Vice President of Software Project Management

Vice President, Software Project ManagementFulltime

UKAre you a visionary leader with a passion for transforming software project delivery? Aptean is seeking a Vice President of Software Project Management to spearhead our growing project management organisation across the UK and Europe. This isn't just a leadership role; it's a chance to shape the future of how we deliver high-impact professional services projects, drive operational excellence, and build a truly best-in-class team.

With a professional services portfolio exceeding €45 million and supporting over 20 software products, this position is critical to our strategic execution, client satisfaction, and the scalability of our delivery frameworks in a dynamic international environment. If you're ready to be both strategic and hands-on in a role with significant impact, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leadership & Transformation: You'll lead, inspire, and develop a geographically distributed team of project and programme managers across the UK and Europe. Your mission will be to evolve our PMO into a high-performing, best-in-class organisation, embedding a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous delivery excellence.
• Project Management Excellence: You'll define, implement, and continuously refine our project management standards, frameworks, and governance across all projects. Expect to serve as an escalation point, directly engaging on high-risk, high-impact, or strategically critical projects to ensure their success. You'll also establish consistent KPIs and reporting frameworks for monitoring portfolio health and performance.
• Coaching & Mentoring: You'll provide hands-on coaching, mentoring, and development support to elevate your team's skills, confidence, and delivery capability. This includes identifying skill gaps and implementing tailored training initiatives.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Partner closely with executive leadership, sales, product, and services teams to ensure complete alignment between project execution and overall business strategy. You'll play a key role in strategic planning and resource allocation for our rapidly growing project portfolio, and support sales/pre-sales teams in scoping and pricing large, complex client engagements.
• Stakeholder Management: You'll cultivate robust relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including our valued customers, ensuring alignment and satisfaction throughout every project lifecycle. Proactively managing risk, issues, and change with transparent communication will be key, and you'll be comfortable engaging directly with clients, even in challenging scenarios, to drive successful outcomes.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven Leadership: Extensive experience in a VP-level or senior programme/project management leadership role within the software or professional services industry, ideally with a strong background in leading and transforming a PMO or project delivery function.
• Portfolio Management: Demonstrated expertise managing large, complex, and distributed project portfolios, ideally exceeding €40M in value.
• Methodology Mastery: Strong command of both traditional and agile/hybrid project management methodologies. Certifications like PMP, PRINCE2, or SAFe are a definite plus.
• Transformational Success: A track record of successfully transforming project organisations and significantly elevating team performance.
• Exceptional People Skills: Outstanding leadership, people management, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• International Acumen: Solid experience operating across UK and European markets, coupled with strong cultural fluency and the ability to effectively lead cross-border teams.
• Strategic & Hands-on: The agility to be both a strategic visionary and a highly hands-on leader, ready to dive into project rescues, client escalations, or delivery challenges when needed. Your ability to get stuck in with customer-facing scenarios is crucial.

What's in it for you?

• Transformational Impact: The unique opportunity to lead and transform a critical function within a global software leader.
• Strategic Influence: Directly impact business strategy and drive operational excellence across a significant international portfolio.
• Growth Environment: Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth global company with ample opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a diverse and talented team that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

About ApteanAptean is changing. Our ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 4,000 employees, 50 different products, and a global client base, there's no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today. Learn from our differences. Celebrate our diversity. Grow and succeed together.