Head of Projects

2 months ago


Darlington, United Kingdom DG Partnership Ltd Full time

**Head of Projects - £60,000 - £70,000 + Benefits - Darlington**

**The Role
Do you have experience leading large teams including Project Managers? Are you a self-starter who is willing to take on challenges? Do you thrive in an environment where innovation and inquisitiveness is rewarded? If so, we are looking for you.

**Key Responsibilities:
The key responsibilities of a Head of Projects include, but are not limited to:

- Providing organisational leadership to evolve and promote the project excellence practice
- Embedding project delivery best practices across the organisation through a learning and development framework.
- Developing and maintaining project management methods, tools sets and processes to drive client engagement, ensuring quality and compliance across programme deliverables.
- Developing junior project managers through training, coaching and mentoring
- Accountable for delivering of software product development (in the innovation centre).
- Building and managing stakeholder relationships identifying the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
- Ensuring that realistic project plans are maintained within area of responsibility and partnering with project/programme lead to ensure regular and accurate updates of overall project deliverables, status, risks and issues are maintained.
- Contributing to business development, driving new sales opportunities and optimising organic growth from a portfolio of clients.
- Ensuring effective stakeholder engagement at executive levels to secure client retention and consultancy engagements.
- Writing white papers for publication on company's website establishing recognition as a trusted advisor in areas of expertise.

**The Company
Helixr was founded as a business consultancy firm derived from a passion for engaging with clients within the Life Sciences sector and being a part of shaping their future by delivering exceptional results.

Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, from which we have established a new and distinctive approach to business needs and challenges within this fast-paced and ever-evolving sector. Our core value of integrity runs through all ofour assignments to deliver tangible results to our clients.

**The Person
The key skills and qualities of a Head of Projects are:

- 10+ years’ experience leading large teams including project managers
- Experience in software product development (Desired)
- Demonstrated expertise in programme and project management with awareness of evolving best practices
- Experience of designing and adapting project management methodologies and frameworks
- Experience in developing business cases, strategies and roadmaps
- Project Management Certifications preferred (PMP, Prince 2, Agile)
- Strong interpersonal skills, with proven ability to listen, communicate and collaborate effectively
- Proficient in relevant tools for Programme and Project Management (eg: MS Projects, Jira)
- Flexible and adaptable to changing roles and priorities
- Flexible with travel and working across time zones
- Eligible to work in the UK.


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