Senior Project Manager (Programme Operating Model Lead)

Essex, Kent or London Permanent Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to take a leading role on a major infrastructure project? Can you manage delivery integration? Are you an experienced Project Manager? Then, read on. This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow. To ensure structures, roles, interfaces, and governance are clear we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us. Working on a major joint venture, you’ll manage the programme’s operating model, delivery partner integration, and centralised interface management.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Develop and maintain the Operating Model, ensuring it is clear and well-documented
• Manage Delivery Partner Integration, ensuring alignment to collaborative working expectations
• Oversee Centralised Interface Management to maintain an up-to-date and precise Interface Matrix
• Identify structural integration gaps and support interface assurance
• Manage day-to-day management, coordination and delivery of assigned project scope, ensuring alignment with programme baselines, performance objectives
• Build and maintain effective working relationships to ensure shared understanding of project objectives—including safety, programme, risks and issues
• Support the development of team and provide pastoral care

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Possess Chartered status or APM, MSP, PMQ (or equivalent)
• Previous experience leading teams to manage projects in the infrastructure sector
• Experience designing or managing Operating Models, governance structures, or organisational frameworks
• Experience in interface management and cross‑functional alignment
• Skilled and experienced at defining roles, responsibilities and interfaces
• Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans
• Clear demonstration of commercial acumen with the capability to negotiate and oversee contracts to achieve results and ensure value for money
• Experience in innovation, sustainability, and best practice in major programme delivery
• Solid skills in facilitation strategic, clarity mapping, leadership and decision‑making ability
• Clear and effective communicator with the ability to persuade others, with well-developed structural and analytical thinking skills

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.