Company Overview
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Role Overview and Responsibilities
TT Electronics, Abercynon, is hiring for a Head of Project Management and Commercial, responsible for driving sustainable business growth through the successful delivery of complex customer programmes.
A key element of the role is providing leadership and governance across programme execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to customer expectations whilst maintaining profitability and managing risk.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Building, nurturing, and expanding long-term strategic partnerships.
- Identifying opportunities to grow within existing programmes and develop new product or programme opportunities in the Rail, Defence and Industrial sectors.
- Providing leadership and governance across all customer programmes and projects from bid award through to delivery.
- Ensuring robust project management disciplines, controls, reporting, and risk management processes are embedded across the Programmes Team.
- Developing and executing commercial strategies that enhance profitability, sustainability, and growth within existing accounts.
- Leading contract renegotiations and bid management to secure favourable terms aligned with business objectives.
- Owning and delivering the key inputs into the Demand Review for the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process.
- Leading and managing the Programmes Team and Inside Sales Team, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and delivery against objectives.
- Identifying and mitigating commercial and contractual risks across bids and ongoing customer programmes.
- Maintaining deep knowledge of Rail, Defence and Industrial sector trends, customer developments, and competitor activities.
Qualifications, Skills and Attributes
What we're looking for:
- Significant project and programme management experience within a manufacturing, aerospace, defence, rail, or similarly regulated environment.
- Experience managing programme risks, schedules, resources, change control, and customer escalations.
- A strong track record in customer relationship management, particularly with long-term strategic accounts.
- Expertise in programme and bid management, with ability to negotiate and secure commercially favourable agreements.
- Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong financial and analytical acumen with the ability to manage budgets, assess risks, and drive profitability.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders and clients.
- Results-driven, proactive, and able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
The following would enhance your application but is not essential to apply:
- A formal project management qualification such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, or equivalent.
What we offer
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Healthcare cashback plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Free Fruit Tuesdays
- Sharesave
- Site incentive plan
- Financial wellbeing benefit
- Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounted RAC membership
- Discounted Gym membership
- Specsavers vouchers
- 183.75 hours annual leave plus bank holidays
- A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability
TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.
Our Recruitment Process
Formal Interviews will be held on site and include a tour of the facility.
Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). TT Electronics is unable to sponsor work visas for this role.
Successful candidates will be required to undertake and pass pre and during employment drug and alcohol testing.
Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World
We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you!
Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com
If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.
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TT Electronics does not accept any unsolicited CVs from third parties. Any CVs submitted by a third party for this or any other position will not be subject to any recruitment fees if hired.
