Senior Project Manager

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Based –Cheadle - 3 days per week in the office

Hybrid working arrangement: 3 days per week on site (based on full time hours - This role will require customer interaction with international travel across Customer, Internal and Supplier.

What the role has to offer:

• Drive continuous improvement in ways of working to increase growth

• To be involved in a business area with significant business growth plans

• Opportunity to develop skills and capability within a high-profile challenging project environment.

Core Benefits:

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes.

• Performance-related bonus

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)

• 24 hours volunteering paid for

• Private healthcare (grade dependent)

• Pension scheme

• Life cover

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

• Gym membership discounts

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Under Water Systems(UWS) business to join the international Mine Warfare team

In this role you will take the lead on delivering products and projects successfully across the full development project lifecycle and you will be part of the leadership team helping guide project governance and implementation.

Some of the Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Leadership and management – motivating and supporting the work-package team and individuals within the Project Team

• Role modelling the Thales Leadership Model behaviours, embedding a strong sense of delivery accountability and a proactive risk and opportunity management culture at all levels of the team

• Managing stakeholders – building trust and confidence through open dialogue and leveraging adjacent functions as appropriate e.g. engineering, industry, procurement.

• Defining execution strategies and leading the creation of schedule baselines and structures for various work packages

• Ensuring that each work-package maintains a robust baseline at all times through the execution phase of the lifecycle and that forecasts against the baseline are accurate

• Ensuring that appropriate KPIs are established and controlled for planned outcomes E.g. On Time Delivery and to support confidence in forecasts

• Ensuring robust project controls are deployed and effective and representing the project at governance reviews

• Liaison with contributing functions to drive quality, cost & delivery performance

• Management of change to baselined scope including the application of associated bid governance, leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and the supply chain to develop proposals and ensuring that integrity of the project baseline is maintained at all times

Experience & Skills:

This role requires a strong leader who will seek to demonstrate and develop their skills and capability within a high-profile challenging project environment.

You will have a proven track record of delivering challenging development projects in a context relevant to Thales within a complex, multi-site organisation together with the following:-

• Leading the process of structuring and planning complex projects and the tailored deployment of best practice project controls.

• Directing project activities with reference to the baseline and critical path, with a focus on proactive risk and opportunity management and controlling variance to time/cost/quality

• Project financial and contractual management

• Working across functional boundaries to achieve alignment and support for project objectives

• Demand/business planning principles in a project context with a focus on the reliable forecasting of resource requirements (including critical skills) and working with adjacent functions to schedule those appropriately

• Representing projects through established governance, giving an evidence-based account of progress and distilling key risks/opportunities/support needed for Senior Management

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires Security Clearance (SC). It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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