Sustainability Project Manager
Posted Today by Hays
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Waterside, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Sustainability Project Manager will oversee the management of assigned sustainability projects, ensuring they meet defined business objectives within budget, scope, and quality. The role requires effective planning, scheduling, and financial management, as well as strong stakeholder engagement. The position is remote with occasional office visits in London and is offered as a 6-month contract with potential for extension. Candidates should possess relevant project management qualifications and experience in IT programs is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery of all project management activities within assigned sustainability projects.
- Ensuring projects meet specifications, timescales, and budget while adhering to internal controls.
- Planning, scheduling, financial management, estimating, and forecasting for projects.
- Risk, Assumption, Issue, and Dependency Management.
- Creation and maintenance of financial criteria and management structures for projects.
- Building and sustaining relationships with business owners and senior managers.
- Defining resource demand forecasts and managing resource levels.
Key Skills:
- Effective leadership and communication skills at all levels.
- Demonstrable experience in successful project delivery across functions.
- Experience in IT programs is highly desirable.
- Ability to lead and motivate teams in a matrix management environment.
- Proven ability to work under pressure and manage risks.
- Budget, schedule, and scope management skills.
- Contract management and negotiation experience.
- Professional Programme Management accreditation required.
- Agile methodology knowledge desirable; aviation experience essential.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Waterside
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Sustainability Project Manager
About the role
We are seeking a highly experienced and organised Sustainability Project Manager to join our client, who can do management of an assigned project or projects within Sustainability, to successfully deliver the defined business objectives, using a consistent approach and governance structure, on time, to budget and with the agreed scope and quality.
Tell me more, tell me more…
Our client is currently looking for a new recruit in joining their team, please read on! You can also ask our friendly recruitment team any questions you may have about the role, between 8:30am-5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Shifts: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)
Key responsibilities
The Project Manager role is key in delivering key Sustainability projects, covering areas such as programme and project management, financial management, resource management, plan/schedule management, scope management, waterfall and agile ways of working. The role holder will be responsible for:
- The delivery of all project management activities within projects assigned from the Sustainability programme, ensuring highly effective deployment into steady state, including deployment of continuous improvement capability.
- Ensuring delivery to agreed specifications, timescales and budget whilst adhering to internal control needs.
- Planning, scheduling, financial management, estimating and forecasting all elements of the projects assigned
- Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependency Management
- Creation and maintenance of robust financial criteria and management structures for each project assigned
- Building and sustaining strong working relationships with accountable business owners and senior managers on their projects.
- Acts as a trusted advisor and business partner, in the successful delivery of projects
- Define resource demand forecast and managing resource levels ensuring both budget targets and programme/portfolio objectives are achieved
Core Traits
- Engaging approachable leader
- Clear and articulate communicator
- Good individual and team leadership and management
- Highly organised and structured
- Delivers in defined structured manner
- Business need focused in a customer setting
- Meets deadlines, Cost and Scope parameters
- Makes decisions within defined parameters affecting the outcomes of their project based on the facts available
- Looks to continuously improve in everything they do
- Good stakeholder and relationship management
Skills:
- Good effective leadership, communication, influencing at all levels (written and verbal) and successfully manage expectations
- Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of projects across functions and directorates.
- Experience of working on IT programmes highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively lead and motivate individuals & teams (direct/indirect), working collaboratively to deliver results in a matrix management environment
- Good individual and team management
- Proven ability to work under pressure
- Risk management with risks identified options agreed & plan in place.
- - Contingency planning – in depth knowledge of both contingency planning and mitigation.
- Ability to challenge the status quo where necessary through well-structured and fact driven arguments
- Budget, schedule and scope management
- External and internal supplier management including contract management and negotiation.
Qualifications / experience
- Professional Programme Management accreditation (e.g. MOP, MSP, PMP, P3O or Prince 2) required
- Degree qualification is advantageous but not essential.
- Agile methodology (SAFe) desirable, Aviation experience essential
What’s in it for you? – Our client loves to reward their people for doing a great job. This is a 6 months contract.(possibility of extension)
A day rate, in-scope of IR35, either via a Hays approved umbrella company or via Hays PAYE
This role provides a remote working access from the comforts of your own home and only going to our state-of-the-art office in Waterside, London 2 days per week.
Next Steps
Once you’ve applied, one of our friendly recruitment consultants will give you a call and talk you through the screening process. If your application is successful, you’ll be involved in a live virtual interview with one of our client’s hiring managers to get to know you better. We look forward to speaking to you!