Project Manager

IAG Cargo; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Staff travel benefits

Discounted fares for standby

Learning & development benefits

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

IAG Cargo is seeking a skilled project manager to drive transformational initiatives within a global airfreight logistics setting. You will manage end-to-end delivery, budgeting, and governance, collaborating with suppliers and internal teams to secure successful outcomes.

The role requires strong planning, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities, with hybrid working arrangements and access to travel benefits and development resources.

Qualifications

• Proven project management and planning experience.
• Experience of planning and delivering business change activities at a project level.
• Experience in owning and driving effective identification and mitigation of risks, issues and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across various levels, including senior management.
• Experience working with or within a PMO for governance, planning and reporting.
• Exposure to end-to-end business case development in large organisations.
• Financial literacy and engagement with Finance and Reporting colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver transformational projects within scope, time, and budget.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Gather, analyse, and integrate supplier proposals to drive optimal solutions.
• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans with critical paths and risks.
• Maintain change management processes and balance constraints with priorities.
• Collaborate on resource planning and allocation across the organisation.
• Deliver clear communication to stakeholders at all levels throughout the lifecycle.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Embed change through effective business change plans to minimise disruption.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

PMO experience

Budget management

Tools

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations? At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to groundbreaking tech, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. We move cargo that positively impacts society worldwide. Whatever people need, wherever they are. At IAG Cargo we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need. We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling). Powered by five airlines, our reach is truly global – but it’s the impact we make that defines us. At IAG Cargo, we believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride. Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, that is Trusted to Deliver.

About The Role

• Plan and deliver transformational projects in alignment with internal controls, financial guidelines, and organisational priorities, ensuring high-quality delivery within scope, time, and budget.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities, using analysis and strong relationship-building skills to mitigate challenges and maximise success.
• Gather, analyse, and integrate proposals from multiple suppliers and stakeholders, providing well-informed recommendations that drive optimal solutions and meet project objectives.
• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans that clearly outline critical paths, risks, efficiencies, and opportunities for simplification or acceleration, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Maintain rigorous change management processes, facilitating trade-offs and adjustments as needed to balance project constraints and priorities.
• Collaborate on resource planning and allocation, working closely with resource owners to optimise the use of skills and capabilities across the organisation.
• Deliver clear and consistent communication to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment, transparency, and buy-in throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders, holding parties accountable for performance and ensuring project milestones are met.
• Embed change into the organisation by creating and executing effective business change plans that minimise disruption and enhance adoption.
• Adhere to standardised project management principles, tools, and techniques, while contributing to continuous improvement in delivery methods and outcomes.

It's All About You

What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo:

• Proven project management and planning experience, demonstrated by a successful track record of managing change projects to cost, quality and time
• Experience of planning and delivering business change activities at a project level
• Experience of owning and driving effective identification and mitigation of risks, issues and dependencies on projects, with support from other colleagues
• Solid stakeholder management skills, with a focus on immediate project-level colleagues, and with support to include senior management, operational staff, and external suppliers to achieve required outcomes
• Experience of working within, or alongside, a Programme Management Office (PMO), support effective governance, planning and progress reporting
• Exposure to and understanding of end-to-end business case development and approvals process for projects, in large, matrix-stye organisations
• Financially literate with understanding of core budget management principles; ability to apply on real-life projects and develop effective relationships with Finance and Reporting colleagues
• A track record of effective knowledge management and learning at project level, to support continuous improvement
• A developing understanding of how to manage external suppliers and end-to-end procurement processes
• Experience of working in simple and more complex (e.g. hybrid) project teams of internal/contractor resources
• Experience from the aviation and/or logistics sectors would be a bonus but is not essential; experience of working on complex IT projects and fast-paced, changeable environments with new technology/product highly desirable.
• Proficient in MS Office and comfort in using Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project to enable day-to-day project delivery requirements

We’ll treat you right

As well as a competitive salary, bonus, we offer a range of benefits to support our colleagues, which include:

• A hybrid environment with 3 days a week in the office and two from home.
• From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
• Flexible bank holiday policy- Individuals not on shift have the flexibility to swap the statutory public holidays, with the days you choose to take off instead.
• All our colleagues get access to LinkedIn learning and Rosetta Stone Language courses
• For health and wellbeing we offer a free onsite gym facility as well as access to the UNMIND app and a community of Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to discounts on Apple, Cinema tickets and loads of other goodies through Perks at work

Diversity and Inclusion

Our recruitment procedures positively support our diversity and inclusion agenda. All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently, and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.