Senior Project Manager Heritage in Stoke-on-Trent

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across a diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Use of the full range of Project Management Process.
• Proactive day to day responsibility for small-medium sized projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision and supporting larger projects and programmes of work.
• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
• Prepare and evaluate tenders, contractor/consultant selection and contract documentation.
• Support risk and value management, including facilitation of workshops and project risk registers.
• Contract administration for relevant contract provisions, monthly reporting and chairing project meetings.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health & Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Undertake service in compliance with client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects.
• Support Senior PM team as required.
• Beginning to provide advice on procurement and contracts.
• Responsibility for, and must be committed to promoting, protecting, developing and enabling the business and your colleagues, within the parameter of your job role.
• Support bid and tender preparation and business development.
• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service level.
• Starting to provide leadership to the staff, where required.
• Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.
• Starting to mentor and coach team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.
• Developing and managing the Project Programmes and obtaining the buy-in of all stakeholders.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Deliver results in a client facing role.
• 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.