Senior Project Manager

Summary: The Senior Project Manager role involves overseeing the delivery of a programme or portfolio of projects for a leading airline client, with a focus on change management. The position requires strong stakeholder management and governance skills, as well as the ability to manage complex projects in a fast-paced environment. This is a 6-month contract with the potential for extension, based in Waterside, Uxbridge, and requires a hybrid working arrangement. The role is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shapes, scopes, structures, plans and delivers a business change programme or a number of projects, responsible for driving, co-ordinating and delivering the plans to meet the business objectives, internal control needs and budgets
• Determines, establishes and manages appropriate and effective governance structures for the portfolio or programme, workstreams and projects that is effective at all levels and aligns with key departmental/corporate governance structures.
• Ensures appropriate involvement and commitment from stakeholders through successful management of expectations and clear communication at all levels.
• Manages robust processes for risks, issues and dependencies and change control.
• Identifies resource requirements to ensure successful delivery of the programme or projects, working closely with Head of Programme Delivery
• Ensures projects within the programme or portfolio are managed and regularly reviewed. Provides project, programme or portfolio updates to agreed schedule, process and standards and ensures effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Challenges the focus of the programme or portfolio and its projects to meet targets and escalate any shortfalls to the Head of Programme Delivery.
• Builds and develops business cases for projects with the finance team. Ensures robust plans in place for realisation of benefits.
• Manages and leads cross-functional project teams without line management accountability
• Owns all portfolio and programme administration and documentation, including programme plans.
• Stakeholders across client's Transform including but not limited to Finance, Procurement, Sustainability, People, Legal, Technology, Cyber
• Business Stakeholders in client's Operating Companies
• Head of Programme Delivery
• 3rd party suppliers
• Business Advisors
• Professional Project Management accreditation desirable eg Prince2/APMP (Association of Project Management Professionals), Agile
• Ability to manage complex programmes and projects in a fast-paced global environment, finite resources and conflicting priorities
• Ability to translate high-level business objectives into programme structures, project deliverables and plans ensuring alignment to business plan goals.
• Challenges focus of projects/programme to meet targets and initiates extra activities wherever gaps are identified.
• Demonstrates excellent planning, organisation and forecasting skills and experience of managing multiple projects/programmes and prioritises to meet objectives.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across a diverse geographic region. Demonstrates ability to influence, challenge and engage effectively at all levels.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work collaboratively, align diverse views and gain consensus, providing clarity on what is to be achieved.
• Demonstrates pro-active and forward-looking approach to the projects/programme such as managing risks and engagement with stakeholders. Recognises when to escalate.
• Ability to resolve complex issues through an objective and analytical approach, creating relevant clarity in areas of ambiguity, developing options and negotiating resolutions.
• Brings together cross-functional groups, leads discussions and achieves outcomes through a structured approach, effective workshop facilitation and collaboration.
• Good business acumen and commercial awareness which enables consideration of the wider impact and dependencies of projects and pre-empts issues.
• Project Management experience demonstrated by a significant track record of managing business change/transformation programmes and projects from scoping to implementation, delivering benefits through project leadership in complex or challenging environments, impacting stakeholders across different business areas.
• Experience of project managing business transformation and change projects with significant IT deliverables.
• Experience of full project/programme accountability and experience of working at a senior level.
• Experience of working and delivering under pressure, on complex projects working within a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Experience of leading cross-functional virtual project teams.
• Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers.
• Experience with outsourcing/insourcing projects desirable
• Fluent written and spoken English. Spanish language desirable
• Requirement to work from the office 3 days a week or more depending on project and stakeholder requirements.
• Willingness to some duty travel if a project requires this, likely limited to Barcelona, Madrid and Dublin

Key Skills:

• Professional Project Management accreditation desirable eg Prince2/APMP (Association of Project Management Professionals), Agile
• Ability to manage complex programmes and projects in a fast-paced global environment, finite resources and conflicting priorities
• Ability to translate high-level business objectives into programme structures, project deliverables and plans ensuring alignment to business plan goals.
• Excellent planning, organisation and forecasting skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across a diverse geographic region
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to resolve complex issues through an objective and analytical approach
• Good business acumen and commercial awareness
• Project Management experience demonstrated by a significant track record of managing business change/transformation programmes and projects
• Experience of project managing business transformation and change projects with significant IT deliverables
• Experience of full project/programme accountability and experience of working at a senior level
• Fluent written and spoken English; Spanish language desirable

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Uxbridge

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

We have an excellent contract job opportunity for Senior Project Manager role for our leading airline client.

Purpose of the role

Accountable for the delivery of a programme, a portfolio of projects, or a significant project for leading airline client and their operating companies as well as Change Management deliverables.

Contract - 6 months (with potential to extend)

Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB)

Hybrid - 3 days onsite

Pay - Flexible (inside IR35)

Accountabilities

• Shapes, scopes, structures, plans and delivers a business change programme or a number of projects, responsible for driving, co-ordinating and delivering the plans to meet the business objectives, internal control needs and budgets
• Determines, establishes and manages appropriate and effective governance structures for the portfolio or programme, workstreams and projects that is effective at all levels and aligns with key departmental/corporate governance structures.
• Ensures appropriate involvement and commitment from stakeholders through successful management of expectations and clear communication at all levels.
• Manages robust processes for risks, issues and dependencies and change control.
• Identifies resource requirements to ensure successful delivery of the programme or projects, working closely with Head of Programme Delivery
• Ensures projects within the programme or portfolio are managed and regularly reviewed. Provides project, programme or portfolio updates to agreed schedule, process and standards and ensures effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Challenges the focus of the programme or portfolio and its projects to meet targets and escalate any shortfalls to the Head of Programme Delivery.
• Builds and develops business cases for projects with the finance team. Ensures robust plans in place for realisation of benefits.
• Manages and leads cross-functional project teams without line management accountability
• Owns all portfolio and programme administration and documentation, including programme plans.
• Stakeholders across client's Transform including but not limited to Finance, Procurement, Sustainability, People, Legal, Technology, Cyber
• Business Stakeholders in client's Operating Companies
• Head of Programme Delivery
• 3rd party suppliers
• Business Advisors
• Professional Project Management accreditation desirable eg Prince2/APMP (Association of Project Management Professionals), Agile
• Ability to manage complex programmes and projects in a fast-paced global environment, finite resources and conflicting priorities
• Ability to translate high-level business objectives into programme structures, project deliverables and plans ensuring alignment to business plan goals.
• Challenges focus of projects/programme to meet targets and initiates extra activities wherever gaps are identified.
• Demonstrates excellent planning, organisation and forecasting skills and experience of managing multiple projects/programmes and prioritises to meet objectives.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across a diverse geographic region. Demonstrates ability to influence, challenge and engage effectively at all levels.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work collaboratively, align diverse views and gain consensus, providing clarity on what is to be achieved.
• Demonstrates pro-active and forward-looking approach to the projects/programme such as managing risks and engagement with stakeholders. Recognises when to escalate.
• Ability to resolve complex issues through an objective and analytical approach, creating relevant clarity in areas of ambiguity, developing options and negotiating resolutions.
• Brings together cross-functional groups, leads discussions and achieves outcomes through a structured approach, effective workshop facilitation and collaboration.
• Good business acumen and commercial awareness which enables consideration of the wider impact and dependencies of projects and pre-empts issues.
• Project Management experience demonstrated by a significant track record of managing business change/transformation programmes and projects from scoping to implementation, delivering benefits through project leadership in complex or challenging environments, impacting stakeholders across different business areas.
• Experience of project managing business transformation and change projects with significant IT deliverables.
• Experience of full project/programme accountability and experience of working at a senior level.
• Experience of working and delivering under pressure, on complex projects working within a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Experience of leading cross-functional virtual project teams.
• Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers.
• Experience with outsourcing/insourcing projects desirable
• Fluent written and spoken English. Spanish language desirable
• Requirement to work from the office 3 days a week or more depending on project and stakeholder requirements.
• Willingness to some duty travel if a project requires this, likely limited to Barcelona, Madrid and Dublin