Senior Software Project Manager

About the Role

As a Senior Project Manager at Telent, you will be trusted and empowered to deliver critical and complex work. You'll be free to innovate, to take ownership and make smart, agile decisions. We need the best people to help us achieve our goals. Come, work in an environment where you can stretch your abilities and deliver on your potential. Help build and keep the nation's critical infrastructure connected and protected 24/7.

Reporting to the Account Director, the Senior Software Project Manager will manage and direct internal and partner teams to ensure the development and delivery of the TVMS (TFL Video Management System). The Senior Software Project Manager will be expected to manage the Software Development teams with accountability for Quality, Financial Performance and Operational Delivery. This is an Agile role that will require flexibility to travel between London (Canning Town & Feltham), Warwick, Bristol and the ability to work some days at home.

What you’ll do

• Provide day‑to‑day management, direction and support to the TVMS project, providing regular and effective communication and prioritisation.
• Ensure the software modules to be built will join together for a seamless software product and meet client requirements.
• Ensure client project scopes and objectives are determined and defined.
• Solve complex problems and take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Manage the financial performance, including monitoring and reporting through designated systems and responsible for managing projects Profit and Loss accounts.
• Present software project reviews to senior management.
• Accountable for ensuring client change control processes are as specified and change events are recorded and submitted to the customer.
• Ensure the set‑up of stage‑gate meetings such as project kick‑off meetings, project gate reviews and project close‑out sessions.

Who you are

This role would suit a Senior Project Manager with experience of delivering successful Software projects, who thrives on coordinating complex software projects, managing stakeholders, and driving solutions that are safe, on time and on budget. Clear, confident, and detail‑focused, you make things happen.

Key Requirements

• Demonstrable Software Project Management background, with proven experience of successfully delivering complex Software projects.
• Excellent financial and commercial experience of managing multi‑million‑pound business‑critical projects.
• Have excellent presentation skills and ability to present at Board level.
• Experience of managing complex Customer, Stakeholder and 3rd party relationships.
• Full driving license and flexibility to travel to Telent and partner sites.

Additional Benefits

• Car Allowance
• Employee Healthcare
• 26 days holiday, plus public holidays, and the option to buy or sell days annually
• Company pension scheme
• A range of family friendly policies
• Occupational health support and wellbeing portal
• Discounts on cinema, restaurants and shopping with Telent Reward scheme

What we offer

A career at Telent can span many sectors, roles, technologies and clients giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed team to deliver. We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our on‑going commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.

About Telent

We’re passionate about creating an environment that champions diversity and inclusion, where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves and empowered to reach their full potential. People are at the heart of our business, and we believe that our teams should reflect the diverse experiences and backgrounds of the communities we support.

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