Senior Project Manager

3 weeks ago

Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom CooperCompanies Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Project Manager to join our team at CooperVision. As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing projects to meet timeline, quality, and cost criteria.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects to meet timeline, quality, and cost criteria.
  • Responsible for the performance of the project team that includes GTIG engineers plus representatives from the UK, Hungary, and worldwide business units.
  • Champions best practice project management principles.
  • Interfaces to and liaises with customers and vendors for the project.
  • Manages the day-to-day project resources for his/her projects.
  • Ensures the project team is using current templates for all projects-related documents and these documents are version controlled and approved.
  • Responsible for project reporting (SMT dashboard, PRS, monthly report, stakeholder mtg, LCM mtg).
  • Arranges and chairs project team and stakeholder meetings as appropriate.

Managing Projects

  • Work with the Programme Manager and/or module leads to develop and approve detailed project requirements and a detailed project plan that meet the customer's requirements of budget, time, and deliverables.
  • Negotiate resource requirements with other departments to ensure project meets quality, cost, and delivery objectives.
  • Establish, monitor, and dissolve project team to optimise resource utilisation at every phase of the project.
  • Work with Technical Managers and colleagues to exploit new technologies.
  • Maintenance of visible project measures of performance (dashboard, monthly reports, project KPIs).
  • Hold regular project team briefings to ensure good communication.
  • Represents GTIG at LCM meetings.

Managing the People Resource

  • Motivate and manage project team to ensure optimal performance is achieved.
  • Manage cross-functional, cross-organisational teams to maximise performance.
  • Review project resource utilisation impact on progress/risks (planned versus actual).

Managing the Customer

  • Establish and maintain customer relationship throughout the project which provides a common customer focus and positive perception. Ensures customer satisfaction.
  • Monitor and review with the customer progress against plan to effectively manage specification changes which ensure that delivery objectives are met.
  • To appear technically credible to the customer and to ensure technical issues are resolved promptly and satisfactorily.
  • Work with the Senior Programme Manager to negotiate and agree specifications (including changes) with the customer and other Department Managers.

Quality

  • Delivery of projects to an agreed quality (regulatory, CVI, URS).
  • Work with GTIG module leaders to ensure conformance with primary process objectives functional requirements, utilisation, yield. Responsible for the technical quality of all work on the project.
  • Work with regulatory and QA team to record relevant documentation required for project success.

Managing Budgets/Cost

  • Monitor and safeguard commercial viability of the project.
  • Ensure that his/her projects are delivered to agreed time, cost, and quality parameters.
  • Delivery of project to an agreed budget, including tracking monthly spend, planned versus actual.
  • Working closely with GTIG module leaders to manage/approve engineering cost changes and maintain log of variances.
  • Work with the Programme Manager and module leaders to ensure the true cost benefits are known, presented, and managed throughout the project.

Time

  • Delivers the project to the agreed timeline.
  • Number of project milestones planned for achievement compared to number achieved on or ahead of schedule.
  • Development lead-time - elapsed time for project, planned versus actual (baseline project).

Managing Vendors

  • Working with the Programme Manager and Purchasing contribute to contract negotiations that meet specific project requirements and ensure adherence.
  • To manage effective vendor relationships to ensure timely supply at optimum quality and cost.
  • Support GTIG module leaders in the selection of vendors.

Risk Management

  • Execute the risk management strategy agreed with the Senior Programme Manager for each project according to GTIG Project Governance guidelines.
  • Define regular risk reviews with the project team to identify, analyse, and respond to project risks.
  • Maintain a risk register for each project and report the overall risk status appropriately.
  • Maintain with the project team a lesson captured register and hold regular review to address them.

Travel Requirements

Travel will be based on project requirements and will typically include up to 10% travel to CooperVision sites and vendors within the UK, Europe, and internationally. There may be projects where more frequent travel (up to 30%) is required for a defined period.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • A minimum of 5 years' experience managing technical/development projects.
  • A background of working in controls, mechanical, or automation environment.
  • Sound understanding of project management principles and concepts such as would be obtained from formal project management courses – attended 3rd party PM training.
  • Previous experience in managing project and capital expenditure budgets (essential).
  • Seen as a champion of project-management tools and techniques.
  • Sound understanding of medical devices/design control/regulated industry – Trained in validation and design control.
  • A minimum of 5 years' experience managing technical/development projects in a regulated environment.

Experience and Education

  • Engineering/scientific-based qualification to degree level or equivalent with suitable industrial experience.
  • Hold a Project Management Degree or a recognised project management qualification (PMI, APM, Prince2) – essential.

What we offer:

You'll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including bonus, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, healthcare cover, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme, and much more.

We are committed to our employees' personal and professional development and offer extensive training to support your career growth and help every individual to reach their full potential. To help us achieve our goals, we'll give you everything you need to help you achieve yours.

We also provide access to LinkedIn Learning to help you develop in your career and grow with CooperVision.

What you can expect:

As a CooperVision employee, you'll be welcomed into a diverse and progressive global business. We appreciate how important fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is and how different perspectives add value and contribute to our success. With our CooperPride, African Descent, Woman's Impact Network, and Mind Body and Wellbeing Employee Resource Groups, we offer opportunities for employees to learn and grow within an inclusive and safe space.

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