Group Project Manager

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Job Description

Job Title: Group Project Manager

Location: London, Bristol or Plymouth - Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF52544

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Group Project Manager at our London, Bristol or Plymouth site.

The role

As a Group Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will sit at group functional level to create and apply best practice and ways of working for project management activities and capabilities across Babcock.

Day to day, you'll deliver key project management functions in support of the overall project delivery

  • Facilitate, develop and agree requirements , project scope and solutions for specific outputs and work packages
  • Support the development of accurate and up-to-date financial and schedule estimates
  • Support the planning, monitor and control of work packages
  • Produce and communicate project-reporting data and metrics

Essential experience of the Group Project Manager:

  • Delivery of Programme/Projects
  • Project lifecycle experience working on all or some of the project lifecycle phases from bid through to close out
  • Experience of applying core project management techniques, with demonstrable ability
  • Managing teams/projects (not line management)
  • Managing multiple stakeholders and complex comms

This is a hybrid role, with some travel every other week to London, Bristol or Plymouth and possible international travel.

Qualifications for the Group Project Manager:

  • Academic - Batchelors degree and/or project management qualifications (APM PMQ desirable or agreement to attain)
  • APM membership/similar

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC (can start on BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 09/09/2023

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