Senior Project Manager - NPI

Your role
As a Senior Project Manager - NPI, your mission is to be accountable for the delivery of assigned projects within a Programme, ensuring execution aligns to portfolio priorities, governance, and the Product Commercialisation Process (PCP). The role operates as part of a Programme structure, translating defined scope into predictable delivery of schedule, cost, quality, and risk, while escalating where required to maintain programme alignment. You will report to the Programme Manager - NPI

You will

• Deliver assigned projects in alignment with Programme objectives, portfolio priorities, and PCP governance.
• Project(s) complexity may include platform development, first of kind technologies, multi-site projects, and/or high-risk/strategic developments.
• Act as the primary delivery lead for project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality
• Translate programme direction and requirements into executable project plans and WBS structures
• Manage day-to-day execution of cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliverables
• Maintain and manage RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), ensuring timely mitigation and escalation to Programme Manager
• Provide clear, consistent, and accurate project reporting into Programme governance forums (e.g. CPR)
• Manage project-level change control in line with programme governance and ensure alignment to evolving requirements
• Identify and communicate resource needs, constraints, and impacts, escalating conflicts to the Programme Manager
• Lead, mentor project managers and associate project managers. Support and provide coaching on best practices within project management.

To succeed, you will need
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

• Have a recognised Project or Programme Management Qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, Prince2), or equivalent experience (Essential).
• Educated to Degree level in a suitable Technical/Engineering/Science discipline (Essential).
• Have significant experience of managing complex technical programmes or projects spanning multiple phases/years to time, spec, and cost and have experience in managing projects with software content (Essential).
• Must have demonstrated experience of influencing and managing across global teams (Essential).
• Must have excellent influencing and negotiation skills at multiple organisational levels (Essential).
• Must be able to analyse complex programme requirements and generate a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as part of high-level programme definition (Essential).
• Experience of project planning tools (such as Microsoft Project), processes and methodologies (Essential).
• Experience of RAID logs (Risk, Actions, Issues and Decisions) (Essential).
• Able to set the standard and hold people accountable to deliver (Essential).
• Displays clear leadership and willing to take ownership and control of a situation and bring people with them even though they may not functionally report to them (Essential).

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).


About Edwards

Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value-added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications.

Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.