Project Manager
Job Description
Job title: Project Manager
Company: Sopra Steria
Job description: Are you a Project Manager looking for a new challenge?
The senior project manager fulfils a critical management role, having a high level of direct accountability and responsibility. They will contribute directly and positively to the business performance of the ADS in delivery of the programme by:
- Taking personal accountability for the performance of a portfolio of projects, comprised of low, moderate and high complexity projects
- Understanding and translating business strategy and business objectives into actions and outcomes that optimise profitability and supports growth
What you’ll be doing:
- Oversee overall project costs and manage all project elements
- Deliver technical equipment/systems to client sites, ensuring SSL enablers, administration, and maintenance are in place. Hand over to the operational delivery structure
- Coordinate with multi-stakeholder counterparts to align SSL plan with the client’s master plan. Inform, involve, and gain support from all stakeholders
- Create, implement, or follow processes for service delivery adhering to approved quality levels (H&S, ECR, Security, ISO…)
- Manage projects to client and SSL requirements, meeting timescales, budget, acceptance criteria, quality criteria, tolerance, contractual commitments, and agreed service levels post-cutover
- Plan and coordinate SSL delivery teams, monitoring and controlling progress against the agreed baseline plan for pre-event, event, and post-event activities
What you’ll bring:
- Industry qualifications (Prince 2, Agile) and real-life experience of project management
- Experience of working with MoD and their suppliers (people, processes and estate)
- Experience of working with technical professionals and delivering complex technical systems
- Skilled in delivering against the ECR process
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Security Clearance Level: DV Clearance required
Internal Recruiter: Josh
Salary: £45,000 to £60,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK’s largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
Expected salary: £45000 – 60000 per year
Location: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
