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Senior Project Manager

Cumming Group
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Knowledge & Skills

  • Required:
  • Deliver results in a client facing role including:
  • Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
  • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
  • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
  • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
  • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
  • Starting to lead a team.
  • Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role.
  • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
  • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines
  • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain
  • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
  • Preferred Education and Experience:
  • Ideally degree qualified (industry or non-industry)
  • MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Supporting Project Management Qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner / Certified Project Manager / MSP / Risk Management.
  • Some formal Leadership training.
  • 5+ years’ experience (at least 3 years post qualification).
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
  • Strong experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC
  • Strong technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management.
  • Good experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle.
  • Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications.
  • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
  • Developing interpersonal and team building skills. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff.
  • Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management.
  • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
  • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
  • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
  • Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
  • Note for Recruitment Agencies:
  • We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.

Qualifications

  • Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
  • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
  • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
  • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
  • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
  • Starting to lead a team.
  • Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role.
  • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
  • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines
  • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain
  • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
  • Ideally degree qualified (industry or non-industry)
  • MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Supporting Project Management Qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner / Certified Project Manager / MSP / Risk Management.
  • Some formal Leadership training.
  • 5+ years’ experience (at least 3 years post qualification).
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
  • Strong experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC
  • Strong technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management.
  • Good experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle.
  • Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications.
  • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
  • Developing interpersonal and team building skills. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff.
  • Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management.
  • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
  • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
  • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
  • Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
  • We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.

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