Cambridge Consultants

Programme Manager

Cambridge Consultants  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Hybrid)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

Overview

We are currently looking for an experienced Programme/Project Manager (PM) to join our team within our Telecoms business unit. Our work within this domain has led to the creation of numerous world-firsts and paradigm shifting technologies.

You will have the opportunity to lead programmes that help our clients develop solutions that solve some of the world’s most complex engineering, technology, and design problems including those where we have developed the world’s most dense cellular network for Ocado or the world’s largest commercial airborne antenna for SPL.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the global technology landscape by delivering innovative, world-class projects, while developing your own skills and career within a collaborative environment.

What you'll be doing:

  • Take overall responsibility for the successful delivery of complex projects involving multidisciplinary technical teams.
  • Play a key role in managing the customer and the customer relationship.
  • Work alongside Business Developers and Technical Leads, to uncover challenges and help guide clients to a solution.
  • Collaborate and work alongside various teams from a variety of disciplines which include Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Systems, Radio Frequency, Embedded Software among others.
  • Manage budget performance across multiple projects, ensuring effective planning and delivery.

What you need to succeed:

  • Proven experience as a Programme/Project Manager with the ability to manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects involving both software and hardware development.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of project management tools and processes. A formal PM qualification (e.g. APM) is beneficial.
  • Demonstrated understanding of multiple project management methodologies, e.g. agile and waterfall.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment where project requirements and technologies continue to evolve.
  • Strong problem solving and analytical thinking when addressing complex technological challenges.
  • Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management and translating client challenges into deliverable solutions.
  • Ability to scope, shape, and size projects in collaboration with technical experts and subject matter specialists.
  • Ability to motivate and inspire diverse project teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance to achieve programme objectives.
  • Experience within telecoms or closely related technology sectors is a plus.

What we offer:

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (with the option to buy 10 more a year)
  • Company bonus (profit share)
  • Flexible working patterns and hybrid working
  • Medical insurance and group income protection
  • Employee assistance programme and mental health support group
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Sabbatical leave
  • Travel insurance (business and leisure)
  • Generous company pension plan
  • Personalised career development and training plans
  • Free breakfast and two-course lunch in the office every day
  • Free onsite parking and we are close to public transport links
  • A variety of events organised by our social committee, ranging from summer and Christmas parties to board game nights and socials at our own rooftop bar!

Why Cambridge Consultants?

At Cambridge Consultants, you'll contribute to radical, new-to-the-world innovation that transforms business, society and the planet. Joining our multidisciplinary teams means helping to turn bold ideas into reality, harnessing the power of deep tech to create products, services and experiences that have never existed before. Whether you're advancing technologies, shaping strategy, supporting operations or driving commercial growth, it's an opportunity to make a real impact and help create the future.

By submitting an application to Cambridge Consultants, you confirm that the information provided in this application, together with any supporting documentation, is true, complete, and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. You understand that any false statement, misleading information, or material omission may render you liable to disqualification from the recruitment process, withdrawal of any offer of employment, or dismissal without notice if discovered following appointment. You acknowledge that the organisation reserves the right to verify the information supplied.

Cambridge Consultants

About Cambridge Consultants

We do deep tech, you create the future… we are Cambridge Consultants. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.

As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, we’re ready to work with you to create technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. If your ambition is to shatter the status quo, it’s time to get the future you want – with the power of deep tech.

We are global team of 800 bright, talented people, delivering work across 35 countries from offices in Cambridge (UK) Boston (USA), Singapore and Tokyo. We have more than 140 laboratories and over 200,000 square feet of world-class design and development facilities.

Our people are united by the ambition to turn brilliant, breakthrough ideas into scaled technologies, products and services. Cambridge Consultants is trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to achieve their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for more than 60 years.

Industry
Creative & Design
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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