Junior Project Management Consultant Manchester, England
Job description
Introduction
Our client is a leading Project Management and Procurement Consultancy and they are passionate about the Defence sector!
They are looking for Project Managers to work across a number of projects and programmes with the MOD, including Infrastructure, technology, digital and real estate/construction.
They are happy to consider candidates who have just finished a graduate scheme (within the Defence industry).
You will have a local base location and be in the office / on customer sites 2 – 3 days per week, the rest of the work can be done remotely. Offices include: Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff, Sheffield, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Derby, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Darlington
Key responsibilities
- Proactively provide trusted advice to our clients around how to deliver solutions
- Full or part lifecycle delivery management
- Providing independent assurance of projects or programmes, applying robust thinking to show how well or otherwise they are performing from a delivery perspective
- Recovery of poorly performing implementations
- Provide expert project and programme delivery advice where needed into complimentary services, such as procurement management
- Ability to work alone or in high performance teams
- Build client relationships and reinforce credibility as a subject matter expert
- Demonstrate knowledge of industry standard methodologies
- Support or lead business generation activity (bid qualifications and proposals)
Skills & experience
- Experience leading or supporting projects within the Defence industry (ideally within a client facing role)
- 2 + years within a project role
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Set up agile culture and capabilities, Support and guide agile practices, Adopt agile practices
- APM, Prince2, AgilePM or Scrum qualification would be ideal
Additional benefits
- Pension - match contributions up to 5% of basic salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Permanent Health Insurance
- Life Assurance x4 basic salary)
- Personal Accident Cover
- 25 days holiday (+8 public holidays)
- Car allowance
Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
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