Project Manager
MBDA UK
Stevenage, SG1
£50000 - £60000/annum
Full time
NEW
About the role
With the recent growth across our Project Management function, we have opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated Project Managers to join our team. You will have an opportunity to grow your skills and develop your career within a collaborative and encouraging environment. We are open to various levels of previous experience, as we are currently recruiting for a range of positions that require proven knowledge at varying levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Working in an exciting, complex and changing environment, where there are opportunities to contribute and make a difference in delivering capability to our customers.
- A great platform to embed your partner/stakeholder management skills, across a diverse multi-functional, international organisation.
- Exposure to working within a vibrant Project Management community.
- Opportunity to gain professional/accredited project management qualification.
- High‑level integration between functional directorates and customers within the UK and our European counterparts.
- Opportunities for progression across MBDA.
Eligibility & Security
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply.
All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
Benefits
- Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
- Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
Qualifications
- Project / Programme Management experience – ideally gained in a matrix organisation.
- Strong risk management skills and experience.
- Sound business judgement, including an appreciation of complex problems and how to solve them.
- Strong communication and motivational skills.
- Ability to embrace new challenges and deal with a level of ambiguity.
- Experience of leading projects from a business perspective, including EVM, schedule adherence and schedule risk assessments.
- Bidding & estimating experience.
- Negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to establish and maintain relationships and work collaboratively across various levels and with internal and external collaborators.
- Drive and motivation in leading project teams to strive for excellence in the face of adversity.
- Engage, share standard methodology and find opportunities for innovation.
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