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Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities
As our next Digital Engineering Project manager, Your purpose in this role is to lead business transformation programmes in the Digital Engineering space within IBM Consulting. Our Project Manager – Digital Engineering will run a team of multi-disciplinary, cross-vendor individuals across multiple geographies to deliver some of our client’s most complex projects. You will be the face of IBM to the client for your project. You will bring a wealth of experience and expertise in the Digital Engineering space to your engagements. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex integrations, business process transformations and business change initiatives. You will manage multi-million-pound budgets to execute delivery across multiple third parties, such as client, IBM, vendor and contractor resources.

Working alongside our talented and widely experienced consultants, you’ll have the opportunity to lead innovative solutions which overcome complex business challenges. On a daily basis, you’ll transform Digital Engineering’s performance and deliver real business improvements for our clients. Whether it’s strategy and transformation or implementation programmes, your advice will help our clients to operate more efficiently and effectively. What’s more, you’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently in development in the UK across Aerospace and Defence, Automotive, Consumer Package Goods and Formula 1.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the planning, management and delivery of Digital Engineering projects.
• Build & manage the delivery relationship with our clients, stakeholders, vendors and delivery partners.
• Ensure projects adhere to IBM’s and/or client’s governance frameworks and controls.
• Manage project financials and commercials.
• Work with teams across the project lifecycle to define the integrated delivery schedule and track and report progress against this schedule.
• Represent IBM at Steering Boards, reporting on the status of our Digital Engineering projects.
• Identify opportunities to add further value and engage with the IBM practice to bring subject matter expertise to realise the opportunities.

The position will involve travel throughout the UK and Ireland. The selected candidate must be based in the UK and be able to travel and work independently.
Languages required: English ( fluent in spoken and written English ). Please note candidates applying to this position need to live and work in the UK and not require sponsorship from IBM.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• In depth knowledge of the Product Lifecycle Management and Digital Engineering domain.
• Strong consulting skills gained within a professional consulting group or working in industry.
• Evidence of working in and contributing to successful client projects.
• A high level of personal belief and passion.
• Proven ability to build new and maintain existing professional networks.
• Manage client relationships so IBM is viewed as a preferred provider of consulting services.
• Establish and maintain skills and personal eminence in the market.
• Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Strong project management skills demonstrated in the Digital Engineering space.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong consulting skills gained within a professional consulting group or working in industry.
• Engineering or Industrial background.
• Digital Engineering skills and experience. Ideally familiarity in delivering Siemens, Dassault and other PLM vendor products.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Project Management Principals and methods such as PRINCE2 and/or Agile.
• Communicate articulately and effectively at all levels of business.
• Building excellent client relationships.
• Strong IT Skills are required; Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint.

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.