Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager
Healthcare
Engineering/construction

Inside IR35 (Umbrella/PAYE)

1 Year initial contract 

On site East Londoin - Newham 

Direct Reports - Assistant Project Manager & Project Manager (4-5 reports and 4-5 resources / in direct reports depending on the scale of the project(s)
Working Relationships & Contacts

- Client Stakeholders - agree project objectives, communicate project status and facilitate resolution of project issues and risks
- Associate Senior Project Managers - providing support and engaging to ensure appropriate information is provided and advising on project delivery issues
- Operational Teams - collecting information and co-ordinating activities required to achieve compliance with project processes
- Project Managers - Leading and advising on best practice and approach to ensuring compliance with defined processes and systems

Job Purpose:

- Roles at this level will operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives
- They are responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.

Key Accountabilities:

- Oversee an agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work
- Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
- Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
- Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
- Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes
- Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making
- Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems
- Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations
- Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
- Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

Dimensions of the job:
- Accountable for delivery of a project or low number of projects with reasonable complexity up to £30m in value - to budget, quality and time metrics
- Responsible for setting project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders
- Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery
- Responsible for performance management of project team / resource

Knowledge & Experience:

- Relevant experience including management of small to medium sized project (AKA ‘core’ sized projects)
- Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
- ‘Expert’ level expertise in project management
- Knowledge of own area managed and an understanding of wider programme and business
- Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level

Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Relevant professional qualification or chartered status