Project Management jobs in Manchester

What you would do

• Set a clear product direction and reinforce it through team discussions, planning sessions, and stakeholder updates.
• Continuously discover and frame problems before solutions.
• Bring real user insight into every conversation and decision, shaping priorities and trade-offs.
• Collaborate across disciplines (design, engineering, data, policy) as problem-solving partners.
• Run workshops and meetings that lead to clear decisions and shared understanding.
• Take ownership and ensure the team delivers progress.

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What you would do

• Set the direction of Data Science at Autotrader and join a cross-functional squad to prioritise, resource and shape projects.
• Identify opportunities for Data Science and make compelling cases to senior stakeholders.
• Orchestrate projects, supporting Data Analysts and Scientists and collaborating with software engineers on solutions.
• Develop ML-centric data products and solutions using ML frameworks and workflows.
• Lead projects with ambiguous requirements and complex constraints, bridging dependencies across organisational boundaries.
• Establish analytical standards and tools, and elevate the technical capability of the discipline.

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What you would do

• Perform dispersion modelling using ADMS and ADMS-Roads.
• Design and implement ambient air quality monitoring plans using passive and automatic techniques.
• Contribute to bid submissions, prepare quotes and tenders.
• Manage projects to budget, programme and scope.
• Liaise with internal and external clients, project teams and Local Authorities.
• Collate and analyse data.

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What you would do

• Engage with business stakeholders and end users to elicit, validate, and refine requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear, testable, delivery-ready requirements aligned to business strategy and value.
• Partner with Delivery Owners, Product Owners, and squads on Agile ceremonies (story creation, backlog refinement, sprint planning).
• Identify and surface delivery risks early (requirement clarity, feasibility, dependencies) and drive mitigations with clear ownership.
• Maintain high-quality documentation and requirement artifacts in tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Support testing activities such as smoke testing to confirm requirements are met.

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What you would do

• Lead and manage a globally distributed engineering team, setting measurable goals and fostering accountability.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide feedback, and support career development of individual contributors.
• Oversee technical roadmaps, delivery milestones, and deadlines aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Solution Architects, UX, Security, DevOps, Customer Success, Product Management) to deliver high-quality products on time.
• Provide cross-functional technical oversight with the Tech Lead across the Product Development Life Cycle.
• Use quality metrics and development analytics to evaluate team performance and drive continuous improvement.

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What you would do

• Leading customer process automation projects from planning through to commissioning and final handover.
• Managing project scope, deliverables, budgets, schedules, milestones, risks and resources.
• Coordinating engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Building relationships with customers, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Leading project meetings, monitoring performance, and resolving issues.
• Maintaining project plans, schedules, forecasts, risk registers, change controls, and progress reports.

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What you would do

• Lead project management commissions end-to-end, often for large or complex projects.
• Act as key day-to-day client interface, ensuring client objectives are met and projects delivered to time and cost targets and quality standards.
• Advise at strategic level at project conception, including on approaches to achieve client objectives.
• Establish overall success criteria for projects, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establish project governance, processes and systems.

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What you would do

• Supporting the planning, delivery and monitoring of railway infrastructure projects.
• Assisting project managers with programme management, cost control and risk management activities.
• Supporting stakeholder engagement and client communications.
• Assisting with project reporting, governance and performance tracking.
• Contributing to the development of project plans, schedules and resource forecasts.
• Supporting multidisciplinary teams in delivering projects safely, efficiently and sustainably.

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What you would do

• Managing the project lifecycle of creative aspects of the client journey.
• Liaising with Copy, Post-Production, Music, and Voice teams to develop audio branding productions.
• Working with Technical Teams to implement productions and resolve outstanding cases.
• Contacting clients after email campaigns to determine update requirements.
• Supporting Account Managers in identifying additional business opportunities.
• Responding to incoming client queries and proactively contacting clients/internal departments.

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What you would do

• Lead technical delivery across WME projects covering river and coastal engineering, dams and reservoirs, waterways, ports and maritime infrastructure, flood risk management, climate adaptation and nature-based solutions.
• Act as trusted advisor to clients, driving technical excellence and strategic growth.
• Mentor and develop team members and manage a team of 3–5 staff, supporting welfare, career development and resourcing.
• Promote and integrate emerging technologies into project delivery.
• Expand capabilities in coastal engineering, scour analysis and hydraulics.
• Lead bid development and contribute to commercial and technical tendering.

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What you would do

• Run day-to-day project workflows, status meetings, and timeline tracking for innovation concepts from brief to live campaign implementation and post-campaign scaling.
• Coordinate with the Data, Tech & Analytics team to establish tracking codes, data clean room structures, and real-time dashboarding for innovation pilots.
• Distribute standardized briefing templates, campaign checklists, and testing frameworks across Department & Mission Hubs.
• Maintain the central testing log, tracking active hypotheses, live pilot schedules, and performance results.
• Support daily use of proprietary tools like WPP Open and InnovateIQ, keeping partner databases and system data up-to-date.
• Act as central project coordinator for active innovation projects, ensuring timely delivery of strategies and solutions.

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What you would do

• Manage global meetings, events and congress participation for pharmaceutical clients, ensuring profitability, compliance and client expectations.
• Oversee all logistical elements and budget management across pre, on-site and post event stages.
• Manage venues, congress attendance, business centre, dinners, break-outs, housing blocks and attrition.
• Manage congress sponsorship activity including approval process, liaison with client contracting team and booth providers.
• Coordinate client requirements with third-party suppliers and internal service providers.
• Produce and circulate communications such as weekly status reports to meeting partners.

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What you would do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, and Operations to support delivery of future state capabilities and enhancements within the Trustee & Depositary business.
• Support the Product Owner in day-to-day product ownership activities, including writing and refining user stories, backlog refinement, prioritisation support, and providing clarity to the Scrum team.
• Monitor business, operational, and product trends to inform prioritization decisions, identify emerging risks or opportunities, and adjust delivery plans.
• Track key delivery and performance indicators to drive continuous improvement in product outcomes and ways of working.
• Manage dependencies, sequence work, and resolve conflicts in priorities across product teams to ensure joined-up delivery.
• Lead the definition and refinement of product requirements, synthesising input from stakeholders, delivery teams, and data sources.

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What you would do

• Producing creative layout and design for proposal documents and client relationship materials aligned with corporate identity.
• Advising and training non-designers to use templates and visual assets correctly.
• Producing standard visual content usable in all formats for proposal management systems.
• Staying current with design techniques including AI creation and recommending new approaches.
• Evaluating requirements of internal customers (business development and lawyers) to assess project requirements and provide solutions.
• Managing projects from concept through to production, communicating deadlines and scope.

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What you would do

• Advise on a range of contentious and non-contentious legal matters including commercial contracts, data protection, advertising, corporate, consumer law, employment, intellectual property, property and litigation.
• Provide strategic commercial advice to the group and its brands.
• Take ownership of the legal team's strategy and implementation.
• Prepare and deliver business-wide legal training.
• Monitor new legislation and market developments.
• Identify and manage external legal advisors and costs.

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What you would do

• Track new product timelines from concept to launch, mapping the critical path and keeping schedules aligned to internal and external launch dates.
• Prepare weekly status updates for the wider team, flagging progress, risks and issues as products move through development.
• Coordinate supplier communication, including joining and helping run weekly calls, while liaising with cross-functional teams and internal specialists to keep milestones on track.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and support delivery efficiency, growing into greater ownership of the process over time.

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What you would do

• Act as business analyst and project lead on EMIR/MiFIR implementation engagements with institutional clients.
• Establish and document clients' reporting obligations and current reporting arrangements.
• Analyse client data across multiple source systems, tracing where each reportable attribute originates.
• Map the client's data landscape to the reporting specification, identifying gaps and ambiguities.
• Translate regulatory requirements into practical data requirements.
• Plan and drive the engagement, tracking progress and managing dependencies.

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What you would do

• Lead delivery of large projects and multiple medium/small projects within project and programme portfolios.
• Develop, maintain and track project plans, ensuring key milestones are identified and communicated to stakeholders.
• Manage plans, risks, issues and dependencies across inter-dependent change activities.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, internal specialists and third-party suppliers.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, reporting, influencing and escalating.
• Prepare and deliver regular RAG status reports and other reporting mechanisms.

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What you would do

• Deliver projects across multiple therapy areas in publications and medical affairs.
• Collaborate with clients to develop creative, strategic communications solutions.
• Manage project delivery timelines, scope, and budgets.
• Maintain and grow client relationships alongside senior leadership.
• Contribute to business development through scientific insight and problem-solving.

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What you would do

• Act as day-to-day client contact, providing status updates and responding to client queries.
• Manage client expectations on timelines and project scope.
• Take client briefs and communicate them to team members, implementing realistic project plans.
• Manage the day-to-day processes of the account, including running internal team meetings and reviewing content from junior team members.
• Own and deliver medium-sized client projects within budget and timeframes.
• Develop written content such as briefing documents and review junior team members' work.

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