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Project Director - North, Greater Manchester
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Location:
Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
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91
Posted:
03.03.2025
Job Description:
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
* Manage the project and programme management service across complex university, wider education and cultural commissions.
* Direct and manage the delivery of complex projects, managing relationships with senior stakeholders, and providing leadership to project teams.
* Ensure all work and outputs are executed to meet business plans and goals.
* Lead an operational team, setting objectives, managing performance, and ensuring that staff have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives.
* Translate business objectives into operational financial targets, producing clearly defined business cases, plans, and schedules for projects, and take responsibility for meeting the profit and budgetary targets of the project.
* Spearhead the implementation of complex projects, managing multi-disciplinary teams and working to mid-long term timescales to ensure delivery standards meet expectations.
* Monitor and review the performance and behavior of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure organizational policies and codes of conduct are followed.
* Ensure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
* Examine and review complex information from a range of data sources, including colleagues' recommendations, in order to identify how different options may impact project delivery and advise clients and internal stakeholders on potential implications.
* Develop project management processes and policies and coordinate the implementation of system improvements for own projects, ensuring developments are in line with strategic business objectives.
* Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and collaboration within projects to ensure commercial viability and customer satisfaction.
* Act as a technical expert within own projects, providing strategic advice to other senior managers to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
* Manage and build relationships with client project sponsors/stakeholders to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and are aligned to meet objectives.
* Accountable for delivery of project within agreed budget - typically £10m+.
* Responsible for setting delivery approach for multiple projects and planning in consultation with key stakeholders.
* Establish project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery.
* Responsible for performance management of multiple projects, engaging with the senior management team and Associate/Senior project managers.
Qualifications & Experience:
* Relevant experience including experience of managing complex projects.
* Proven ability to manage, motivate, and lead teams.
* Leading project management expert within area of specialism.
* Experience of managing business relationships at executive level.
* Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
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