Senior Project Manager

**Senior Project Manager**

**Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire - 3-4 days onsite per week**

We are actively looking to secure a **Senior Project Manager** to join Experis as one of our expert consultants, delivering services to our clients.
Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpowergroup of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.
Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

**Job Purpose**

Our client is a large Defence organisation based in Salisbury. They have a wide variety of exciting projects and programmes, from innovative research, through to modifications or complex flight trials across all domains.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivery of a high value, complex portfolio involving upgrades and investments and leadership of the Portfolio Team (including business management of project professionals).

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Delivery of high value (£5m per annum) or complex projects.
- Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.
- Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales).
- Ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the performance management system.
- Resolving conflicts within the project.
- Maintenance of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery.
- Application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for foundation sales and delivery work.
- Reporting progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager.

**Key Capabilities & Knowledge**:

- Leadership: influencing and aligning others towards the vision for the project, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.
- Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs.
- Teamwork: creating an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.
- Human Resource Management; supporting functional teams (including HR) to develop and manage our people in line with legal requirements and policy.
- Foundation Sales; identifying, qualifying, developing and delivering solutions to customers using an existing commercial framework contract (such as Strategic Enterprise or Engineering Delivery Partner) and being able to articulate the benefits of the solutionto the customer.
- Negotiation & Conflict Management; identifying and addressing differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.
- Business Development; when required, work as a member of a capture team to generate delivery plans, risk registers and costings to support the creation of the proposal document.

**Essential Experience & Qualifications**:

- Experience of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering complex projects
- Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level B
- Experience delivering projects to up to 3 different customers.

**Desirable Experience & Qualifications**
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in appropriate discipline
- Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2)
- Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors