Programme Manager
Required Qualification
- DV Clearance required upon submission
Experience
- Typically, 10 to 12 years' experience of managing several complex projects
- Typically, overall management of projects across the whole lifecycle, especially start up
- Team leadership experience, ability to build and motivate teams
Job Purpose & Key Responsibilities
- Planning for an obtaining the appropriate levels and types of resource needed
- Agreeing terms of reference with the project team members and the relevant directorship
- Provide mentoring and coaching of the project team and support their professional development
- Helping to define and agree the scope, critical success factors, deliverables and benefits of the project
- Agree the technical and quality strategy with the project board preparing detailed project plans, monitoring progress and taking corrective action where necessary
- Establishing common milestones which link to the wider project/programme milestones
- Hold status/checkpoint meetings with the work package managers and reporting on progress to the project board
- Define and manage stakeholder expectations at a senior and strategic level
- Identify the issues and risks and recommend solutions, mitigations and contingencies
- Ensure that project produce the required deliverables to define standards of quality, timescales, budgets and other constraints
- Ensure the effective information sharing between colleagues and project teams
- Work within the standard disciplines and processes established for the project/programme
- Provide progress and status reports
Skills
- Excellent communication and good verbal influencing skills
- Impressive stakeholders and customer management skills
- Drive all aspects of the project to a successful conclusion and resolve conflict within the project
- Ability to define and actively manage the critical project success factors
Behavioural
- Leads teams positively in their communication
- Able to gain respect of managers, peers and subordinates
- Has first-class leadership skills
Guidant is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
