Senior Project Manager in Cambridge

This Project Management role is accountable and responsible for the day-to-day management and delivery of a project ensuring the timely delivery of equipment versions/variants to agreed project timescales within a larger programme. Working within an applied matrix organisation – in particular working in collaboration with the engineering, procurement, supply-chain and production departments – the role will foster and encourage the culture and operational effectiveness of Integrated Project Teams (IPTs). As a member of the Bids and Programmes job family, you will be expected to support an integrated – whole Marshall – Life Cycle Management Processes (LCM) and Business Management System (BMS) and bring your experience and knowledge to support the wider team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assigned as Project IPT lead, responsible for the Project deliverables.
• Responsible for assigned project requirements (e.g. technical, commercial, project management, delivery etc., both internal & external), ensuring they are clearly understood from the outset and documented in the appropriate Project Documentation set.
• Lead the Project assigned IPT for the designated/assigned Project; working with the lead Programme Manager/Director and functional teams to form the Organisational Breakdown Structure and the associated Responsibility Matrix (RAM) ensuring this is reflective within the PMP.
• Manage and resolve matters relating to costs, work schedules, commercial technical and production issues.
• Working with the assigned Procurement & Supply Chain colleagues, support the delivery of subcontracts, and subcontract relationships, as required, ensuring delivery is in line with project and overall programme needs.
• Ownership of the Project budget, leading and approving allocation to the appropriate Work Package and associated WBS items.
• Ensuring BAC, BAC(changes), EAC and ETCs are reviewed and reported accurately with any cost variance clearly understood; ensuring parametric and trend analysis results are fully utilised with little to no ‘opinion based’ reporting.
• Generation of monthly SPI, CPI, whole EVM and CPA data as required from the integrated project schedules.
• Management of all other project financial targets in support of Revenue, Cash and Margin.
• Proactively and effectively lead all associated bid, project and programme risks - with clear definition of risk description, cause, consequence (cost and schedule impacts) and mitigation plans; collaborating with assigned Project IPT colleagues – in particular assigned Project Controller(s) and Project Planner(s).
• Accountable for the Project Change Management regime (including maintenance of the Project Performance Measurement Baseline).
• Leading the Project IPT in monitoring of ‘Change’ in time, cost, quality [technical and contractual changes], ensuring a concise historical and future-state of ‘Project Change’ is fully documented to enable the incorporation of all authorised changes.
• Deputise for lead Programme Manager/Director for the Programme as required for events, absence periods (e.g., vacation) and other tasks and activities as drawn up by the lead Programme Manager/Director.
• Undertake additional activities as required by line management, the Business Line Director and the Central Operations Leadership Team.
• Support the adherence of the Lifecycle Management (LCM) Processes.
• Preparing and managing the tailored processes through governance sign-off.
• Support the co-ordination of resource requirements - ensuring data inputs are submitted to the IBP team for the bids and projects within the programme; presenting IBP foresight for upcoming activities.
• Support and manage effective 'Lessons Learned' (LFE - Learning From Experience) activities.

Capability Behavioural and Technical Competencies:

• Experienced in ‘front line’ project management roles, ideally in the defence domain – undertaking delivery roles in one or more of a combination in Bids, Projects, project-engineering / equipment-engineering, production and delivery.
• Some knowledge of engineering development techniques for projects including: technical requirements management, development and qualification validation and verification phases, technical risk, concurrency of design and production, project planning, project control, change management, performance measurement, cost control and risk & opportunity management.
• Awareness of post-delivery support such as in-service product modification, with an understanding of DRACAS (Data Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System).
• Worked within, or lead multi-functional teams in a collaborative matrix-managed ‘IPT’ environment.
• Ideally, experience of procurement and supply-chain contract delivery and manufacturing processes in principle.
• Experience of the full product development lifecycle of complex integrated systems; New Product Development (NPD) and New Production Introduction (NPI).
• Some experience with reading and interpreting reports from Project Scheduling tools (e.g. MSP, P6 Primavera) and Integrated Baseline Planning (IBP).
• Knowledgeable in EVM, SPI and CPI, SRA and CPA and explain their full terms and how they are set-up and exercised on a Project.
• Experienced in managing a project plan, creating control objectives to ensure successful project execution.
• Has some experience in Risk Management within a project.
• Ability in identifying risks (and opportunities) associated with a project and supporting the development of risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans; awareness of Risk Adjusted Scheduling.
• Desirable but not essential, APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), or PMI Project Management Professional (PMP); including APM Risk Level 2.
• Desirable: Knowledge of systems engineering and how to apply in a Project environment.