Project Manager

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Project Manager to join our proactive and innovative team aligned to the Transport and Manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities

The Project Manager will have full responsibility for project results in the context of delivery to cost, quality, schedule and stakeholder satisfaction.
Is able to maintain excellent working relationships with our customers and colleagues
Can problem-solve to ensure contractual issues are faced head-on and taken to resolution
Team-oriented, will roll their sleeves up and take a leadership position on their projects.
Creates project schedules and drives projects in cooperation with stakeholders.
Executes project within the defined requirements (e.g. regarding targets for project cost, time, quality, functionality and customer satisfaction).
Ensures business success and satisfaction of the customer by professional stakeholder management.
Ensures timely decisions about open issues, escalating if necessary.
Manages and ensures compliance to standards, working laws, rules and regulations, intellectual property rights.
Performs risk and opportunity management.
Performs budget and resource planning as well as generation of project agreement for project.
Aligns project targets with customer strategy (e.g. product portfolio, technology roadmap).
Drives a continuous improvement culture including e.g. reuse, cooperation, knowledge management, lessons learned.
Ensures appropriate Project documentation.
Incorporates customer feedback during project execution
The Project Manager will be expected to lead cross functional teams to deliver maximum value to the business and our customers.
The focus of the role will be on the effective coordination of activities leading to the successful delivery of projects on time and to budget.
The Project Manager will liaise closely with other key roles in the organisation (e.g. Sales, Programme Delivery Lead, Capability Leads and Engineers) to ensure the project meets the needs of the business.
This role offers the opportunity to work with multiple industry-leading companies in the fields of Rail.

Qualifications

Professional accreditation with recognised body such as APM, PMI (Chartered, Member)
APM PMQ/PPQ, Prince2 or equivalent
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.

Essential skills

Proven experience delivering IT infrastructure projects.
Commercially minded, with the ability to spot opportunities for added value, growth, and broader engagement for Expleo
Proven delivery record of multiple projects greater than £2M per year
Experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously
Experience with MS Project
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Experience of working in both Classical and Agile development environments

Desired skills

A reasonable understanding of cybersecurity principles and secure implementation within infrastructure-but not essential.

Experience

Extensive expertise as a Project Manager

What do I need before I apply

The role is hybrid and therefore will need travel to client sites across UK, work with the Expleo Transport & Manufacturing team, attend Expleo locations for F2F meetings - as well as offering work-from-home options.

Benefits

Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
Communicating and promoting vacancies
Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive