Solutions Project Manager

Reports to: Programme Lead (Airports)

Location: London - Heathrow

Contract Type: Permanent

Introduction to role

The Solutions Project Manager, working closely with the Commercial and Accounts teams, and having experience of bid or tender proposal works, will lead multidisciplinary teams to build and develop solutions that meet our customers’ needs.

Role Responsibilities

• Through effective leadership and motivation, drive teams, internal support functions and sub-contractors to deliver high quality solutions as per the project requirements and deliverables.
• Using best practice and lessons learned, support the project teams to develop realistic, challenging and robust project plans to ensure the project delivery is a success.
• Support the development of any business case or bids, whilst ensuring that the plan will realise project and business benefits.
• Manage project solutions through innovative thinking, risk planning and key stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure triangulation between scope, schedule & cost to maintain the plan & forecast and reporting/investigating any deviation with necessary output escalated and communicated for lessons learned.
• Use standard project management methodologies and tooling to improve the quality of work and delivery process, encouraging standardisation in our reporting, communication and process management methods.
• Continuously improve upon your own and others’ project management disciplines, community development and best practices to help support better individual growth and collective project delivery.
• Take ownership for line management duties, oversee packages of work, by planning, coordinating and leading individuals, groups, or external suppliers to deliver for the benefit of the project.
• Support to achieve high performance on all facets of project delivery such as HSEQ, project controls, commercial, contractual, legal, design, engineering, construction & install, commission, test, handover and benefits realisation, within the triple constraints of (cost, time and quality).
• Monitor and control the output of work, whilst facilitating accurate forecasting and reporting on performance variables including resourcing requirements.
• Ensure support for commercial and contractual elements with your team and that they are managed accurately and in a timely manner and support in realising potential opportunities for change/variations.
• Work with departments to create solutions, solve problems and ensure the project opportunity has support to perform as expected (to cost, time and quality).
• Identify deviations in projects, analyse potential problems, propose solutions and share with stakeholders.
• Motivate the team to complete project deliverables safely, on time, to budget and to the required quality standards.
• Encourage and construct good coherent relationships and partnerships with project teams, external suppliers and subcontractors, internal business support functions and wider stakeholders - promoting project engagement and successful delivery against the project requirements and deliverables.
• Be a trusted partner with our customers and stakeholders through effective and strong working relationships.
• Ensure that customer expectations are met or exceeded, whilst maintaining strong partnerships with our customer’s primary contractors.

Role Qualification and Skills

• Strong stakeholder engagement experience, relationships are an integral part of building a strong connection with our client and working closely with them to build trust, confidence and capabilities.
• Formal project management qualification e.g. APM PMQ, Prince2 or equivalent.
• Formal contract management qualification e.g. NEC3 or NEC4.
• Health, safety & environment knowledge through training in e.g. CDM, IOSH, NEBOSH, SMSTS.
• Demonstrable evidence of delivering complex projects.
• Experience of bid or tender proposal support.
• Confident, outgoing and personable individual.
• Strong leader, manager and team player.
• Proactive hands-on approach.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate and prioritise multiple projects within a fast-moving environment.
• Desirable, but training will be given if not: Experience of Aviation Project delivery, particularly around baggage automation or technology projects.
• Experience of bid or tender proposal support.
• Understanding of Baggage System component products or Hold Baggage Screening (HBS).
• Adept in the use of MS SharePoint, MS Teams and MS Office applications.

Please note that UK travel may be necessary along with a valid UK driving licence. Some occasional overseas travel may be required.

What we offer

• 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays).
• Bupa Medical Cover.
• YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers.
• A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Pension with Aviva.
• Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.