Senior Project Manager

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this – providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect.

Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions. Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.

You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It’s a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you’ll both take pride in and feel passionate about.

Senior Project Managers are team-focussed with a clear skill and desire to lead and develop their team of Project Managers. You will be experienced at leading multidisciplinary teams on complex and intrusive programmes & projects, and be able to drive continuous improvement and quality through each of your workstreams. Developing and nurturing stakeholder and supply chain relationships will be key to the successful provision of flexible solutions for the wider Heathrow Airport team. Contract management, project reporting and adherence to the Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle will ensure that your programmes deliver the agreed benefits back into the business.

Your role will involve:

• Plan, lead and manage the project team to ensure an integrated, sustainable, and effective solution is delivered which meets the project brief and benefits realisation.
• Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders and ensure that all user requirements are captured, and approvals are in place to meet schedule dates, as well as understanding regulatory requirements.
• End to end execution planning and management, ensuring clear goals, roles and deliverables are well defined to ensure delivery of the goals and value for money of the expenditure.
• Direct deployment of Safety obligations and initiatives and via everyone involved or touched by the project.
• Ensure the integration of design, development, construction delivery, commissioning and process requirements is achieved using the subject matter experts in the team (including own expertise as appropriate).
• Accountable for reporting of project performance using project controls tools, including earned value and quantitative risk analysis.
• Ensure the project deliverables have been tested, commissioned, and handed into operation in accordance with Heathrow requirements.
• Ensure post project reviews are done and learning and benefits realisation are captured.

Essential Skills:

• Degree qualification in an appropriate discipline, or equivalent academic achievement.
• Professional qualifications (membership of an appropriate institution) or evidence demonstrating continued personal development.
• Experience in a range of capital / revenue projects with a clear understanding of project management particularly APM.
• Proven track record in planning and implementation of complex projects, within a live operational environment, with multiple stakeholder interfaces.
• Experience of commercial and contractual environment.

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities. Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences.

A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore. It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we’ll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

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As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.