Project Manager

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Lower Blandford St Mary; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working and Flexi Hours

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Discounted Shopping Vouchers

25 days Annual leave + Bank Holidays

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Project Manager to lead internal and customer development projects, with strong bid management exposure. You will ensure delivery to budget and timescales, crafting detailed project plans and coordinating across departments.

Responsibilities include bid preparation, resource estimation, progress tracking, and reporting. You will support financial controls and invoicing while benefiting from hybrid working and flexi hours.

Qualifications

• Bid management experience or exposure to bid management.
• Delivery of projects on time and within budget.
• Attention to detail in project delivery and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Act as Bid Manager for customer bids and assist in creating quotation documents and costed project models.
• Prepare and present quotation and bid documents with costed project models to senior management for review and approval.
• Provide an initial schedule with bid resource estimates to functional heads for accurate low-level schedules.
• Project manage allocated projects to meet time and budget expectations.
• Create a Project Plan with task breakdown, schedule and budget.
• Coordinate with lines of business to ensure data accuracy in the Project Plan and smooth Sales-to-Projects handover.
• Request internal and external resources to achieve project tasks.
• Track progress against the Project Plan, Schedule and Budget and update as required.
• Obtain formal approval for any negative variance to revenue, profit or schedule.
• Identify project slippages and develop recovery strategies to meet planned events.
• Keep stakeholders informed of changes to timescales and remedial actions.
• Assist the Financial Controller with financial instruments and timely invoicing against milestones.

Skills

MS Office

Project scheduling

Bid management

Analytical skills

Cyber security awareness

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Project Manager

The role of the Project Manager within the company will be to deliver and manage internal and customer development projects. The role will also require the applicant to have strong bid management experience or have had exposure to an aspect of bid management. A keen eye for detail in the delivery of projects in the time frames required and inline with budgets is a key requirement for this position.

Roles and Responsibilities

• To act as Bid Manager for Customer bids and to assist in the creation of a fully developed quotation document and fully costed project model
• To prepare and present quotation and bid documents, together with costed project models to senior management for review and approval
• To provide an initial schedule with bid resource estimates to functional heads to enable them to provide accurate, agreed low level schedules in return
• To project manage allocated projects to time and budget expectations
• To create a Project Plan including task breakdown, schedule and budget
• To liaise with the all lines of business to ensure accuracy of the data in the Project Plan and to achieve a smooth transition from Sales to Projects
• To request internal and external resources as necessary in order to achieve tasks identified as part of a project
• To measure progress against the Project Plan, Schedule and Budget to update as required.
• To obtain formal approval within agreed project criteria for any negative variance to project revenue, profit or schedule
• To identify project slippages and to develop recovery strategies to allow the planned events to be achieved
• To keep all stakeholders aware of any changes to the project timescale and to agree remedial actions
• Assist the Financial Controller in the management of financial instruments and the timely issue of invoices against agreed project milestones

Skills

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of tools; Outlook, Word and Excel in particular
• Proficient with Microsoft Project or a similar project scheduling software application
• Technical information gathering and analysis skills
• Strong PC literacy, good overall ICT skills and appreciation of common hardware and software products
• Internet proficient and cyber security aware

Benefits

• 25 days Annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted Shopping Vouchers
• Hybrid Working and Flexi Hours.