across a UK-wide portfolio.

Lead London's Tree Equity and Urban Resilience Initiative, coordinating boroughs, partners, work programmes, grants, pilot projects, and funding. The role requires managing complex projects, developing urban greening strategies, building stakeholder capacity, overseeing budgets and awards, and securing additional finance to deliver greener, more resilient communities.

Lead end-to-end CRM integration projects in HubSpot: create and manage project plans, budgets, resources, documentation, UAT, change management and integrations. Communicate with stakeholders, track progress, surface risks, and ensure client satisfaction while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Manage service projects from order acceptance through completion, coordinating customers, suppliers, subcontractors, engineers, and internal departments. Own project plans, budgets, forecasts, margins, reporting, technical documentation, risk assessments, and health and safety compliance. Serve as the primary customer contact, attend key site milestones, coordinate engineering resources, improve operational efficiency, and ensure projects meet financial, quality, and delivery objectives. Regular travel and extended customer-site work may be required.

Owns quality workstreams for strategic projects, including M&A, integrations, implementations, and transformations. Conducts quality and regulatory gap assessments, risk assessments, and process evaluations; develops integration plans; ensures compliance with GxP, GDP, ISO, and related requirements; coordinates cross-functional stakeholders; monitors project actions; and reports recommendations to senior leadership.

Lead workplace and office fit-out projects across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Manage scope, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, governance, technical due diligence, stakeholder alignment, and external project partners. Translate global workplace standards into locally effective outcomes while coordinating designers, architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers, and internal teams. Travel within Europe and occasionally internationally as project needs require.

Manage delivery of fire sprinkler projects from initiation to handover: lead stakeholder meetings, maintain programmes and project documentation, supervise on-site teams and suppliers, control costs, raise variations and final accounts, perform inspections and H&S record-keeping, and support audits and commissioning activities.

Manage global pharmaceutical meetings, events, and congress participation from planning through post-event reporting. Responsibilities include venue and supplier coordination, sponsorship management, client liaison, on-site delivery, budget tracking, invoicing, scope control, financial reconciliation, and compliance. The role requires international travel, strong customer service, accurate project administration, and intermediate Excel skills.

Leads complex, concurrent projects from planning through delivery, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, quality, governance, documentation, vendors, and stakeholder expectations. Oversees project forecasting, change control, reporting, and service transition while coordinating internal departments, customers, and third parties. Requires strong project management experience in a fast-paced managed service provider environment and familiarity with Microsoft technologies and delivery governance practices.

Manage mid-sized technical implementation projects: maintain project documentation and WBS, track effort in Smartsheet/Certinia, lead client/internal meetings, resolve resource conflicts, monitor margins and CSAT, and ensure successful delivery of Snowflake-based solutions.

Manage fire sprinkler construction projects from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery on schedule, within budget, and to regulatory and customer requirements. Responsibilities include coordinating stakeholders, maintaining programmes and project records, managing labour, materials, suppliers, costs, variations, documentation, inspections, audits, safety requirements, and final accounts. The role requires fire sprinkler standards knowledge, construction project management experience, site management competence, commercial awareness, and relevant industry certifications.

Manage EMEA customer projects from planning through delivery, including scope, schedules, risks, budgets, governance, resources, escalations, and stakeholder communications. Coordinate cross-functional ScienceLogic teams and customer stakeholders, align technical work with business outcomes, and maintain project health. Use AI and automation tools such as Copilot, Power Automate, and workflow orchestration to improve reporting, RAID management, action tracking, resource planning, and communications. Identify expansion opportunities and address scope or timeline challenges.

Project Managers will support complex transformation programmes for major UK and international organisations. Responsibilities include tracking workstreams, managing risks and issues, preparing executive reporting, briefing senior stakeholders, establishing governance cadences, escalating impacts, and improving delivery processes. Candidates need proven project management experience in fast-paced change environments, strong stakeholder and communication skills, attention to detail, ownership, and expertise in planning, RAID, governance, and progress tracking.