Deputy Project Performance Manager

Jacobs; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in the UK is looking for a Deputy Project Performance Manager to support major infrastructure programmes. The role involves applying lean methodologies for efficient delivery and managing relationships with diverse teams. Candidates should have strong communication skills and experience in civil infrastructure. Offering competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and extensive benefits including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible Work Arrangements

24 days holiday

Robust Pension Contributions

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Enhanced Parental Leave

Income Protection

Professional Development

Qualifications

• Experience in operating in a civil infrastructure/construction programme.
• Ability to facilitate planning and problem-solving workshops.
• Strong experience with lean principles.

Responsibilities

• Support efficient delivery of a complex package of deliverables.
• Manage priorities and eliminate blockages in workflows.
• Coordinate teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Skills

Lean tools and techniques

Client engagement

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Organisational skills

Tools

Asana

Monday.com

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Market Water

At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your Impact

➡️ At Jacobs, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting some of the UK’s largest infrastructure programmes. ➡️ By applying lean methodologies, you’ll ensure the efficient delivery of complex packages, working closely with other Project Performance Managers and colleagues to provide seamless support to integrated project and client teams. ➡️ Your efforts will directly contribute to the success of high‑profile civil infrastructure construction projects, making a tangible difference in the industry.

What’s In It For You?

📈 Jacobs empowers inventive thinking, providing the support, means, and space to deliver bold solutions for extraordinary and everyday challenges. 📈 Complex Delivery Management consultants enable the realisation of more efficient and reliable delivery in major programmes and strategic projects, unlocking innovation potential and embedding a continuous improvement culture across integrated teams. 📈 The group’s core capabilities range from programme and project management, process mapping, collaborative planning, lean production thinking agile management, transformation and innovation consulting. 📈 An interest in best practice ways of working and the ability to impress these on others is critical. You must be comfortable working in diverse and potentially difficult team environments where you will be expected to facilitate collaboration and deliver performance improvement. 📈 The breadth of opportunities suits those who have the curiosity to experience new environments and the capability to quickly adapt. You will enjoy success in delivery with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement. 📈 Join us in a world where you can thrive and make a significant impact.

Benefits

💷 Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills and experience. ⌚ Flexible Work Arrangements: Benefit from hybrid, part‑time, and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations. 🏖️ 24 days holiday + option to buy a further 10 days. 👵 Robust Pension Contributions: Enhanced pension contributions up to 10% to secure your future. ⚕️ Comprehensive Health Coverage: Single medical cover and Digital GP service, with options to add your partner and family. 👶 Family Planning Support: Access to fertility healthcare and family planning services. 👨👩👧👦 Enhanced Parental Leave: Enjoy enhanced parental leave pay and free membership to employee assistance and parental programs. 4️⃣ Life assurance at 4x your salary. ✄ Income Protection: Financial security in case of long‑term illness or injury. 😄 Wellbeing Hub: Free access to wellbeing apps like Calm and Daily Burn. 💼 Professional Development: We cover professional membership fees and provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities. 😇 Community Engagement: Participate in charity matched‑funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations.

Responsibilities

✅ As Deputy Project Performance Manager you will support some of the UK’s largest infrastructure programmes applying lean principles to support the efficient delivery of a complex package of deliverables. ✅ Working unsupervised with minimal direction, you will own the delivery for selected work packages to ensure on‑time delivery in line with project governance and assurance requirements. ✅ You’ll be coordinating teams; managing priorities, balancing workloads and eliminating blockages, as well as reporting on performance and escalating issues to workstream managers. ✅ Building strong working relationships will be critical to ensure effective communication, even whilst working remotely with technical experts, internal stakeholders, and the client. ✅ You’ll also be responsible for facilitating planning and problem‑solving workshops, driving decision making on complex issues.

Qualifications

☑️ Lean tools and techniques (e.g. Collaborative Planning, Visual Management, Last Planner). ☑️ Experience in operating in a civil infrastructure / construction programme and / or project environment with multiple stakeholders / multi‑disciplinary teams. ☑️ Experience with client engagement and relationship building. ☑️ Strong presentation and communication skills. ☑️ Some experience of using Task Management Tools (e.g. Asana, Monday.com, Planner), Power Query, PowerApps, PowerBI, and / or Power Automate. ☑️ Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and Teams.

You’ll be an investigative thinker with excellent problem‑solving skills and strong attention to detail. You’ll be adept at managing the production of large work packages, with personal resilience and great organisational skills being the key to your success. You’ll enjoy working with varied teams and clients, fostering a can‑do attitude. Motivated and enthusiastic, you’ll have a personal drive for high quality work, continuous improvement and lessons learnt, and you’ll be comfortable constructively questioning the accepted norms, always seeking a better way.

Jacobs operates a hybrid work environment and a 40‑hour working week as standard.

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About the Opportunity

Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.