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Consultant – Junior Programme/Project Manager

Bristol/Wincanton/Fareham, United Kingdom (UK), TP Group [TP-CJPPM]

Field(s) of expertise
Project and Service Management
Job type
Permanent
Education
Bachelor
Deadline
Closed

About this job

As a ‘Junior Programme/Project Manager’ Consultant for TP Group you will play an integral role in supporting a client’s project team deliver timely and safe outputs. You will do this by helping to drive efficiency and quality improvement, raising awareness of risks, managing key stakeholders and helping the project team make better business decisions. You will be working at the cutting edge of technology alongside experts with deep sector knowledge on both small agile projects and large capital investments with a driven focus on providing practical solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities

  • Assisting client delivery teams define project scope.
  • Supporting the production of Project/Programme schedules.
  • Managing the impact of change to the project’s schedule, cost and risk exposure.
  • Project planning, estimating and optimizing.
  • Progress tracking, analysis of performance metrics and supporting mitigation plans.
  • Dealing positively with customers and key stakeholders to provide meaningful progress reports.
  • Supporting the production of operational plans, reports and proposals.
  • Identifying opportunities for process / delivery improvement.
  • Tracking dependencies, ensuring team has the required inputs ahead of time.
  • Building new relationships and maintaining the relationships we have with our current customers

Profile

Essential Requirements:

  • Experience of working in project/programme management.
  • Familiarity with traditional management methodologies (e.g. APM BoK,Prince2) and a good knowledge of Agile project management.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience of using MS Project and/or P6.
  • Experience of delivering projects in a UK MOD or business and safety programme environment.
  • Experience of working within a project team delivering to defined and agreed schedules.
  • Knowledge of Earned Value Management.

Preferred but not essential:

  • Agile Qualification (e.g. Scrum Master, SAFe Agile).
  • Experience of stakeholder management.
  • Experience of customer requirement gathering.
  • Prior experience of working to recognized quality standards, processes and procedures. E.g. ISO9001, ISO61508, TickITplus, ISO 12207.

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