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Project Manager

Job Posted: 3 days ago

Salary: £ 50,000 - 56,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Hertfordshire

Expire in: 24 days

Job Description

Project Manager

Location: Hertfordshire
 Salary: £50,000 - £56,000 depending on experience
 Working Pattern: Hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week on site
 Security Clearance: British Citizen or Dual UK National with British citizenship. Successful candidates will be required to undergo BPSS clearance as a minimum.

The Opportunity

We're supporting a leading defence organisation in the search for a Senior Project Manager to join a growing and highly successful project management community.

This is an opportunity to work across the full programme lifecycle, supporting both business-winning activities and the delivery of complex engineering programmes. You'll play a key role in shaping future opportunities, developing winning propositions and ensuring successful delivery against customer, cost, schedule and performance commitments.

Working in a highly collaborative environment, you'll engage with engineering, commercial, finance, supply chain and customer stakeholders while helping to deliver some of the UK's most advanced defence programmes.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the planning, execution and delivery of complex projects and programmes.
Support bid, proposal and business-winning activities, helping develop compelling and achievable customer solutions.
Manage project schedules, costs, risks and resources throughout the programme lifecycle.
Build strong relationships with customers, partners and internal stakeholders.
Coordinate multi-functional teams to achieve programme objectives.
Support programme governance, reporting and decision-making activities.
Drive proactive risk and opportunity management.
Contribute to project estimating, forecasting and resource planning.
Ensure delivery commitments are achieved while maintaining quality, cost and schedule objectives.
Promote continuous improvement and project management best practice.

What We're Looking For

Previous Project or Programme Management experience, ideally within engineering, manufacturing, aerospace or defence environments.
Experience operating within a matrix organisation.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience managing programme risk, cost and schedule performance.
Understanding of project controls, schedule management and Earned Value Management (EVM).
Experience influencing and negotiating across multiple functions.
Commercial awareness and sound business judgement.
Ability to work effectively within complex and evolving environments.
Bid, proposal or business-winning experience would be advantageous.
Professional project management qualifications (APM, Prince2, PMP or equivalent) are beneficial.

What's on Offer

Annual bonus
Pension contributions up to 14%
Flexi-leave scheme with up to 15 additional days
Overtime opportunities
Enhanced parental leave benefits
Hybrid working arrangements
Excellent career development and progression opportunities
Access to a well-established and supportive project management community
Opportunity to work on strategically important defence programmesThis role would suit Project Managers, Programme Managers, Delivery Managers, Bid Managers or Senior PM professionals looking to combine programme delivery with business-winning activity within a complex engineering environment.

Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law. 

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers. 

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