Project Manager

Position Description:

At CGI, our Project Managers turn complex transformation into measurable outcomes. You will lead high-value IT projects for a major energy client, bringing together ERP, including SAP S/4HANA, Operations/HSE and Digital & Analytics delivery in a complex multi-vendor environment. You’ll have the ownership to shape delivery, apply creative thinking to solve challenges and help introduce safe, production-ready change in a highly regulated setting. Working alongside CGI and client experts, you’ll combine robust governance with Agile techniques where appropriate, supported by CGI’s proven methods, global delivery capability and deep sector expertise. This is an opportunity to influence critical transformation, strengthen client outcomes and grow your career within a collaborative community that supports you to succeed. 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 role is based in Aberdeen and requires regular on-site presence, typically three days per week, enabling close collaboration with CGI and client teams.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role, you will take ownership of planning and delivering complex IT integration and transformation projects, providing the structure, governance and momentum needed to achieve successful outcomes. Working within client PMO and stage-gate processes, you will coordinate cross-functional teams spanning ERP, Operations/HSE, infrastructure and Digital & Analytics while maintaining clear oversight of scope, budgets, risks and dependencies. You will build trusted relationships across business and IT teams, creating an environment where ideas can be explored, challenges resolved and informed decisions made. Supported by CGI’s collaborative community and established delivery methods, you will coordinate multiple suppliers and help ensure changes to production and HSE-critical systems are introduced safely and successfully.

• Plan & Govern: Own project plans, budgets, RAID controls, reporting and governance across multiple workstreams.

• Lead & Coordinate: Bring together cross-functional teams, establishing clear scope, dependencies, responsibilities and hand-offs.

• Manage Risk & Vendors: Proactively address risks, issues and dependencies while coordinating CGI, client and third-party suppliers.

• Engage & Influence: Build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders, manage expectations and facilitate effective decision-making.

• Deliver Change Safely: Lead cutover, go-live and hypercare planning, ensuring robust runbooks and effective transition into BAU.

• Improve & Innovate: Apply proven CGI methods, metrics and lessons learned while identifying creative opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

You will bring substantial experience managing medium-to-large IT projects, ideally involving integration, migration or transformation within energy, utilities or another complex environment. You will be confident combining structured governance with strong commercial, stakeholder and delivery management, while working collaboratively across technical teams and multiple suppliers.

• Essential certification: PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP.

• Project experience: Experience in IT project delivery, including large-scale integration, migration or transformation.

• Governance: Strong experience of project governance, stage-gate delivery, RAID management and project reporting.

• Commercial management: Proven capability in budget control, financial tracking and third-party/vendor management.

• Stakeholder leadership: Strong ability to engage and influence senior business and IT stakeholders in complex environments.

• Multi-vendor delivery: Proven experience coordinating multiple technical teams, suppliers and delivery dependencies.

• Sector knowledge: Oil & Gas or wider energy-sector experience is preferred.

• Functional knowledge: Relevant experience aligned to the project area, such as SAP/ERP project management or infrastructure/IM delivery.

• Additional qualifications: ITIL Foundation and Agile/Scrum certification are desirable. #LI-SF2

Skills:

• Microsoft Project

• Project Management Office

• Stakeholder management

What you can expect from us:

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