Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Farnborough + Remote

Brief

The UK's largest Defense and Security Company are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Senior Project Manager that takes pride in their work with an in-depth knowledge and experience leading the delivery of one or more high value complex projects.

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the Information Senior Project Manager will include:

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.
• Operating in a Safe & Secure manner.
• Embedding a culture in line with the values.
• Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales).
• Ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the performance management system.
• Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating.
• Maintenance of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work.
• Application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for foundation sales and delivery work.
• Reporting progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate).
• Ensuring correct entry of data onto SAP CRM relating to your opportunities, and maintain this data to reflect any changes in key inputs including: Order Value, Order Intake Scenario, (Low, Base, High, Excluded), Bid Due date, Closing Date, Sales Stage, Margin, Revenue Profile and up to date notes.

What experience you need to be the successful Senior Project Manager:

• Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level B.
• Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 3-5 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering complex projects.
• Experience delivering projects to 3 different customers.
• Leadership; being able to influence and align others towards the vision for the project, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.
• Integrity; being open, honest and doing the right thing. Keeping promises, admitting when I don't have the answer and when I have made a mistake.
• Communication; being able to effectively communicate as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning.
• Stakeholder Management; being able to identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs.
• Teamwork; being able to create an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.
• Human Resource Management; supporting functional teams (including HR) to develop and manage our people in line with legal requirements and policy.
• Business Development; being able to identify, qualify, develop and deliver solutions to your customers using an existing commercial framework contract (such as EDP) and be able to articulate the benefits of the solution to the customer.
• Negotiation & Conflict Management; being able to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.
• Foundation Sales; when required, work as a member of a capture team to generate delivery plans, risk registers and costings to support the creation of the proposal document.

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

Please be aware that this role requires eligibility for SC security clearance.

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