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Project Manager resume: examples, skills & ATS keywords

PM resumes win on delivery: scope, budget, timeline, and stakeholders. Show projects delivered on time and on budget.

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Project Manager resume example

An illustrative template to adapt — swap in your real roles and figures, and never include a number you can't back up in an interview.

Jordan Taylor

Project Manager · City, Country · email@example.com

Professional summary

Delivery-focused project manager with 7 years running cross-functional projects on time and on budget, across Agile and waterfall.

Experience

Senior Project Manager — Company Name · 2021–Present

  • Delivered a £2M system migration on time and 8% under budget, coordinating 5 vendors.
  • Led a 15-person cross-functional team with Agile/Scrum, improving on-time delivery to 95%.
  • Introduced risk and reporting processes (Jira, RAID logs) that curbed scope creep on a 9-month programme.
  • Ran weekly steering across 20+ stakeholders to keep delivery aligned.

Key skills

project planning · Agile · Scrum · stakeholder management · risk management · budgeting · Jira · roadmaps · PMP · cross-functional leadership

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Top skills & ATS keywords for a Project Manager

These are the terms recruiters and applicant tracking systems most often scan for. Include the ones you genuinely have — worded the way the job description words them.

  • Project planning
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk management
  • Budgeting
  • Jira
  • Roadmaps
  • PMP
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Resource planning
  • Reporting

How to write a standout Project Manager resume

  • Quantify scope — team size, budget, timeline, number of stakeholders.
  • Name your methodology and tools (Agile/Scrum, Jira, MS Project).
  • If you hold PMP/PRINCE2, put it in the header and summary.
  • Never invent experience — recruiters and interviews catch it. See AI CV tailoring without lying and how ATS keywords work.

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