Job Description
£45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience (plus excellent benefits*) to ideally start ASAP
As demand for our products and services continues to grow across the Defence sector, we are seeking a proactive, organised, and delivery focused Project Manager to lead, support and coordinate key programmes across the UK and international markets.
In this role, you will oversee endtoend project delivery performance for assigned projects, build strong customer relationships, and ensure our delivery teams are set up to successfully deliver to our contractual commitments.
Working closely across our organisation with operational delivery, business development, product and engineering teams, you will help shape, deliver, and continuously improve projects that support our customers’ decisionmaking and capability development.
As a Cervus Project Manager, you will:
* Lead the planning, coordination, delivery, and reporting of projects across assigned UK and international Defence customers, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality expectations are met.
* Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across the Armed forces, Defence primes, and wider defence ecosystem.
* Coordinate crossfunctional teams and team leads, including engineering, delivery, and product management - to ensure clarity, alignment, and seamless execution.
* Support the development of proposals, delivery plans, and customer documentation.
* Track progress against milestones, manage risks and issues, and provide structured project reporting.
* Ensure project activities align with Cervus’ quality management processes and contribute to maintaining compliance with ISO 9001 principles.
* Represent Cervus at customer meetings, demonstrations, and industry events.
* Identify opportunities for process, product, and service improvement, championing customer needs throughout.
We expect you to have:
* Experience delivering projects within Defence, government, technology, or similarly complex environments.
* Strong project planning, coordination, and stakeholdermanagement skills.
* Experience managing project finances, reporting, forecasting, or delivery pipelines.
* Awareness of ISO 9001 quality management principles and an understanding of how they support consistent and effective project delivery.
* High IT proficiency and the ability to quickly understand new technologies and data enabled systems.
* The ability to interpret customer challenges and translate them into clear, deliverable project outputs.
* The ability to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
* A collaborative mindset, positive attitude, and sense of humour.
We’d love it if you also have:
* Experience working internationally or supporting exportfocused programmes.
* Formal project or programme management training/accreditation (e.g., APM, PRINCE2, Agile).
* Experience with analytics, data platforms, simulation environments, or softwareled solutions.
* A full UK driving licence.
Why join Cervus?
Cervus is a performance analytics and technology company supporting defence and security organisations make better decisions, faster. Based in the southwest UK with offices in Bristol and Westbury, we value hybrid working, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Joining us means contributing to meaningful, high impact projects, working with talented colleagues, and helping shape the future of data driven capability development.
This role typically involves 1–2 days per week in the office and travel within the UK and overseas.
How to apply:
We’re committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and in the workplace.
We will review applications on an ongoing basis and will keep the role open until we find the right candidate. If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as you’re ready.
If you have questions about the role or require any adjustments, please contact infocareers@cervus.ai.