Senior Project Manager

Overview

In this Senior Project Manager role, you will steer large, complex projects from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets and business goals. You’ll work within Darktrace’s Professional Services team to manage governance, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement at scale. You’ll shape delivery standards and drive continuous improvement in project management practices. This is a chance to influence strategic decisions and contribute to operational excellence in a fast-paced, technology-led environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 23 days’ holiday + public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years
• Birthday day off
• Private medical insurance for you and dependents
• Life insurance 4x base salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery with plans, schedules, resources and budgets while upholding governance and lifecycle gates
• Manage risks, issues, scope, financials and change requests with proactive mitigation
• Drive stakeholder engagement through executive reporting, dashboards and status updates across customers, business and technical teams
• Define and measure success via KPIs and data-driven performance evaluation
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment and maintain strong stakeholder relationships
• Drive continuous improvement of project methodologies and enable organizational change

Key requirements

• 5-10 years of project management experience
• Experience in Professional Services, SaaS, Cyber Security or other technology-focused environments
• Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong governance, risk management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and project controls
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
• Excellent communication, leadership, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Experience driving process improvement and embedding best practices

• strong communication skills
• stakeholder management
• problem-solving
• project governance
• risk management
• budgeting

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