Project Manager - Bid Management
Posted Today by 1774433209
£695 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Woking
Summary: The Project Manager role focuses on delivering complex hardware and software programs within a defense environment, specifically involving the UK Ministry of Defence. The position requires SC clearance and entails significant responsibilities in project management, including planning, resource allocation, and stakeholder communication. The role is hybrid, requiring on-site presence at least two days a week in locations such as Romsey, Gloucester, or Woking. Candidates must have extensive experience in managing bids and projects up to £5 million.
Key Responsibilities:
- Defining project purpose, goals, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Creating a comprehensive project plan with timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
- Identifying, recruiting, and allocating necessary resources for project tasks.
- Estimating project costs, developing budgets, and monitoring expenses.
- Leading and motivating the project team while resolving conflicts.
- Identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies.
- Tracking project progress and implementing corrective measures as needed.
- Managing communication and expectations with clients and stakeholders.
- Maintaining thorough documentation and preparing status reports.
- Ensuring quality standards are met for all deliverables.
- Formalizing project completion and documenting lessons learned.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in managing hardware/software bids up to £5 million.
- SC clearance.
- Experience with the UK Ministry of Defence.
- Ability to work through complicated situations while maintaining communication.
- Solid financial and commercial awareness.
- Pre-sale/bid delivery experience.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering bids and projects.
- Experience in rapid prototyping and development projects.
- APM PMQ/PMI/Prince 2/Agile/PMP qualifications.
- Experience with complex international suppliers/programmes.
Salary (Rate): £695 daily
City: Woking
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Project Manager
- Location: Role can work out of Romsey, Gloucester or Woking min 2 days per week onsite
- Clearance: SC clearance is essential
- Day Rate: £650 - £695 a day
- IR35: Inside
Skills:
+Extensive experience in managing hardware / software bids up to £5m
+SC clearance
+MOD
+Sole British national - due to nature of the project
We're looking for an experienced Project Manager to deliver complex hardware/software programmes within a defence environment, including work with the UK Ministry of Defence.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Project Definition and Scope Defining the project's purpose, goals, objectives, and specific deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure a clear understanding of what needs to be accomplished.
- Planning and Scheduling Creating a comprehensive project plan, including a detailed timeline, milestones, and dependencies, and developing a realistic schedule to ensure the project stays on track.
- Resource Management Identifying, recruiting, and allocating necessary resources (people, equipment, materials, finances) to specific tasks and ensuring they are used efficiently throughout the project.
- Budget Management Estimating project costs, developing a detailed budget, monitoring expenses regularly, and taking corrective action to ensure the project remains within financial constraints.
- Team Leadership Assembling, organizing, motivating, and leading the project team, providing guidance, resolving conflicts, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Risk Management Proactively identifying potential risks and issues, assessing their potential impact, developing mitigation strategies, and adapting the plan as needed when unexpected obstacles arise.
- Monitoring and Control Tracking project progress against the established plan, measuring performance using key indicators, and implementing corrective measures to address variances in scope, time, or cost.
- Communication and Stakeholder Management Serving as the central hub for all communication, providing regular updates to clients and stakeholders, managing their expectations, and ensuring their satisfaction with the project's outcomes.
- Documentation and Reporting Maintaining thorough documentation of all project activities, decisions, changes, and progress, and preparing status reports for stakeholders and future reference.
- Quality Assurance Ensuring that all work is completed to the required standards and that the final deliverables meet the quality criteria set during the planning phase.
- Project Closure Formalizing the completion of the project, obtaining final approval from the client, archiving project records, and documenting lessons learned for future projects
Knowledge & Experience Required:
- Excellent Stakeholder Management and demonstrable experience of building excellent relationships both internally and with key client stakeholders.
- Extensive experience in managing hardware / software bids and projects that range from conceptual research through to sub-system development, delivery, and support of programmes up to £5m.
- Experience in rapid prototyping and accelerating development projects for UORs
- Able to work through complicated situations whilst maintaining communications with multiple stakeholders.
- Solid financial and commercial awareness and experience of negotiation.
- Must be flexible and willing to contribute where needed in the business cycle to further the team's success.
- Pre-sale / bid delivery experience and a thorough understanding of the business lifecycle.
- Proved track record of successfully delivering bids and projects.
- Able to operate in a deadline focussed environment
- Experience of working with the UK Ministry of Defence, preferably taking a leading role delivering framework / product projects
- Experience in products, product development and research and consultancy
- Able to lead effectively in a multi-functional team
- Risk and Opportunity management experience
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task across multiple bids/platforms
- Commercial awareness / frameworks
- Experience of developing and managing Subcontractor Relationship Management and collaborative working
- Experience of working with complex international suppliers/ programmes.
- APM PMQ/ PMI / Prince 2/ Agile/ PMP Qualifications.
- Bidding training/qualifications welcomed
If you'd like to discuss this Project Manager role in more detail, please send your updated CV to chloe.manerowski@cbsbutler.com and I will get in touch.
