Senior Programme Manager - Central London (London Bridge)
The Company: A ground-breaking specialist Tier 1 Main Contractor based in Central London. They are a multi award winning company that are leading the way in MMC!
Uniquely, they offer clients a full turnkey service to design, finance, build, equip, operate and hire amazing zero carbon spaces. They celebrate individuality, modular isn’t about everything being the same.
They have an impressive turnover for a growing business of over £500M last year and they hired 90 new employees – taking their headcount to 218.
Excitingly, they have plans to set up a development side of the business (land acquisitions etc) next year in order to keep everything in-house!
The Role: As Senior Programme Manager, your role is effectively to manage and support the three Senior Project Managers in the defence team – this is a brand-new position within the company.
You will be responsible for making sure the wider defence project management team are following processes that have been put into place to deal with the scale of growth that the sector is currently experiencing as well as ensuring that the right controls and systems are set up, maintained and continuously improved.
You will work with project specific PM’s to ensure projects are properly resourced, to drive consistency across the defence sector and to hold them to account for project delivery all in line with the cultures and values.
Given the sectors dynamic workload you will be required to lean in and support various project teams using your knowledge & experience, ensuring their successful delivery. You will have great exposure to the PM sector lead whom you will be working with on daily basis.
You will be assisting them in the development of the sector, refining current processes and setting up new ones as we continue to grow.
You will provide strong and effective leadership in managing relationships and delivering outputs to realise commercially successful outcomes, on time and to high quality standards.
The role will predominantly be office based in their London HQ, with visits to the factory, site, consultant offices and client locations as required.
Job Location: Central London (London Bridge)
Head Count: 200+
Project Sectors: MOD, Education, Residential, Healthcare & Commercial
Purpose:
To assure project delivery (time, cost, quality, safety, customer satisfaction) across a portfolio of defence projects
To establish, maintain and drive compliance with an effective defence project gateway and control process and delivery systems
To drive continuous improvement across the defence sector
Accountabilities:
Compliance of portfolio of projects with defence projects gateway processes
Effectiveness and relevance of defence sector gateway processes and delivery systems
Resourcing to meet project needs
Requirements for the Senior Programme Manager:
Degree in Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline/ or equivalent work experience
Member of APM/RICS/CIOB or equivalent professional organisation, or actively working towards membership
Excellent Communication skills
Extremely personable and a fantastic team player
Technical Experience of being a project manager through RIBA stage 4-6
Minimum 2 years’ experience in delivery of design & build projects
Knowledge of NEC4 Contract law
Experience of or interest in development and maintenance of processes and systems
(Desired) Requirements for the Senior Programme Manager:
Technical knowledge & experience of RIBA stages 2-4 – preconstruction
Construction Contract Law Experience
Principal Contracting Experience Preferred
Experience and knowledge of more holistic construction areas, commercial, design, operations being key
The benefits included in this role are:
Highly competitive salary (negotiable DOE)
Generous bonuses (which can be given on the spot)
Pension Scheme (10% combined)
Private Medical Insurance (Bupa)
Medical CashPlan – scheme administered by Medicash at Level 3. There is an option to add families to the policy at the employee’s personal cost. (This is a taxable benefit)
Cycle to work scheme – all employees can buy a bike for up to £2,300 and this will be deducted from gross salary via Salary Sacrifice, 1 bike can be purchased per year
Professional Fees reimbursement – CIOB, RICS and any other relevant construction related (or job related) membership fees
Company sick pay scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme with Love Electric
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (once eligible)
25 days Holiday (pro-rata) – 3 are kept back for Christmas as the office is closed between Christmas and New Year
Travel (only applicable when this is mentioned in the contract) by way of car allowance or company vehicle or business mileage/expenses for business travel using personal vehicle
Comprehensive and Tailored Training – Full access to their internal and external training and development when relevant to position
Monthly Team Socials – The business gets together for social events such as cricket/boxing/rally car racing
Team Events – 2 business events happen per year, one in the Summer and another at Christmas
Volunteering Days – 1 day per year per employee are dedicated to Charity work
Apprenticeship/University Fees – on approval in advance
Life Assurance – 4 x salary
Get in touch today to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, Guy Dugdale – guy@prosper-consulting.org.uk