Reporting Matrix / Organisation Chart: Line Manager - Manager/Team Lead
Working relationships &contacts
- Client Stakeholders - agree project objectives, communicate project status and facilitate resolution of project issues and risks
- Directors - providing support and engaging to ensure appropriate information is provided and advising on project delivery issues
- Operational Teams - collecting information and co-ordinating activities required to achieve compliance with project processes
- Project Managers - Leading and advising on best practice and approach to ensuring compliance with defined processes and systems
- Consultants - Coordinating, overseeing appointments and liaising with design and technical consultants.
Job purpose
- Roles at this level will operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives
- They are responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.
Key accountabilities
- Oversee an agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work
- Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
- Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
- Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
- Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes
- Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making
- Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems
- Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations
- Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
- Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations
Dimensions of the job
- Accountable for delivery of a project or low number of projects with reasonable complexity up to £300m in value - to budget, quality and time metrics
- Responsible for setting project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders
- Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery
- Responsible for performance management of project team / resource
- Can run / lead day to day on larger /more complex projects inc; chairing meetings, client liaison and project team management
- Appetite and ability to challenge project procedures for the benefit of the project
- Ability to apply working knowledge in application of contract forms
- Actively controls project change
- Administers the PM service in line with appointment obligations
- Reports require minimal technical & grammatical corrections
- Clear and concise communicator orally and in written reports
- Using more junior resource for support
- Provides input / support on fee proposals
- High quality service delivery that supports the securing of repeat business
- Is a direct point of contact for clients
Knowledge &experience
- Relevant experience including management with reasonable complexity up to £300m in value - to budget, quality and time metrics
- Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
- 'Expert' level expertise in project management
- Knowledge of own area managed and an understanding of wider programme and business
- Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level
Why data centres?
The data centre industry is one of the fastest-growing and most essential sectors in the world, enabling modern life that depends on data, connectivity, and technology. It's where digital infrastructure meets human innovation. At BCS, we help deliver the projects that make this possible, from the land and power that data centres rely on to the complex builds that bring them to life. The industry is global, human, and full of opportunity with major events, innovation, and collaboration happening every month. This is an exciting chance to grow your career in a sector that’s shaping the future, with occasional travel, international projects, and the opportunity to tell the stories behind an industry that never stands still.
About BCS
BCS Consultancy is a global data centre consultancy helping clients deliver complex projects from land and utilities to full project management. Our teams in London, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt work with leading developers, operators, and investors to bring data centre projects to life, on time and on budget. We make it possible.
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