Project Delivery Manager - Pharmaceutical, Construction

Experis; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management consultancy seeks a Project Delivery Manager to lead engineering projects in Stevenage. This role involves ensuring timely delivery, managing budgets, and compliance with safety and quality standards. The ideal candidate has 5-10 years of experience in project delivery, preferably within the pharmaceutical or construction sectors, and excellent communication skills for engaging senior stakeholders. The position offers a hybrid work model: four days onsite and one day remote.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of project delivery experience.
• Preferred experience in Pharmaceutical, Engineering, or Construction sectors.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a portfolio of engineering projects from initiation to completion.
• Ensure delivery on time, within budget, and in compliance with standards.
• Oversee risk management and financial reporting.
• Conduct assurance reviews and stage-gate assessments.

Skills

Project delivery experience

Pharmaceutical industry knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Job description

Project Delivery Manager - Pharmaceutical, Construction

The location of the role is Stevenage (4 days per week onsite, 1 day remote). The duration of the contract is 9 months. The pay rate on offer is 700 – 850 per day (inside IR35, via Umbrella agency).

Role Summary

The Project Delivery Manager is responsible for leading and managing a portfolio of engineering projects from initiation to completion, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and in compliance with safety, quality, and governance standards. The role emphasizes customer and stakeholder management, business case development, benefits delivery, assurance checks, and seamless handover to operations. The manager will oversee risk management, financial reporting, and contractor performance while ensuring adherence to business standards and regulatory requirements. This position requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and communication skills to drive continuous improvement and deliver strategic business objectives effectively.

Key accountabilities of the role

• Accountable for end-to-end project delivery at the site(s) including management of projects through all delivery stages (with consideration for financial/operational recovery plans), approval of budget changes, performance management against service partner KPIs, risk assessment/mitigation, and handover effectiveness.
• Ensure projects deliver agreed benefits to the business, tracking performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ensuring alignment with site and corporate objectives.
• Conduct assurance reviews and stage-gate assessments to ensure projects meet quality, compliance, and governance standards at every phase.
• Work with the Head of Facilities & Engineering and Engineering/Operations Lead determining optimal delivery and procurement strategy.
• Develop project options in collaboration with the Head of Facilities & Engineering, Occupancy/Space Planning, Engineering/Operations Leads (and/or delegate Tech Ops Engineering Managers) and assigned Project Manager for schemes to present to the project sponsor. Develop preferred scheme for scope development and detail design by design consultants.
• Work closely with project sponsor, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to plan and develop user requirements, scope, project deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives.
• Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance. Ensure safe and compliant execution by competent contractors of all capital projects following country regulations, Policies, Standards, SOPs and site-specific requirements.
• Ensure that adverse events related to project delivery are investigated and appropriate corrective and preventative actions put in place. Stop the project if appropriate and escalate.
• Through project delivery teams and other stakeholders, RDES Ops, EHS, etc. ensure that Root Cause Analysis is performed when project contractual deliverables or compliance with business standards or national legislation are not met.
• Define the risk management strategy for each project, align any value engineering and ensure that associated processes and tools required to ensure effective identification, monitoring and management of project risk are implemented.
• Participate in Communities of Practice to share learnings of external or internal benchmarks, innovations and best practices for Project Management.
• Actively participate in site and regional governance meetings with Service Partners and engage in regular operational forums including weekly tiered meetings as required.
• Drive continuous improvement in project delivery processes, leveraging lessons learned and best practices to enhance future performance

Key skills and experience

• 5‑10 years’ Project delivery experience
• Preferred industry experience in Pharmaceutical, Engineering, and/or Construction
• Excellent communication – ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Ability to work autonomously