Project Manager - Automotive Technical Aftersales

Location: Gaydon, Warwickshire – hybrid working

Status: Full time permanent employee

Salary: Negotiable based on experience + Company Benefits

CAD-IT are currently looking for a highly motivated and experienced Project Manager to join our Technical Content team providing technical publications for a well‑known automotive OEM. The successful candidate will join the technical content team leading and facilitating the scoping, design and delivery of technical aftersales projects.

Responsibilities

• Agree project objectives, benefits and plans for delivering these with your project stakeholders
• Define project tasks and manage resource requirements accordingly
• Lead on the creation, ownership and maintenance of project documentation, for example; exception reports, risks and issues logs, user stories for Agile based projects
• Develop and manage project schedules and progress updates
• Provide direction and support to project teams
• Liaise with all key stakeholders and continuously monitor risks and issues
• Manage quality assurance
• Manage exceptions and changes in programmes and projects
• Provide input to relevant review meetings and represent the company as required
• Any other ad hoc management responsibilities as they arise

Skills and Experience

• A proven and successful background in project delivery at a senior level, with a broad range of project management skills, eg PRINCE2, PMP, SCRUM
• Experience of working in an Automotive environment or Engineering environment
• Experience in sprint planning, backlog maintenance, facilitating daily stand‑up calls, sprint reviews, capacity planning and sprint retrospectives
• Familiar with tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of collaborating closely and building excellent working relationships with customers, partners, and on‑site technical teams
• Pro‑active and pragmatic with regards to problem‑solving

Why CAD-IT?

We are a software sales and consulting company focusing primarily on industrial aftermarket, Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Industrial IoT and Augmented Reality application in Service. We are global partners with Siemens providing Service Business Strategy consultancy and support, Industry 4.0 for Service, outsourced technical publications support and digital transformation to industries globally.

We are passionate about innovation and work collaboratively to give our very best to our staff and customers. Job satisfaction, wellbeing and career progression are top of our list for our employees. Joining our dynamic, ambitious and friendly team you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential and be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity and rewards innovation, hard work, integrity, and merit.

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Enhanced Maternity pay
• Companywide and team social events, plus more!