Location: Essex, Kent or London
Employment Type: Permanent
Working Arrangement: Office/Home Hybrid
Senior Project Manager responsible for managing the programme’s operating model, delivery partner integration, and centralised interface management for a major joint‑venture infrastructure project.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Operating Model, ensuring it is clear and well‑documented.
- Manage Delivery Partner Integration, ensuring alignment to collaborative working expectations.
- Oversee Centralised Interface Management to maintain an up‑to‑date and precise Interface Matrix.
- Identify structural integration gaps and support interface assurance.
- Manage day‑to‑day management, coordination and delivery of assigned project scope, ensuring alignment with programme baselines and performance objectives.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships to ensure shared understanding of project objectives—including safety, programme, risks and issues.
- Support the development of the team and provide pastoral care.
Qualifications
- Possess Chartered status or APM, MSP, PMQ (or equivalent).
- Previous experience leading teams to manage projects in the infrastructure sector.
- Experience designing or managing Operating Models, governance structures, or organisational frameworks.
- Experience in interface management and cross‑functional alignment.
- Skilled and experienced at defining roles, responsibilities and interfaces.
- Experience in managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans.
- Clear demonstration of commercial acumen with the capability to negotiate and oversee contracts to achieve results and ensure value for money.
- Experience in innovation, sustainability, and best practice in major programme delivery.
- Solid skills in facilitation, strategic clarity mapping, leadership and decision‑making ability.
- Clear and effective communicator with the ability to persuade others, with well‑developed structural and analytical thinking skills.
Benefits
- 28 days’ holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays.
- Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
- Private health care for you and your immediate dependents.
- Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
- Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
- Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
- Life assurance.
Equal Opportunity
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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