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A project manager's CV is a list of delivered projects: what each one was, its budget and team, what you did when it went off track, and how it ended. Give your method and qualification once, then let the projects prove them. This example is an IT and digital project manager with seven years in housing and healthcare.

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Olivia Brooks
Project Manager
Coventry · 07700 900184 · olivia.brooks@example.com · linkedin.com/in/olivia-brooks-example

Profile

Project manager with seven years delivering IT and digital change in housing and healthcare, on projects up to £1.2 million with teams of up to 12. Plans and runs projects with agile and stage-gated methods, keeps risks and budgets visible to sponsors and brings suppliers and staff along. APM PMQ and PRINCE2 Practitioner. Looking for a senior project or programme manager role.

Experience

Project Manager, Arden Homes Group, Coventry 2022–present

Led the £1.2 million move of 9,000 tenants' repairs bookings to a new online system with a team of 12, live on the planned date and £40,000 under budget.

Kept a weekly risk log and reported to the steering group each month; when the supplier's data migration slipped, re-planned testing so go-live held.

Ran fortnightly sprint reviews with repairs staff, which cut post-launch support calls by a third.

Manage three suppliers against contract milestones and sign off their deliverables.

Project Coordinator, then Project Manager, Mercia Health Support Services, Birmingham 2019–2022

Ran the roll-out of new rota software to 14 wards and kept the project plan, budget tracker and RAID log for four projects.

Qualifications

APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) 2023

PRINCE2 Practitioner 2020

BSc (Hons) Business Management, 2:1, University of Warwickshire Vale 2016–2019

Skills

Planning, scheduling and budget control

Risk and issue management

Agile delivery and stakeholder reporting

Jira, MS Project and Microsoft 365

Fictional example for a project manager. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

What project teams look for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you toWhere this CV shows it
Assess project tasks and risks, and allocate work to team membersA weekly risk log and a team of 12
Use project management software to plan and monitor workJira, MS Project, plans and budget trackers
Manage a budget, timescales and resources£1.2 million project live on the planned date, £40,000 under budget
Report on progress, check quality and deal with changes or delaysMonthly steering group reports and re-planning when migration slipped
Lead and motivate the project teamSprint reviews with repairs staff and three suppliers

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for an IT project manager; for construction or engineering projects, use that sector's profile.

Inside this example
  • Profile: 62 words here
  • Experience: 129 words here
  • Qualifications: 23 words here
  • Skills: 24 words here

How to write yours

01

Give every project its numbers

Budget, team size, dates and the result. Without them a project reads like a task.

02

Show one recovery

Employers hire project managers for the day the plan slips. Name one time it did and what you did.

03

Method once, proof everywhere

State agile, PRINCE2 or your own method in the profile, then let the bullets show it working.

04

Speak the sector's language

A housing, NHS or construction project manager is hired partly for knowing the sector. Name it.

Checks for a project manager's CV

  • Qualifications. The National Careers Service names the Association for Project Management and the Project Management Institute as professional bodies, and apprenticeships from Level 4. Give each qualification with its year; none is required by law.
  • Confidential figures. Use rounded budgets and percentages if exact contract values are confidential.
  • Length. Two pages are normal with several years of projects; keep the most recent in full and summarise older roles.

The Compact design fits seven years of projects on one page. With more, move to two pages rather than shrinking the type.

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