Project Manager

Turner Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Greater London seeks a professional to support change implementation and realize business benefits. The role emphasizes developing solutions that align with stakeholder needs while managing multi-disciplinary teams. Key qualifications include strategic thinking and a deep understanding of transport challenges. Successful candidates will have the ability to influence stakeholders and deliver projects that meet cost, time, and quality objectives. The position offers a hybrid working model with various benefits.

Benefits

Final salary pension scheme

Free travel on the TfL network

75% reimbursement of National Rail travel

30 days annual leave

Hybrid working approach

Discounted healthcare scheme

Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme

Retail, health, leisure offers

Discounted Eurostar travel

Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams or resolving technical challenges.
• Ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience in project delivery, problem definition, and business case development.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of change and realization of benefits.
• Develop prototype solutions and set technical requirements.
• Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving

Knowledge of transport disciplines

Project management skills

Risk management principles

Job description

Support the implementation of change and realisation of these benefits. We lead and deliver multidisciplinary projects, across product lifecycles, from ideation and business case, through to the operate and maintain phases. This includes understanding stakeholder needs, the business case, mitigating risks and establishing feasibility, developing prototype solutions, and setting technical requirements for delivering well defined business outcomes.

We are a team who sit across disciplines, leveraging our own knowledge and the technical expertise from colleagues and partnerships while maintaining a bird's eye view of how the solution integrates with the business.

Recent assignments within Business Engineering include ongoing work with engineering and maintenance teams to identify and implement cost saving initiatives, designing frameworks for Asset Strategy to inform long term financial plans, and providing technical support to the Net Zero matrix team to launch major environmental and commercial projects.

What We Are Looking For

Our team are curious, willing to question assumptions, with an inherent drive for positive change. We need to deal with large numbers of stakeholders and utilise these relationships. Our people are logical and able to pull information and expertise together to produce innovative solutions, with the problem‑solving mindset needed to see this through. Our team has a combination of attributes: technical ability including systems integration, coordinating and overseeing output of multi‑disciplinary teams, facilitating continuous improvement, taking ownership of projects and deliverables, delivering and embedding change.

Skills

• Commercial awareness, understanding of business cases, whole life costing fundamentals and procurement strategies to deliver optimal outcomes.
• Ability to think strategically – making connections across the organisation, communicating with, and developing these connections and stakeholders to scope, structure and deliver projects to agreed cost, time and resources.
• Ability to identify and evaluate options where there is uncertainty, aligned to business objectives, TfL’s corporate goals/vision and the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (or equivalent contexts).
• Deep understanding of the challenges of introducing new assets, technology or changes in business practice into complex, safety‑critical business environments and the necessary trade‑off between cost, time and quality.
• Detailed knowledge of one or several of the professional/technical disciplines deployed in transport and how they can be brought together appropriately in projects and programmes to solve client problems.
• Strong understanding of the delivery of projects at an early stage including a thorough knowledge of one or more of the following specialisms: business case development, whole life costing, securing sources of funding.
• Good understanding of project management skills needed to manage tasks, document, and embed change.
• Good understanding of the principles of risk management and value engineering.

Experience

• Experience managing small multi‑disciplinary teams or applying engineering practices to resolve low to medium complexity technical challenges.
• Experience of building relationships with and influencing a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within and outside the organisation.
• Experience of early‑stage project delivery, problem definition, concept development, option identification, engineering analysis techniques and business case development. (Essential)
• Experience of initiating and delivering business change, measuring and realising benefit. (Essential)

Application Process

Please apply using your CV and answering the screening questions. PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. Please note due to the holiday period you may not receive feedback on your application until the New Year.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability‑confident employer who guarantees an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28‑day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax‑efficient cycle‑to‑work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.