Role description
- Reporting to Associate / Project Director. Providing support and engaging to ensure appropriate information is provided and advising on project delivery issues.
- Direct Reports: Assistant Project Manager and Project Manager (4-5 reports and 4-5 resources in direct reports, depending on project scale).
- Accountable for delivery of a project or a small number of projects with reasonable complexity up to £30m in value—meeting budget, quality and time metrics.
- Operationally manage core projects or programmes to deliver defined objectives.
- Responsible for delivering scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, as well as deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.
- Set project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders.
- Establish project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery.
- Performance manage project team / resources.
- Stakeholder engagement to agree objectives, communicate status and facilitate resolution of issues and risks.
- Lead and advise on best practice and approaches to ensure compliance with defined processes and systems.
Role accountabilities
- Manage client stakeholders, agree objectives, communicate status and facilitate resolution of issues and risks.
- Oversee agreed scope of work and operational workload of a team or contractors, ensuring allocated work is completed and resources fully utilised to deliver agreed programme.
- Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules, track and manage budgets, highlight variances to control delivery targets.
- Deliver a number of small to medium‑scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets.
- Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to prevent adverse impact and ensure compliance with standards.
- Provide advice to colleagues on behaviours to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes.
- Analyse and review data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends.
- Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision‑making.
- Use knowledge of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations to improve processes and systems.
- Collaborate effectively across the organisation to support delivery of projects/programmes to meet internal customer expectations.
- Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject‑matter advice to support successful delivery.
- Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, ensuring they are informed and aware of project progress; likely need to attend client offices 2-3 days a week.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
- Project management qualification (PMQ).
- NEC Accreditation (or equivalent experience, 5 years).
Relevant experience
- Management of small to medium sized projects (core projects).
- Commercial acumen and ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders.
- Expert level expertise in project management.
- Knowledge of infrastructure processes (preferably highways) and understanding of wider programme and business.
- Experience managing business relationships at senior‑management level.
- Working knowledge of tools used by National Highways: CONTRACTS (CEMAR), RiskHive, P6.
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