SATIC - Project Manager :Operate

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Our team partners with clients to navigate complex transformation journeys, ensuring sustainable and measurable impact across their organisations. We enable businesses to successfully deliver change, embedding transformation as a continuous capability.

By leveraging strategic insight, technology, and industry-leading methodologies, we drive execution excellence across projects, programmes, and portfolios. With a diverse client base spanning multinational corporations, public sector bodies, and entrepreneurs, we create a dynamic and stimulating work environment where innovation thrives.

About the Role

As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering successful transformation initiatives that align with our clients’ strategic objectives. Working across projects, programmes, and portfolios, you will drive impactful change, ensuring seamless execution while embedding a transformation mindset within organisations. You will be responsible for defining project scopes, managing risk, and aligning stakeholders, ensuring that every initiative delivers measurable value. Key Responsibilities

● Engagement Management: Lead and manage cross-functional teams across transformation engagements, taking accountability for delivery & coordination.

● Stakeholder Management: Develop robust and trusting relationships across all lines of service and external stakeholders.

● Efficient Solutions: Utilise appropriate and repeatable solutions to support high-quality, efficient outcomes, leveraging technology.

● Project Delivery: Manage end-to-end project delivery through established methodologies and processes, ensuring successful execution from initiation to closure, including effective transition to BAU and adoption of new ways of working.

● Strategic Direction: Support management in setting the strategic direction and share responsibility for project delivery.

● Quality Assurance: The ability to ensure that outputs are delivered in accordance with requirements and provide confidence to the governance board that a change initiative is on track to deliver the objectives and intended value.

● Scoping & Business Case Development: Lead the scoping of high-level project requirements and the development and preparation of business cases.

● Project Documentation: Develop and maintain project management documentation.

● Financial & Budget Management: Manage project budgets and financials in accordance with contractual agreements.

● Dependency Management: Proactively identify, track, and resolve project dependencies, ensuring alignment across projects, programmes, and portfolios.

● Project Planning: Develop and maintain structured project plans, adapting to challenges while optimising resources to achieve transformation outcomes.

● Project Reporting: Provide input into project reporting, facilitating engagement with stakeholders internally and externally.

● Risk & Issue Management: Develop and deploy active risk management processes across projects.

● Resource & Supplier Management: Oversee project resources, covering internal teams, clients, and third parties, and engage with a broad supplier ecosystem.

● Change Control Management: Develop and deploy robust change control processes.

● Technology & AI Integration: Identify opportunities to advise clients on leveraging generative AI to enhance business operations. This may include participating in AI strategy workshops,

demonstrating real-life AI solutions, and supporting AI transformation projects, including new operating models and functional use cases.

● Thought Leadership: Represent PwC Operate Transformation Services at relevant events, providing insightful and thought-provoking leadership.

Essential Skills and Experience

● Advanced knowledge of programme and project management with extensive experience in a Project Management role.

● Strong communicator and influencer who is great at connecting the dots at the organisational, strategic, and project levels.

● Project team leadership, with the ability to mobilise, inspire, and lead multidisciplinary teams, often composed of PwC, client, and external resources.

● Business and commercial acumen, with the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the business and manage delivery in complex environments.

● Proven experience in managing complex transformation projects from initiation through to closure.

● Excellent project planning skills, with experience using project management tools such as MS-Project.

● Comprehensive working knowledge of MS Office, with high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint etc.

● Professional certifications (PRINCE2, APMP, PMP, Agile, Scrum) are beneficial but not essential.

● Fundamental understanding of Generative AI and a strong enthusiasm for continuous learning and upskilling in this area.

What’s In It for You?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your personal and professional growth, including:

● Empowered Flexibility: Design your optimal working pattern and schedule.

● Career Development: Dedicated Career Coach and support with Professional Development.

● Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary performance-related bonus.

● Generous Leave: 25 days' standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase through your benefits package.

● Tailored Benefits: A flexible benefits scheme tailored to meet your and your family’s needs.

● Pension Plan: A group pension plan with additional funding from PwC.

Ways of Working

PwC offers a hybrid working policy with a mandatory minimum requirement of three days per week in the office or at a client site (pro rata if not on a full-time contract). This can be fulfilled at your base office, another PwC office, a client location, or a combination of these. You may be required to attend the workplace on additional days upon reasonable request for business needs, such as meetings or training sessions.

Travel Requirements

Given the diverse nature of our client base, you may be required to travel to other PwC offices, various client locations across the UK, and potentially internationally. Therefore, flexibility to travel and occasionally stay away from your base location may be required.

Travel Requirements

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Job Posting End Date

February 22, 2026