Job Vacancy IT Project Delivery Manager
Glasgow
CGI
Published on 03/11/2026
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At CGI, we’re helping public sector organisations transform the way they deliver essential services through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. As an IT Project Delivery Manager supporting a key Public Sector client, you’ll lead a significant portfolio of technology change, driving measurable outcomes for our client and sustainable growth for CGI. You’ll take ownership of complex programmes, build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and inspire multidisciplinary teams to deliver lasting value. With the freedom to shape delivery strategies, influence technology innovation and make commercially impactful decisions, you’ll be supported by a collaborative community of experts who share your commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
This is a hybrid position, but you will be expected to spend at least 2 days a week at our office or on client site in Glasgow.
Candidate profile
In this role, you will take ownership of a complex technology change portfolio, leading a team of Project Managers and coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams to achieve successful client and commercial outcomes. You’ll oversee programmes from planning through to delivery, ensuring strong governance, effective resource management and consistent achievement of contractual commitments. As a trusted adviser, you’ll develop strategic relationships with senior client stakeholders, understand their evolving priorities and identify opportunities to deliver greater value through technology-enabled transformation.
You’ll also play a key role in the financial and commercial performance of the account, managing a portfolio valued at over £5 million while balancing delivery excellence, profitability and sustainable growth. Working closely with account leadership, technology practices, partners and suppliers, you’ll influence strategic decisions, support business development and champion continuous improvement. You’ll have the autonomy to shape delivery approaches, explore innovative solutions and strengthen client partnerships, supported by experienced colleagues and a culture that encourages collaboration, professional development and shared success.
Your key responsibilities will include:
• Lead & Deliver: Take accountability for a complex portfolio of technology change programmes, ensuring successful delivery against agreed objectives, timelines, budgets and client expectations.
• Inspire & Collaborate: Lead Project Managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams, fostering accountability, collaboration and high performance across CGI, partner and supplier organisations.
• Build & Strengthen Relationships: Develop trusted partnerships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a strategic adviser and ensuring delivery aligns with client priorities.
• Own Financial Performance: Manage portfolio revenue, budgets, costs, forecasting, margins and profitability, identifying risks and implementing corrective actions to protect commercial performance.
• Govern & Optimise: Establish effective programme governance, reporting, risk management, dependency management and change control to maintain delivery quality and contractual compliance.
• Plan & Resource: Coordinate resource requirements, capability needs and delivery priorities across CGI business units and strategic partners.
• Drive Strategic Growth: Support account planning, opportunity identification, pipeline development, bids and proposals to strengthen client relationships and deliver sustainable business growth.
• Manage & Influence Partners: Oversee supplier and partner performance, ensuring contractual obligations, delivery standards and commercial expectations are consistently achieved.
• Innovate & Improve: Collaborate with technology practice leaders to identify emerging solutions, improve delivery models and enhance the value of CGI's services.
• Report & Advise: Provide clear financial, operational and programme reporting to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
To succeed in this role, you should be an experienced technology programme or portfolio delivery leader with a strong track record of managing complex engagements within commercially focused environments. You'll bring exceptional financial management capability, strategic client relationship skills and the confidence to lead multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners. Your ability to balance operational excellence with commercial awareness, sound judgement and collaborative leadership will be essential in delivering successful outcomes for CGI and our public sector clients.
Essential skills and experience:
• Project & Portfolio Leadership: Proven experience managing complex technology programmes, transformation initiatives or portfolios, including engagements ranging from £25,000 to over £3 million.
• Portfolio Financial Management: Demonstrable experience managing a portfolio valued at over £5 million, with strong expertise in revenue, budgeting, forecasting, costs, margins and profitability.
• Commercial Acumen: Exceptional understanding of contractual obligations, commercial risk, scope management, cost control and profitability.
• Public Sector Experience: Strong understanding of public sector organisations, their technology requirements and operating environments.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing expectations effectively.
• Delivery Leadership: Experience leading Project Managers, large technology delivery teams and multidisciplinary partner ecosystems.
• Supplier & Partner Management: Strong track record of managing third-party suppliers and strategic delivery partners, ensuring performance, governance and contractual compliance.
• Programme Governance: Strong experience in risk management, dependency management, change control, benefits realisation and portfolio reporting.
• Financial Reporting: Ability to provide accurate financial forecasts, performance analysis and portfolio reporting to senior leadership.
• Business Development: Experience contributing to account growth, opportunity identification, bids, proposals and strategic account planning.
• Technology Understanding: Experience working alongside technology practices such as application development, data, platforms or infrastructure.
• Leadership & Communication: Excellent influencing, negotiation, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to operate effectively at strategic and operational levels.
• Professional Qualifications: Relevant programme or project management certification, such as MSP, PRINCE2, AgilePM or equivalent.
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You’ll also play a key role in the financial and commercial performance of the account, managing a portfolio valued at over £5 million while balancing delivery excellence, profitability and sustainable growth. Working closely with account leadership, technology practices, partners and suppliers, you’ll influence strategic decisions, support business development and champion continuous improvement. You’ll have the autonomy to shape delivery approaches, explore innovative solutions and strengthen client partnerships, supported by experienced colleagues and a culture that encourages collaboration, professional development and shared success.
Your key responsibilities will include:
• Lead & Deliver: Take accountability for a complex portfolio of technology change programmes, ensuring successful delivery against agreed objectives, timelines, budgets and client expectations.
• Inspire & Collaborate: Lead Project Managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams, fostering accountability, collaboration and high performance across CGI, partner and supplier organisations.
• Build & Strengthen Relationships: Develop trusted partnerships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a strategic adviser and ensuring delivery aligns with client priorities.
• Own Financial Performance: Manage portfolio revenue, budgets, costs, forecasting, margins and profitability, identifying risks and implementing corrective actions to protect commercial performance.
• Govern & Optimise: Establish effective programme governance, reporting, risk management, dependency management and change control to maintain delivery quality and contractual compliance.
• Plan & Resource: Coordinate resource requirements, capability needs and delivery priorities across CGI business units and strategic partners.
• Drive Strategic Growth: Support account planning, opportunity identification, pipeline development, bids and proposals to strengthen client relationships and deliver sustainable business growth.
• Manage & Influence Partners: Oversee supplier and partner performance, ensuring contractual obligations, delivery standards and commercial expectations are consistently achieved.
• Innovate & Improve: Collaborate with technology practice leaders to identify emerging solutions, improve delivery models and enhance the value of CGI's services.
• Report & Advise: Provide clear financial, operational and programme reporting to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
To succeed in this role, you should be an experienced technology programme or portfolio delivery leader with a strong track record of managing complex engagements within commercially focused environments. You'll bring exceptional financial management capability, strategic client relationship skills and the confidence to lead multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners. Your ability to balance operational excellence with commercial awareness, sound judgement and collaborative leadership will be essential in delivering successful outcomes for CGI and our public sector clients.
Essential skills and experience:
• Project & Portfolio Leadership: Proven experience managing complex technology programmes, transformation initiatives or portfolios, including engagements ranging from £25,000 to over £3 million.
• Portfolio Financial Management: Demonstrable experience managing a portfolio valued at over £5 million, with strong expertise in revenue, budgeting, forecasting, costs, margins and profitability.
• Commercial Acumen: Exceptional understanding of contractual obligations, commercial risk, scope management, cost control and profitability.
• Public Sector Experience: Strong understanding of public sector organisations, their technology requirements and operating environments.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing expectations effectively.
• Delivery Leadership: Experience leading Project Managers, large technology delivery teams and multidisciplinary partner ecosystems.
• Supplier & Partner Management: Strong track record of managing third-party suppliers and strategic delivery partners, ensuring performance, governance and contractual compliance.
• Programme Governance: Strong experience in risk management, dependency management, change control, benefits realisation and portfolio reporting.
• Financial Reporting: Ability to provide accurate financial forecasts, performance analysis and portfolio reporting to senior leadership.
• Business Development: Experience contributing to account growth, opportunity identification, bids, proposals and strategic account planning.
• Technology Understanding: Experience working alongside technology practices such as application development, data, platforms or infrastructure.
• Leadership & Communication: Excellent influencing, negotiation, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to operate effectively at strategic and operational levels.
• Professional Qualifications: Relevant programme or project management certification, such as MSP, PRINCE2, AgilePM or equivalent.
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Working environment
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
London, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
IT services
We are a global business with 91,500 professionals across hundreds of locations worldwide, providing end-to-end IT and business process services that drive our clients’ businesses. In the UK alone, we have around 6,000 member-partners working across 19 towns and cities, doing everything from writing complex code to designing sophisticated software solutions. The work we do powers some of the most ambitious projects that touch the lives of many.
Our approach sets us apart, characterised by our proximity model, international presence, expertise, and operational excellence. We organise our operations within metro markets where our clients have concentrated footprints, empowering our local teams to build trusted, in-person relationships. As you build your career here, you’ll develop your skills, share your insights, and work side-by-side with colleagues and clients on innovative solutions that address the most complex issues.
Our commitment to ownership, flexibility, and being approachable makes us easy to do business with. Join us, and together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action to meet the needs and balance the interests of our clients, shareholders, communities, and each other.
Benefits:
- Insurance coverage
- Medical benefits
- Pension plan
- Member Assistant Programme
- Check4Cancer
- Flexible time off
- Share Purchase Plan
- Member discounts
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Profit Participation Plan
- Health and Wellbeing Programme
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