[Hiring] Project Manager @Sopra Steria

Role Description

Some projects need more than governance and reporting. They need a leader who can step into complexity, bring clarity, build stakeholder confidence, and drive delivery forward.

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead a high-profile, business-critical technology programme where success depends on strong leadership, supplier management, and delivery excellence. You'll be joining at a pivotal stage, taking ownership of a project with significant visibility and helping shape its successful outcome.

This is an opportunity to make a real impact, working alongside senior stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners in a secure and fast-paced environment. Role is remote with some travel to client site. You do need to be eligible for SC Clearance for this role.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Take the lead in assessing project health, understanding delivery risks, and creating a clear path to success.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects on infrastructure and applications.
• Build confidence with senior stakeholders through clear communication and strong delivery leadership.
• Manage third-party suppliers and partners, ensuring commitments, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Drive project governance, reporting, financial oversight, and delivery planning.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Coordinate multiple teams and suppliers to keep delivery aligned and on track.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering medium to large-scale IT projects from initiation through to completion.
• Strong supplier, vendor, and partner management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across business, technical, and external organisations.
• Experience managing project governance, RAID logs, budgets, reporting, and delivery plans.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, and change management expertise.
• Oracle experience/knowledge.

Requirements

• Experience delivering projects within UK Government or Defence environments.
• Knowledge of MOD, Defence Digital, or Government governance frameworks.
• Experience operating within secure or highly regulated environments.
• Exposure to cloud, infrastructure, workplace technology, service transition, or digital transformation programmes.
• Experience working across complex multi-supplier ecosystems.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days.
• 4 x life insurance.
• Matched contributory pension to 6%.
• 3% flex benefit.
• Single private medical cover.
• £5400.00 car allowance.

Company Description

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment.

We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.