Senior Project Manager
Leonardo
- Edinburgh
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ownership of the Functional Integration budget and schedule through monitoring of expenditures and costs throughout the financial year through representation of work packages within Primavera P6 and SAP Enterprise Management tools
- Generation of accurate project performance and forecasting metrics into the Lead Project Manager and Programme Manager for subsequent presentation into RATS Senior Management.
- Management reporting of IPT and related sub-contract activities, including representation at Project Performance Reviews with senior management on an as-required basis. Organising and coordinating all internal reviews, you will manage the resultant actions to closure.
- Promoting a best practice of knowledge sharing and establishing clear success criteria for each member of the IPT, you will coordinate activities by great communication and planning skills.
- Definition and implementation of corrective actions required to tackle any deviations from the planned activities.
- Resilient and focussed, you will possess strong project financial awareness with single point responsibility for financial out-turn within your area of responsibility.
- Management and evaluation of Project Risk and Opportunity through the project lifecycle.
- With a collaborative approach, you will maintain close and trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders fostering high levels of teamwork and collaboration.
- Provision of support and/or leadership of Bids & Proposal generation typically within short timescales.
- Identification and management of internal and external dependencies to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Strong support to Procurement in the management of the Supply Chain with a focus on Security related aspects.
- Project Management experience in all phases of the project execution life cycle, including the Business Winning Phases across several projects.
- Experience in the defence sector on programmes ranging from medium to large complexity will be ideal.
- Experience within both Commercial and Procurement environments associated with major sub-contracts would be advantageous given specifics of this role.
- An appreciation of hardware, systems & software engineering and exposure of a systems integration environment would be beneficial.
- An understanding of both Scaled Agile and Waterfall methodologies along with tools & techniques to assure alignment across multiple work streams.
- Exposure to projects comprising complex sub-contracts and commercial frameworks.
- Use of Collaboration tools and techniques to ensure up to date project information is available as and when requested.
- This is primarily an office based role using display screen equipment but also requires occasional presence in Laboratory & Manufacturing environments.
- Periodic travel within the UK and abroad is anticipated with overnight stays as required.