Project Management Apprentice
ROYAL MAIL GROUP LIMITED
Recruiting nationally
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026)
Posted on 19 March 2026
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Summary
Over four years, you will learn how to plan, run, and deliver real projects that help keep Royal Mail moving. You’ll work with different teams across the UK, learn new skills, and make a real impact.
This is your chance to build a strong future, learn from experts, and become a leader of tomorrow.
- Wage
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£24,100 a year
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Starting Salary: £24,100 (National) or £25,100 (Inner and Outer London)
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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This role may include early, late, night or weekend shifts. You may also travel to different sites across the UK and sometimes stay overnight.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 July 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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4
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
What You Will Do
As a Project Management Apprentice, you will:
- Help create clear project plans and goals.
- Work with project managers to organise people and tasks.
- Spot possible problems and help find solutions.
- Write up meeting notes and keep project records up to date.
- Check that work meets the right quality standards.
- Learn how our business works and how we help our customers every day.
Where you'll work
If successful the role will be based at your local Mail Centre or Hub.
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BLACKPOOL AND THE FYLDE COLLEGE
Training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
- The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
- Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
- Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
- Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
- Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
- Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
- Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.
Training schedule
You will spend one day a week learning through online lessons and workshops. The rest of the week, you’ll be working on real projects that make a difference.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Any (must have 5 GCSE's total) (grade C/4 or above)
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
Currently have the Right to Work in the UK for the full 4-year programme.
You do not need to know about project management already.
We are looking for people who are:
- Good with numbers.
- Careful and organised.
- Happy working with others.
- Eager to learn.
- Proud of doing a good job.
About this employer
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses. We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs. Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate. For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Company benefits
- A strong company pension scheme.
- Free support for your physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing.
- Family-friendly benefits like enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
- Discounts on shopping, travel, tech, and more.
After this apprenticeship
There are potentially various options available – it could be Project Manager roles, but we will look at other roles depending on the vacancies available.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BLACKPOOL AND THE FYLDE COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000022112.
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Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026)
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