Project Manager overseeing commercial and residential land development projects from inception to completion. Focused on managing teams and ensuring project success in a collaborative environment.
About the role
- Project Manager responsible for delivering strategic rail projects for digital ticketing and stakeholder engagement. Leading cross-functional teams and ensuring projects align with strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Leading projects – representing them with stakeholders, resolving blockers, whilst coordinating a strong and capable cross-functional team,
- With the support of your team, establish, maintain and manage project plans, tracking and monitoring progress and issues and taking necessary actions and decisions.
- Develop and maintain productive and professional external and internal senior stakeholder relationships to ensure that programmes are delivering to industry needs and realising the required benefits.
- Manage risks, issues and change. Initiate corrective action against identified risks and issues to achieve programme objectives. Manage change considering business benefit and impact on costs and time
- Set up the appropriate governance for the Programme in line with RDG’s existing governance structure. Responsible for providing reports and papers for that governance and stakeholders
- Line & matrix manage and support project delivery teams in their day-to-day delivery to achieve the performance needed to successfully deliver the objectives of programmes
- Adhere to RDG Project Delivery Framework standards and procedures and identify and implement improvements to these standards and procedures.
Requirements
- We are looking for someone with experience of working as a project manager, demonstrating a strong aptitude for the role and expert programme and project management knowledge.
- Broad vocational experience ideally within Transport, Travel, Retail, Utilities, Professional Services
- Full membership of the Association for Project Management is desirable.
- Experience working with either or both Agile and Prince 2 methodologies, qualified in programme management (e.g. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
- Delivery of projects within the agreed constraints of time, budget and high-level scope. This includes demonstrated experience in prioritising activities (including where necessary supplier priorities) and ensuring appropriate actions are regarding managing issues and risks and approving changes.
- Experience in projects with a proven track record of delivering results in a complex environment, with multiple external stakeholders.
- Leading a project with significant budget (£m) responsibility
- Ability to make decisions relating to project priorities, change management (e.g. scope, time, contractual), financial and commercial changes.
- Experienced in developing project plans for and assuring delivery of priority projects.
- Identifying and documenting risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and decisions and the associated management, with the appropriate action owner, to remediate.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, leading and getting the best out of project teams and individuals.
- Excellent communication skills, liaising with all senior executives, stakeholders, Industry boards and project team members, through the provision of high-quality multi-media reports, presentations, demonstrations and focus groups to influence decisions, make recommendations and provide support on business management.
- The ability to think strategically in your approach to delivery of the project aims.
Benefits
- 75% off rail travel for personal and family use, plus international rail discounts.
- 30 Days annual leave (plus buy/sell options and additional leave for key life events)
- Season ticket loan for commuting costs.
- Enhanced family leave – 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and shared parental leave.
- Pension scheme – up to 11.58% employer contribution.
- Private medical insurance (Vitality PPP) including mental health and specialist care.
- Discounted gym membership and access to wellbeing programmes.
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