Programme Manager

Location

Norfolk | United Kingdom

Job description

An excellent position is now available at an extremely impressive Norwich Engineering firm, for a Project/Programme Manager .

This mature, well respected and unique niche market business that supplies its product to a global audience, is on a continuous and steady growth path, and offers a very stable career option for those that seek to expand on their own knowledge and development.

In this role as a Project/Programme Manager, you will provide a single point of contact for customers and other key stakeholders, both in the UK and around the World, whilst being accountable for establishing and maintaining a project plan, and identifying and managing the critical path for the successful delivery of operational programmes on time, in budget and meeting all quality standards.

You will be working as part of the wider company project/programmes function, leading teams of Service Engineers and other technicians in a matrix structure, working within a strict time, budgetary and quality framework.

The role will include;

• Project resource planning and allocation.
• Identifying and mitigating project risk, including any specific Health & Safety/COSHH requirements.
• Liaising with the project team and functional heads to resolve any facilities, equipment and resource conflicts.
• Managing, controlling and presenting project costs, margins and metrics.
• Maintaining contact with suppliers to ensure project requirements are met.
• Managing customer relationships and driving additional business opportunities.
• Tracking project performance
• Identifying and championing process improvements.
• Any other such duties that may be reasonably compatible with the nature and scope of the role.
• Lead Project Manager.
• Project / Programme Team Members.
• Field Service Engineers & Technical Staff.
• Security & Admin Staff.
• Customer Point of Contact.
• Customer operational teams.

You need;

• Strong commercial and contractual acumen.
• Experience and confidence in managing risk and opportunity.
• A positive can do approach with an ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
• High level of computer literacy to include MS Project, Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
• Full Driving Licence to drive in the UK and abroad.
• Valid passport with no travel restrictions.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Team focused.

Occasional travel to customer sites both in the UK and rest of the World with some unsocial working hours as may be required from time to time.

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