Senior Project Manager - Defence & Security
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description
We are excited to grow our project management capability within our UK Defence team.
Responsibilities
* Operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives.
* Deliver scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and possess deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.
* Oversee agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed and resources fully utilised to deliver against an agreed programme.
* Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules, track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.
* Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to meet deadlines.
* Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure delivery to compliant standards.
* Provide advice to colleagues on behaviours to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes.
* Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends, and provide recommendations supporting project decision‑making.
* Use knowledge of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations to senior management to improve processes and systems.
* Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations.
* Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
* Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.
Qualifications & Experience
* Possess skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects/programmes typically ranging between £5m and £150m.
* Responsible for setting project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders.
* Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery.
* Responsible for performance management of project team / resource.
Required
* Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
* Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
* Experience in managing business relationships at middle‑management level.
* Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.
* Ability to obtain BPSS clearance.
Advantageous
* Experience in NEC Contract Suites.
* In depth knowledge of the Defence & Security sector.
* Ability to obtain SC clearance.
* Ability to obtain DV clearance.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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