Role: Project Manager
Location: Hybrid - Farnborough 2 days per week
Salary: £73,000 per annum
Length: 6 months with possible extensions

Candidates MUST hold Active SC Clearance

We are actively looking to secure a Project Manager to join Experis as one of our expert consultants, delivering services to our clients.

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.
To support the successful delivery of a complex business system change programme across UK Defence. Responsible for the delivery of capablity, its effective and effficent roll-out, the adoption of change and realisation of benefits.

Key Accountablities
. Delivery of the project outcomes to agreed baseline (time, cost, quality)
. Support delivery and implementation of Change Management initiatives to realise benefits in the Business
. Implementing and embedding change and new ways of working alongside Business as Usual project delivery
. Help resolving conflicts within the programme and collaborating across QinetiQ
. Reporting progress to programme/portfolio manager
. Manage all stakeholders & supporting functions to ensure that the data is updated regularly to report against
. Ensure all meetings have formal & agreed recording of minutes, actions, decisions, and those are managed through to completion.
. Leading the generation and execution of associated plans, working in collaboration with Functions and Business Units
. Support achievement of business performance KPIs (milestone adherence, productivity, progress)
. Be the champion for what you are delivering, by providing project briefs to management and attending coordination meetings to demonstrate synergies between projects
. Establish and grow strong & trusted relationships with stakeholders.
. Proactive management to avoid issues occurring wherever possible, if not then the satisfactory resolution of conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ.
. Ensure all activities across project delivery are conducted in line with the Operating Framework
. Establish and maintain clear communication & data storage, utilised by all project team members
. Operating in a Safe & Secure manner.

Key Competencies
. Influence and align others towards this common purpose, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.
. Integrity; being open, honest and doing the right thing. Keeping promises, admitting when I don't have the answer and when I have made a mistake.
. Communication; being able to effectively communicate as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning.
. Stakeholder Management; being able to identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the programme outcomes.
. Teamwork; being able to create an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.
. Human Resource Management; supporting functional teams (including HR) to develop and manage our people in line with legal requirements and QinetiQ policy.
. Negotiation & Conflict Management; being able to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.
. Change Management; being able to develop and enact a structured approach to change in support of QinetiQ's vision, enrolling the impacted people to embrace the changes required to deliver the desired benefits.
. Benefits Management; being able to identify, plan, agree and realise tangible and intangible benefits from the activities conducted within the programme.