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Senior Project Manager
Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63045
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
The Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role will be split and the Senior Project Manager will spend their time managing internal transformation projects and time in a functional role in the Project Manager discipline.
You’ll work on complex internal transformation projects creating and implementing strategies and bringing teams together across multiple functions.
Day-to-day, you’ll be providing management of a team of project staff, responsible for the timely and cost-effective delivery to our internal stakeholders.
In this role, you will also be a functional focus area manager, successfully managing operations within your area including resource capture and recruitment management, implementation of change / best practice and management of performance and training.
* Oversee operational and strategic management of business transformation projects, ensuring alignment with cost, time, quality, priorities, and dependencies.
* Identify, plan, and manage multiple project interdependencies to ensure successful delivery of key activities.
* Manage stakeholders effectively and build strong relationships across a matrix organisation.
* Mitigate and manage risks to minimise the business’ exposure throughout the project.
* Apply effective change management, balancing evolving requirements with budget and timeline constraints.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with working days onsite and working days from home. However, you may be required to travel to other UK sites when the project demands.
Essential Experience of the Senior Project Manager
* Considerable experience in project delivery and implementation of internal change, within a relevant project environment (a financial background or inter-company consolidation experience would be advantageous).
* Great financial management to ensure a high level of profitability on projects.
* Experience in understanding and controlling complex project interdependencies.
* Experience managing projects with differing demands and deadlines.
* Commercial awareness with an understanding of contract and commercial management.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager
* Association for Project Management Project Management Qualification, Agile practitioner, Chartered project manager status or equivalent (advantageous).
* Experience of using both agile and waterfall methodologies is highly desirable, along with understanding of project controls.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance but will need to achieve Security Check (SC) security clearance once in post.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
* ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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