Roles and Responsibilities
- Leading and motivating the Project delivery team to achieve the desired outputs and results.
- Consolidating and documenting the fundamental components of Projects ensuring that appropriate and robust controls are in place whilst talking into account safety and the environment.
- Establishing and maintaining project governance arrangements, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities.
- Applying appropriate lifecycles, processes, methods, techniques and tools whilst tailoring them to the specific needs of specific Projects / Tasks.
- Ensuring that quality activities relating to Projects / Tasks are planned and performed correctly and are within tolerance defined by the Plan.
- Planning Projects / Tasks in sufficient detail to ensure integration of all activities, identification of dependencies, and understanding of critical paths and key milestones.
- Managing reviews at appropriate points throughout the delivery lifecycle which will inform governance decisions by providing evaluations of progress, performance, risk, contingency and continuing relevance.
- Identifying stakeholder expectations and managing them, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests, establishing effective engaging relationships with them.
- Actively identifying / managing threats and opportunities including instigating mitigation actions, identifying risk responses / contingency plans and managing them to a conclusion.
Experience Required
- Experience (typically around 10 years) of leading and delivering multi £m projects, in technical and regulated environments, and proven track record of managing and engaging effectively with internal and external stakeholders in such environments.
- Experience leading, motivating and managing multi-disciplinary teams, including internal and external resources, to drive integration, teamwork and problem solving while holding teams accountable for performance.
- Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of projects to quality, time and budget.
- Experienced and comfortable with change with the ability to work with an organisation that is undergoing significant transformation and can demonstrate a proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience of establishing strong positive relationships with the supply chain, including procurement and contract management of complex technical contracts.
- Visible leadership – able to lead through engaging, motivating, coaching and empowering others.
- Collaboration – able to establish and develop collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, bringing people together to benefit projects or programme.
- Working with ambiguity – able to build consensus and set direction in uncertain situations and apply knowledge and techniques to reduce ambiguity.
- Conflict resolution – able to recognise, anticipate and effectively deal with existing or potential conflicts or disconnects at individual, team or strategic levels.
- Communication – demonstrably strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation, and at all levels of seniority.
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