Senior Project Manager

3 weeks ago


Watford Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Skanska UK Plc Full time

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our IT team in Watford. This is a key role for us as we continue through a period of growth.

You’ll:

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, department heads, and external vendors.
  • Establish and enforce project management standards, processes, and methodologies.
  • Develop and implement risk management strategies.
  • Allocate resources effectively to meet project goals.
  • Monitor and report on programme/project performance, including key performance indicators (KPIs), milestones, and budget adherence.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Experience of managing Project Managers, and also business and technical projects
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Proficiency in project management software and tools
  • Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
  • Knowledge and expertise aligned to professional certification in project management (PRINCE2 practitioner, Agile Scrum Master, Project Management Professional (PMP) or other relevant certifications)

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using recruitment@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: recruitment@skanska.co.uk

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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