Project Manager

• Location: Role can work out of Romsey, Gloucester or Woking min 2 days per week onsite
• Clearance: SC clearance is essential
• Day Rate: -650 - -695 a day
• IR35: Inside

Skills:

+Extensive experience in managing hardware / software bids up to -5m

+SC clearance

+MOD

+Sole British national - due to nature of the project

We''re looking for an experienced Project Manager to deliver complex hardware/software programmes within a defence environment, including work with the UK Ministry of Defence.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Project Definition and Scope Defining the project''s purpose, goals, objectives, and specific deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure a clear understanding of what needs to be accomplished.
• Planning and Scheduling Creating a comprehensive project plan, including a detailed timeline, milestones, and dependencies, and developing a realistic schedule to ensure the project stays on track.
• Resource Management Identifying, recruiting, and allocating necessary resources (people, equipment, materials, finances) to specific tasks and ensuring they are used efficiently throughout the project.
• Budget Management Estimating project costs, developing a detailed budget, monitoring expenses regularly, and taking corrective action to ensure the project remains within financial constraints.
• Team Leadership Assembling, organizing, motivating, and leading the project team, providing guidance, resolving conflicts, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Risk Management Proactively identifying potential risks and issues, assessing their potential impact, developing mitigation strategies, and adapting the plan as needed when unexpected obstacles arise.
• Monitoring and Control Tracking project progress against the established plan, measuring performance using key indicators, and implementing corrective measures to address variances in scope, time, or cost.
• Communication and Stakeholder Management Serving as the central hub for all communication, providing regular updates to clients and stakeholders, managing their expectations, and ensuring their satisfaction with the project''s outcomes.
• Documentation and Reporting Maintaining thorough documentation of all project activities, decisions, changes, and progress, and preparing status reports for stakeholders and future reference.
• Quality Assurance Ensuring that all work is completed to the required standards and that the final deliverables meet the quality criteria set during the planning phase.
• Project Closure Formalizing the completion of the project, obtaining final approval from the client, archiving project records, and documenting lessons learned for future projects

Knowledge & Experience Required:

• Excellent Stakeholder Management and demonstrable experience of building excellent relationships both internally and with key client stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in managing hardware / software bids and projects that range from conceptual research through to sub-system development, delivery, and support of programmes up to -5m.
• Experience in rapid prototyping and accelerating development projects for UORs
• Able to work through complicated situations whilst maintaining communications with multiple stakeholders.
• Solid financial and commercial awareness and experience of negotiation.
• Must be flexible and willing to contribute where needed in the business cycle to further the team''s success.
• Pre-sale / bid delivery experience and a thorough understanding of the business lifecycle.
• Proved track record of successfully delivering bids and projects.
• Able to operate in a deadline focussed environment
• Experience of working with the UK Ministry of Defence, preferably taking a leading role delivering framework / product projects
• Experience in products, product development and research and consultancy
• Able to lead effectively in a multi-functional team
• Risk and Opportunity management experience
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task across multiple bids/platforms
• Commercial awareness / frameworks
• Experience of developing and managing Subcontractor Relationship Management and collaborative working
• Experience of working with complex international suppliers/ programmes.
• APM PMQ/ PMI / Prince 2/ Agile/ PMP Qualifications.
• Bidding training/qualifications welcomed

If you''d like to discuss this Project Manager role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.