The roleholder will be responsible for the management of projects to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.

Through the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience taking end to end responsibility for delivery of complex projects or a medium project portfolio, establishing and maintaining the correct structures for control and monitoring.

The roleholder will be responsible for the management of projects to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.

Through the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience taking end to end responsibility for delivery of complex projects or a medium project portfolio, establishing and maintaining the correct structures for control and monitoring.

Responsibilities:

Clearly and thoroughly identify the scope of the project(s)/portfolio by:

• Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels within the organisation, to define and achieve mutual understanding of the scope
• Listening for, uncovering and resolving misunderstandings or disagreements about the scope
• Ensuring all project resources understand the scope as well as how it will affect other projects within the portfolio

Planning

• Work with the team to identify and schedule all the work required to fulfil the scope:
• Understand what constitutes an end-to-end, thorough cross-functional schedule for the project and involve stakeholders, as appropriate, to create a valid plan; be able to discuss risk areas and convey impacts to scope or costs if a shorter schedule is demanded
• Plan the project(s)/portfolio in sufficient detail to ensure integration of all activities, identification of cross-portfolio dependencies and understanding of critical paths and key milestones
• Obtain approval of the plan through effective communication skills, ensuring thorough understanding of the plan, its implications on revenues, delivery dates, resources, and deliverables
• Ensure a comprehensive budget is prepared, reflecting the plan and all resource requirements
• Ensure non-people resources are identified (e.g. tools, logistical costs, legal fees) so that the project budget will be accurate and remain affordable

Resourcing

• Identify resourcing requirements and secure appropriate resources in line with the project/portfolio plans:
• Communicate to ensure that all resources understand their roles & accept their responsibilities, and escalate where that commitment is not present
• Direct and motivate the project team(s) to achieve the desired results, using matrix management where appropriate, and ensure effective communication is maintained throughout the project
• Ensure effective management of third party suppliers to the project(s)
• Ensure all necessary cross-functional resources are identified and  justified  in the event of constraints arising as a result of other work responsibilities

Execution & Control

• Day-to-day management of the project/portfolio:
• Manage the project(s)/portfolio time, cost and quality activities, in line with LGI project frameworks and tools
• Produce reports in line with the defined governance requirements
• Ensure thorough risk and issue management across the project(s), instigate mitigation actions, identify contingency plans and manage items through to conclusion
• Ensure effective communication to the project teams, internal and external stakeholders, partners, suppliers and customers
• Manage proposed changes to project parameters – e.g. scope, budget, schedules.
• Monitor the quality of project deliverables and ensure project objectives/critical success factors are met
• Conduct project meetings and attend programme and portfolio meetings where required
• Establish effective working relationships with all key stakeholders

Transition To Business As Usual 

• Where appropriate, deliver successful outcomes ensuring adoption and embedding of change in the business through:
• Successful engagement of the BAU functions to establish any infrastructure and/or processes that need to be delivered to support project outcomes
• Ensure a smooth hand-over to the BAU teams, and any other supporting functions identified
• Fit for purpose project outcomes, including relevant documentation transferred to BAU
• Acceptance of project outcomes by the BAU teams

People Management

• To take the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Group’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.

Key requirements:

• Proven experience of successful  end to end project delivery with property and construction background, having delivered significant restack and property fit out projects
• Excellent communicator with strong Stakeholder Management skills.  Projects will involve working closely with representatives from many functions across the organisation and with third party suppliers
• Able to deliver with pace and energy
• Individual who sets high expectations to deliver successful outcomes
• Able to work together with others in a collaborative way, including internal & external suppliers and contractors
• Prince 2 qualified or equivalent as a minimum

Experience

• Project management and delivery experience, with specific experience in the property and construction industry
• Proven experience of delivering complex projects to time, cost and quality
• Successful experience of translating analysis into practical implementation
• Experience in facilitation and running workshops
• Experience of different project management approaches e.g. agile and waterfall

Leadership/Skills

• Resource and people management experience (including matrix management)
• Well-developed planning and organising skills including scope and schedule management
• Risk and Issue management experience
• Finance and cost control management experience
• Benefits management experience – including supporting the production of business cases with measurable benefits
• Outstanding communication and inter-personal skills, willing to roll up sleeves to support beyond the role of a  project manager
• Effective negotiation skills and utilisation of methods and techniques for selection and management of 3rd party contracts
• High-level of IT literacy, proficient user of Microsoft Office tools and MS Project
• Effective decision making and use of decision discretion, facilitating senior stakeholder decisions
• Utilises methods of identifying abstract issues into problem statements and is able to drive these forwards
• Able to identify the decision makers and influencers in order to successfully implement target operating model

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in project management, such as APM Project Management Qualification (PPQ) or another recognised qualification (e.g. Prince2, Prince2 Agile or PMP) Managing Successful Programmes
• Desirable is Chartered status of APM, Change Management Practitioner 

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques and tools required for the effective management of projects in a portfolio management environment

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 30 days' holiday, an annual supplement for private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, as well as a cash car allowance scheme, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

Please contact Stacie Burnett, Resourcing Lead - Stacie.Burnett@landg.com for further information.