Project Manager 

Location:  These are hybrid roles; typically working 3 days in the office or on client site in London, Manchester or Cheltenham and up to 2 days working from home.  

Employment Type:  Permanent or Contract 

Salary:  Dependent on experience 

As a Change Consultancy, at Clarion Insight we help organisations, teams and individuals to successfully embrace complex business change, by putting people at the centre of everything we do. 

 We are seeking several Project Managers at all levels to join our dynamic team and work alongside our other Project Managers, Business Change Consultants, and Strategic Comms professionals. You will work primarily in the National Security and Defence domain, which is fast paced and extremely rewarding.    

About The Role

As a Project Manager at Clarion Insight, you will work with our clients to use well established and appropriate project management techniques to deliver successful products and outcomes that meet client expectations and support business transformation and change. You’ll be tasked with initiating, planning, scheduling, implementing, and managing low to medium complexity project work throughout the full project lifecycle.    

You will typically take a leading role in managing a team to enable successful delivery, and take a leading role in establishing governance arrangements, monitoring and reporting progress, and stakeholder management within your project work. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • maintain the business case throughout the life of a project where required 

  • develop and maintain a project plan 

  • manage external project dependencies 

  • plan for, and manage stakeholders in connection with product delivery 

  • perform financial planning and management 

  • identify, assess, manage and review risks and issues 

  • monitoring and reporting progress to the Service Delivery Lead 

  • deliver the products that meet the acceptance criteria of the customers  

  • influence the approach to realise the on-going benefits 

About You

We are looking for individuals who are able to work as part of a team or leading a small team of Change management Consultants, Business Analysts Comms and Engagement Specialists and Software Developers.  Ideally you will: 

Ideally you will: 

  • have experience of successfully delivering projects throughout the full project lifecycle, preferably within a public sector environment. 

  • be familiar with waterfall and agile approaches to project management 

  • be comfortable with client engagements at all levels and be able to present key management information to stakeholders 

  • have experience of using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence and MS Project 

  • be able to think creatively, constantly looking for new and innovative ways to engage different audiences 

  • have excellent communication and interpersonal skills 

  • be accredited as a professional project manager and hold a qualification such as PMQ (was APMP) or PRINCE2 Practitioner, preferably you will also have an Agile certification. 

  • Have worked in a technical or technology environment, preferably within the National Security or defence environment 

     

About Us

Clarion Insight is a specialist consultancy focusing on improving organisational, team and individual performance through the transformation of relationships and ways of working.  We have an enviable track record of successful delivery of both small and large-scale change and transformation programmes in exacting and sensitive environments.   

We believe that the greatest competitive advantage for any business is in the quality of their people and how they work with each other. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do. We are passionate about helping clients improve the quality of their relationships at all levels of the organisation.     

We adopt these same principles for our own teams. Our core values of Trust, Tolerance and Teamwork are at the heart of how we work. We encourage and empower our people to lead, take responsibility, and make optimal use of their skills and expertise - all whilst working together as one integrated team.     

Benefits

Clarion offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, holiday trading scheme, private medical insurance, up to 10% Company pension contributions, life assurance, hybrid and flexible working.

Clearance

We have several roles at different levels within Clarion, eDV clearance would be ideal, but we would consider those with MOD DV or SC.  

All successful applicants must be eligible & willing to obtain DV clearance. For further information on the criteria to obtain this please visit - United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)  

Application

Successful candidates will be interviewed by video call followed up with a second interview at our offices in Cheltenham. We will look to accommodate any individual requirements to ensure our selection process is inclusive.  

Our values and company ethos are very important to us, and we strive to live these through everything we do. We are committed to equality of opportunity for our team and encourage all applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion / belief and marriage / civil partnership.