Project Manager

Clue Computing Co.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive software company in Bristol is seeking a Project Manager to drive the delivery of customer-facing implementation projects. This role involves managing project timelines, budgets, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful project execution. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SaaS implementation, excellent stakeholder management skills, and experience in a scale-up environment. This position offers a salary of up to £65,000 and promotes a flexible work culture.

Benefits

Share Options (EMI) scheme

25 days annual leave plus flexible bank holidays

Enhanced workplace Pension scheme

Life Insurance (3x annual salary)

Employee Assistance Programme

Private Healthcare cash-back scheme

Flexible working hours and location

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing SaaS implementation project management role or similar.
• Excellent track record with internal and external stakeholder management.
• Demonstrable experience managing risks, issues and changes.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing implementation projects.
• Actively managing the project plan, scope, timelines, budget and resource allocation.
• Translate technically complex scope and requirements into delivery plans.

Skills

Customer-facing SaaS implementation project management

Stakeholder management

Risk and issue management

CRM/Professional Services tools

Project management methodologies

Education

PRINCE 2 or similar qualification

Tools

Salesforce

Asana

Job description

Our benefits

• Share Options (EMI) scheme
• 25 days annual leave, plus flexible bank holidaysand the opportunity to buy additional days
• Enhanced workplace Pension scheme - opt in salary sacrifice scheme
• Life Insurance (3x annual salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and workplace wellbeing initiatives
• Private Healthcare cash-back scheme
• Flexible working hours and location, open to part-time/ condensed hours
• Flexible benefits, such as: Cycle to Work, volunteer days/ opportunities and charity events
• Enhanced parental leave packages and enhanced sick pay
• Training and development opportunities
• Engagement and celebration activities– anniversaries, birthdays, team building, company-wide events

Role specifics

• Salary range: up to £65,000
• Reporting to: Director of Professional Services
• Key stakeholders: Professional Services, Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product
• Organisational Framework Level: 3

In this customer-facing Professional Services Team, you will manage implementation projects for key and complex customers. Applying project management methodologies and structure to ensure Clue customer projects are delivered on time and to budget in line with customers objectives. You will have a focus on continuous improvement and scalability to support Clue’s ambitious growth plans.

At Clue Software, we’re actively adopting AI to enhance our products and workflows. You'll bring curiosity and a willingness to leverage AI tools and approaches that drive innovation.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing implementation projects, including project costing, planning, and management of risk and issues
• Actively managing the project plan, scope, timelines, budget and resource allocation
• Act as the key point of contact for customers through the implementation process ensuring plans and timelines are aligned between us and the customer, ensuring clear communication
• Translating technically complex scope and requirements into delivery plans and keeping projects on track
• Keeping projects on track, owning the tracking, and presenting succinct reporting to senior stakeholders, automating where possible
• Leading status and project health updates
• Supporting resource allocation
• Confidence in facilitating workshops and leading meetings with key stakeholders
• Be responsible for the supporting documentation of business requirements, configuration, notes and actions
• Support continued profitability and growth within the Professional Services team and the wider business
• Identifying cross-sell and upsell opportunities for further growth within the customer base, based on learnings from the projects and customer needs
• Upholding the quality of the deliverables owned by Clue by ensuring the right levels of documentation, sign off and testing before delivering to the customer
• Leading on continuous improvement of processes and documentation to support customers and internal team members
• Supporting product development by understanding and translating customer use cases, feedback and problems

Key role measures

• Up-to date reporting to allow for accurate resource management and utilisation
• Focused on growth and profitability within Professional Services managing scope and changes
• Customer satisfaction scores
• Customer growth

Experience and skills

Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

• Experience in a customer-facing SaaS implementation project management role or similar
• Excellent track record with internal and external stakeholder management, allowing for a seamless transition from sale through to onboarding and handover, delivering excellent customer service
• Demonstrable experience managing risks, issues and changes, finding appropriate solutions whilst balancing customer expectations and experience, keeping implementation on track and maintaining the profitability/value of the project
• Experience using a CRM / Professional Services tools (advantageous if these are Salesforce / Asana)
• Confident working with senior stakeholders, understanding complex information and competing priorities
• Working with customers from public and private sector, from small to large scale matrixed organisations
• Experience of working in scale-up environment, self-motivated, and comfortable working at pace
• Navigating ambiguity, creating and improving processes to support efficiency, scalability and improvement
• Previous successful applications of project management methodologies
• Beneficial: PRINCE 2 or similar qualification, domain experience, enterprise-level project management

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us more about yourself. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We believe that seeing the world from all sorts of angles makes life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you an individual, like your identity, age, ethnicity, religion, ability and background, are things that we choose to celebrate and support.

We are a scale-up company, and as we continue to grow, we are passionate that having a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace will remain at our core. We are creating an inclusive environment where our people can thrive.

Our values are aligned and at the heart of everything we do. We are respectful, united, rigorous, relentless and ethical.