The Opportunity
As an experienced Senior Project Manager in our Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating the day-to-day delivery of FocalPoint's products and keeping our engineering and commercial teams aligned.
Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will lead delivery for our engineering teams using Agile methodologies, drive coordination across functions, and help build a project management function that uses meaningful data to demonstrate project control.
This is a dynamic, collaborative and highly visible position. You will keep work moving across the organisation, communicate confidently with senior leaders, proactively problem solve and help shape the processes, reporting and governance that underpin how we deliver.
This role is a maternity cover for the current Senior Project Manager. From December 2026 to March 2028.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day delivery across our engineering teams using Agile methodologies, from planning and prioritisation through to milestones
- Manage dependencies, risks and issues, escalating where necessary so our teams can deliver
- Ensure Engineering and Commercial (and/or relevant teams) have, regular effective forums and clear ownership of actions
- Work closely within the Operations team to oversee and coordinate communication effectiveness, coordination processes, customer trials, and product shipments
- Build, mature and provide programme reporting and insight to the Head of Operations, using delivery data to demonstrate project control
- Help build and mature the project management function, improving processes, governance and reporting
- Stay up to date on industry-leading methodologies and tools
Your Experience
Essential:
5+ years' project management experience in an engineering or technical environment, ideally software. We welcome applicants with Operational, Commercial and Engineering backgrounds.
Recent hands-on experience of Agile delivery across more than one team
Experience in a project or programme function that used meaningful data to demonstrate project control, and in improving the processes and governance behind it
Formal training in delivery management methodologies e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, PMQ
Desirable:
Experience working in a start-up/ scale-up environment
Experience setting up, or being part of setting up, a programme management function
Exposure to commercial or customer-facing teams, such as aligning delivery with customer commitments
Your Skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Confident coordinating across teams and functions to keep work moving
- Confident engaging senior executives, with the judgement to know when to challenge constructively, to hold a position and when to escalate.
- Able to work autonomously and pick up a live portfolio quickly
Our Guiding Principle and Values
Our guiding principle, Strive for Excellence, sets the expectation of how we operate.
It helps to shape our work environment, and how we should navigate everything we do from our day to day behaviours to the way we interact across the organisation.
We value high integrity.
We demonstrate this through honesty, transparency and ethical behaviours.
We value high performance.
We demonstrate this through active problem solving, proactively seeking out solutions.
We value high collaboration.
We demonstrate this through empowering our people and teams, creating an environment that encourages inclusivity and respect.
Your Development and Perks
Our people are the reason why our business continues to thrive. We lead the way in the industry, we care for our people and we are always looking to support your development.
Staff are regularly mentored by our team of experts and all employees are offered, bi-annual appraisals, career development plans, training courses relevant to their field and feedback sessions through 1-2-1 meetings.
Our generous benefits package includes the following:
8% employer-contribution pension scheme
You can choose your way of working- In-hub (3 days+ in office) or Hybrid (1-2 days in office)
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Additional annual leave after 3 years
Enhanced special leave
Extra annual leave at the end of December
Daily in-hub (office) lunches on us
Company Options Scheme (determined by Executive Team)
Up to £5000 Recommend a friend scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Private Healthcare - Vitality Health
Paid professional memberships
Company options are not offered as part of the package. You may be offered them throughout your employment
We are an equal opportunities employer
We believe in diversity, equity and inclusion.
We believe that diversity fosters innovation and creativity, and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all.