Software Project Manager R0237448

Project Manager

Would you be interested in managing projects in the Aerospace industry? Morson are currently recruiting for a project manager to work with Thales in Glasgow on a 6-month contract. You will be working across multiple projects, overseeing teams to ensure products are delivered to best practice and within acceptable timescales.

You’ll be expected to be able to manage complex projects using change control, commercial awareness and stakeholder management. You will be responsible for ensuring project management capability strengths and weaknesses are identified and managed. This will involve providing coaching and direct support to less experienced project managers. You will coordinate the relationship with internal and external key UK and international customers. This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week on site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of a project team ensuring that members of the project team are actively managing Risk and Opportunities, and have a robust Project Management Plan.
• Deliver the key results and performance metrics of the projects, including order intake, sales, gross margin and cash.
• Creation of the initial Project Plan during the bid or “Demand” phase of the lifecycle through requirement capture, work definition, estimating and scheduling that will include all Milestones, activities, resources and any other feature that will require to be delivered.
• Project Governance (the Gate and Stage Processes) over the bid and project delivery activities to ensure project, technical, procurement and support processes are applied and are effective in controlling risks.
• Ensure all business planning and reporting is published in accordance with Business directives e.g. Project Management reviews (PMR), Business Operations Report (BOR) and On Time Delivery (OTD).
• Drive Quality, Cost & Delivery performance through close working with other functions.
• Manage all project stakeholders ensuring strong communications are established and maintained.
• Ensure data integrity of all project information including financials and schedule. Use the Oracle and Primavera toolset to hold all financial, schedule and resource information.
• Ensure all Project activities undertaken comply with the relevant Thales Chorus processes.

Essential Requirements

• A proven track record of delivering successful projects in contexts relevant to Thales. Working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site organisation.
• Full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies.
• Extensive client and stakeholder management.
• Comprehensive experience and understanding of the Project Management process (including Change Control, Risk Management and Information Management).
• Comprehensive experience and knowledge of the project life cycle for complex projects through delivery of Development, Implementation, Closure and Support activity.
• Experience of working across boundaries, including knowledge of commercial management, best practice supply chain and finance functions.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to deal with customers, partners, suppliers and other parts of the business (stakeholder management skills).
• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills with written presentation and report writing skills.
• Analytical skills aligned with the need to carry out detailed investigation of cost variance(s) and publishing of financial information directly into Company financial reports.
• Educated to degree level in a discipline that is compatible with the requirements of Project Management

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance

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