Senior Project Manager
24 days ago
Birmingham
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors. \n \n Essential Duties & Responsibilities: \n\n • Use of the full range of Project Management Process.\n, • Proactive day to day responsibility for small-medium sized projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision and supporting larger projects and programmes of work.\n, • Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.\n, • Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor/consultant selection and contract documentation.\n, • Support risk and value management, including facilitation of workshops and project risk registers.\n, • Contract administration for relevant contract provisions, monthly reporting and chairing project meetings.\n, • Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.\n, • Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health & Safety and Quality Assurance.\n, • Undertake service in compliance with client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable.\n, • Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.\n, • Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.\n, • Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects.\n, • Support Senior PM team as required.\n, • Beginning to provide advice on procurement and contracts.\n, • Responsibility for, and must be committed to promoting, protecting, developing and enabling the business and your colleagues, within the parameter of your job role\n, • Support bid and tender preparation and business development.\n, • Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service level.\n, • Starting to provide leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.\n, • Starting to mentor and coach team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.\n, • Developing and managing the Project Programmes and obtaining the buy-in of all stakeholders.\n\n \n Knowledge & Skills Required: \n\n • Deliver results in a client facing role\n, • Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.\n, • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.\n, • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.\n, • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.\n, • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.\n, • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.\n, • Starting to lead a team.\n, • Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role.\n, • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.\n, • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines\n, • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain\n, • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.\n\n \n Preferred Education and Experience: \n\n • Ideally degree qualified (industry or non-industry)\n, • MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience.\n, • Supporting Project Management Qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner / Certified Project Manager / MSP / Risk Management.\n, • Some formal Leadership training.\n, • 5+ years’ experience (at least 3 years post qualification).\n, • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.\n, • Strong experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC\n, • Strong technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management.\n, • Good experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle.\n, • Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications.\n, • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.\n, • Developing interpersonal and team building skills. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff.\n, • Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management.\n, • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.\n, • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.\n, • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.\n\n \n Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. \n \n Note for Recruitment Agencies: \n We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release. \n
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