LOCATION:

Coventry

SALARY:

Competitive

PERMANENT/FIXED:

Permanent

Application Reference Number: 0040

Project Manager

About the role:

This Project Manager is a hands-on project driving role. The primary purpose is to ensure that projects are delivered on-time and on-budget to the high standards expected by UKBIC and its clients. Typically running multiple parallel projects. The role is primarily focused on project delivery, but an important part of this requires pre-contract project and resource planning.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Ability to engage, liaise and steer cross functional relationships and work at a senior & executive level.
• Excellent problem-solving management from multiple resource pools.
• Exceptional communication and presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal ability to ensure project delivery.
• Strong organisational skills to ensure efficient management of projects.
• Proficient use of project management tools and Microsoft set of software tools.
• Experience of managing multiple skilled project teams internally and externally.
• Experience of delivering complex multi-year research and development projects.
• Experience of active risk management mitigation development and delivery.
• Ability to make decisions to control projects ‘Time/Budget/Quality’ constraints and deliver on-time.

Pre-contract Phase:

• Support Business Development Manager (BDM) with high level WBS and project planning, managing project technical alignment with wider cross functional team (CFT) to contract and milestones/content agreement.

Delivery Phase:

• Create detailed delivery plan with support & inputs from cross functional team along with heads of departments.
• Generate plans and regular reporting of project performance throughout project lifecycle
• Create and implement project resource profile/plan, confirming core project team members capacity to deliver on time.
• Communicate and secure executive sign off of core project team resource·        Manage delegation of tasks to core project team through Work packages to ensure target delivery dates & milestones are bought into and owned by task leads.
• Create project schedules and identify deliverables with dates that are compliant with project budget and scope proposal.
• Liaise with cross functional team to ensure effective information flow on a day-to-day basis using Agile and Scrum principles to ensure adherence to planned work in maintained.
• Manage, Report, and identify project risks and escalations, working with CFT & BDM on mitigation plan. Manage non-conformities through quality team to ensure efficient resolution and adherence to recovery plan by all.
• Manage suppliers and subcontractors to the project ensuring all external deliverables are achieved to requirements.
• Manage and lead the daily/weekly meeting drumbeat of project steering, both internally and externally, ensuring agendas are communicated and meetings are steered accordingly.
• Capture and document project decisions and change requests, supporting BDM with contractual change requests, and create new plans to show implications to costs and delivery times with creation of contract change notices.
• Ensure processes are adhered to and projects meet compliance and audit requirements, enforcing robust governance across the project.
• Act as primary point of contact for customer with support of CFT and BDM, ensuring clear information flow and project status is communicated daily.
• Regularly monitor project budget and forecast planning to facilitate project planning and decision-making.
• Generate weekly project reports and support monthly reviews and presentations to senior levels on status, future demands to End of Projects (EOP) and customer feedback.
• Support the Commercial dept activities to ensure customers are always at the centre of our activities.

Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• Degree qualified (preferably in Project Management, Engineering or Technical Field), candidates will ideally have an Engineering and Battery background and have evidence of successfully delivering complex technical projects.
• Engineering and Project Management qualifications are expected. Ideally hold APM qualification.

Personal attributes:

• An individual with a customer-first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
• Resilient and enthusiastic, an individual able to deliver results under pressure.
• A self-starter with the ability to prioritise their workload & operate with autonomy.
• An individual who is results-driven with the ability to deliver operational plans in a highly demanding environment.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to communicate complex ideas with multiple stakeholders.
• An effective team player who supports team members as well as the wider Commercial Function.

Application Reference Number: 0040