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About the job 

The SaaS team is looking for a R&D Project Manager to lead the planning and execution of projects supporting SAS’s Software as a Service offerings. Our team operates at the forefront of software innovation at SAS, helping shape how our products evolve into cloud-native, CI/CD-driven solutions built for the future.  

This role is responsible for ensuring projects are delivered predictably, aligned to business goals, and executed with high quality across a dynamic, globally distributed environment. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to drive execution, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment across stakeholders. 

You will operate across the full project lifecycle from planning and estimation through execution and delivery while helping teams navigate complexity in a modern, CI/CD driven SaaS environment. 

We’re a collaborative, supportive, and high-performing team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement—and we’d love for you to be part of what we’re building. 

 As a R&D Project Manager, you will:  

• Completes deadline-driven, team-based projects. Responsible for facilitating overall project objectives, goals and project requirements. Works with team and stakeholders to define project scope and goals.
• Plans, prioritizes, implements and adjusts delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual project requirements per consultation with project stakeholders.
• Negotiates resource needs and coordinates technical resources for assigned projects, including both domestic and international resources.
• Maintains project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports.
• Coordinates, communicates, and facilitates activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage conflict.  
• Coordinates risk mitigation activity and escalations as appropriate. 
• Manages project scope and expectations. Identifies and constructively negotiates conflicts or areas of high risk
• Leverages methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery.
• Identifies project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivery of final product. Acts as central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Marketing and SAS.com to ensure project success.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Coordinate and lead meetings with stakeholders and customers to maintain forward momentum.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do. 

 Required qualifications 

• 5 years of experience in software project management, preferably in agile environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Proven experience delivering projects end-to-end across planning, execution, and delivery
• Strong experience working in SaaS or continuous delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution
• Proven experience in a customer facing project management role.
• Proof of right to work in the UK
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. 

 Additional competencies, knowledge and skills 

• Communication - Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others.
• Driving for results - Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
• Building Trusting Relationships - Using appropriate interpersonal styles to establish effective relationships with customers and internal partners; interacting with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions.
• PMP, CSM or equivalent certifications
• Ability to influence without authority
• Ability to manage pressure, deadlines, and competing priorities 

You are welcome here. 

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.  

Additional Information: 

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