Project Manager apprentice (GWE) - Pfizer
Cogent Ssc Limited
Tadworth, Surrey (KT20 7NS)
Closes on Friday 27 February 2026
Posted on 26 November 2025
Contents
Summary
This is a great opportunity to work for one of the world’s innovative pharmaceutical companies. Pfizer is looking to recruit a Project Manager to support the global execution of all significant projects across the global portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives, design standards, and sustainability goals.
- Wage
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£20,500 a year
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 9.00am - 5.25pm. Fridays, 9.00am - 4.05pm.
12.00pm - 12.45pm, lunch break.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years 11 months
- Positions available
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1
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
Global Workplace Experience (GWE) Project Management Group is a key function within GWE supporting the global execution of all significant projects across the global portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives, design standards, and sustainability goals
Our mission is to ensure a best-in-class workplace that matters to our colleagues, to the business and to the enterprise.
- We influence a highly engaged global organisation that capitalises on external market knowledge.
- We deliver workplaces that encourage innovation and drive productivity.
- We create work experiences that enable our customers to do their best work.
- We establish dynamic relationships with the business to appreciate and anticipate needs and align prioritises.
Job Responsibilities
The Apprentice will support the Commercial Developed Markets Lead in various operational and organisational tasks, including programme management, organisational support, financial analysis, communications, and scheduling/governance tracking. This role involves coordinating activities, maintaining documentation, and ensuring smooth progress against deliverables. Additionally, the apprentice will assist in programme planning and execution, gaining hands-on experience in business management and project management.
The individual will be a key team member contributing and managing projects that vary from process improvements to organisational governance support, enabling use your project management skills to bring innovative solutions to our work. You will get the chance to work with regional teams for cross-site collaboration on your day-to-day responsibilities as well as taking gradual ownership of the projects you become involved with over time.
- Assist in the planning and scheduling of project activities.
Coordinate and track project tasks to ensure timely completion. - Support the preparation of project status reports and presentations.
- Communicate with team members and stakeholders to gather information and provide updates.
- Identify and escalate any issues or risks to the GWE Commercial Lead.
- Participate in project meetings and take detailed minutes.
- Assist in the development and implementation of project management processes and tools.
- Conduct finance analysis and support decision-making activities.
- Manage data, including data validation and ensuring data accuracy.
- Maintain and update organizational charts and headcount records.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
- Follow up with team members and stakeholders to ensure timely completion of tasks and deliverables.
Where you'll work
Pfizer Ltd
Walton Oaks
Dorking Road
Tadworth, Surrey
KT20 7NS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
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
Training for this role will be delivered online.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
Company benefits
Holiday Allowance - 25.5 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3% Flexible Working Hours Casual Dress Discount Scheme Employee Assistance Programme Onsite Canteen Onsite Parking Employee Recognition/Awards
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002669.
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Closes on Friday 27 February 2026
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