Project Management Consultant, C2

1 month ago


Halifax, United Kingdom PL Projects Full time

**About the organisation**:
PLP is a growing Project Management Office, Project Management, Training and Risk Management company providing consulting services. We provide responsive, quality services to support the delivery of complex and challenging client projects.

Our team of professionals provide services over the full lifespan of projects. We understand the requirements and risks of projects and the need for robust and professional cost and schedule control from the outset; early engagement allows our proactive approach to maximise control and minimise risks.

As a growing organisation, we are expanding and looking for adding additional Consultants to join the team to work within our consultancy, providing PMO and PM expertise to our clients.

PLP collaborates with several industry leaders in Rail, Technology, Retail, Infrastructure, Healthcare and Public sector, throughout the UK.

Depending on the demands, our consultants may need to visit our client locations. To ensure that PMO deliverables are effectively carried out, our consultants closely collaborate with the staff of our clients on every project to which they are assigned to ensure they deliver an effective and tailored services aligned to their requirements.

It is undeniable that PL Projects is an excellent company with a great working environment. What makes us unique? It’s the people and the people make the culture. If you’re looking for a career that you would value, we believe you are at the right place.

**Role**

From project initiation to project delivery to project closure, the project manager plays an essential role to the project's success. Project management as a function has a crucial role to play with multiple dimensions.

The PM Consultant will be responsible for delivering projects on our client sites, to the agreed time, cost and quality objectives. The PM Consultant will be assigned to an account and support one or more clients and, depending on the clients’ project, will be working in a variety of industries and departments. Consequently, the PM Consultant must be able to tailor the methodologies used to suit the project with the appropriate levels of detail (e.g., Waterfall, Agile or hybrid).

Our consultants need to be comfortable working in a fast-pace, ever changing environments, to quickly gather information and manage stakeholder expectations for delivery timescales and outcomes. Our consultants must adapt to joining a project at any point in the lifecycle, to assess the current position, what activities must be done next as priority and what activities are required to complete the project. Teamwork and effective collaboration are required to work with other PLP consultants on the client site, to ensure a comprehensive and cohesive service is delivered by PLP.

**Responsibilities**
- Able to understand and define scope and objectives of the project
- Identify and support procurement of resources to suit the project team requirements
- Write and execute key project documentation, such as a business case or a project initiation document
- Establish and deliver a project plan to time, cost and quality thresholds
- Manage the project in conjunction with the client’s agreed lifecycle and methodologies, adapting or improving where appropriate
- Manage the project through stage gates and approval processes
- Provide frequent and transparent project updates via reporting, and communicate this clearly to all stakeholders
- Identify and manage the resolution of any prioritisation issues
- Monitor progress and take all necessary actions and escalations where appropriate
- Manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies on projects
- Liaise with the project controls functions to ensure that governance is adhered to
- Manage the project budget and ensure that appropriate levels of approval are in place
- Informal coaching of other PLP colleagues on project management as part of our PM capability
- 5+ years in a Project Management role, exemplifying similar responsibilities as described above
- Experience in delivering successful projects, with exposure to all areas of the lifecycle from conception to completion and handover
- Experience demonstrating problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience with using project planning software e.g., Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6
- Experience with using a variety of Microsoft 365 products, as well as tools to support agile methodologies, such as Atlassian suite of tools e.g., JIRA, Trello, Confluence
- Experience working in a client facing environment where strong stakeholder engagement and excellent communication skills are required

**Core Competencies**

Professional competencies (Association for Project Management)
- Setting up Governance

Business case, life cycle, governance arrangement and portfolio shaping
- Planning and management

Requirements, Resource, Schedule, Budget, Risk and Control
- People and behaviours

Stakeholder Management, Team Management and Le



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