Senior Project Manager

Vaillant Group UK; Belper CP; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Generous pension scheme

Death in service benefit

Private health care

Well-being programme

Eye test vouchers

Job summary

Vaillant Group U.K. Ltd in Belper, United Kingdom, is seeking a senior Project/Programme Manager to own and deliver the transformation portfolio.

You will direct project delivery from entry to closure, align leadership on risk mitigation, and ensure resources, budgets and timelines meet business objectives. The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and expertise in project practices with knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Previous Project and Programme management experience in a senior role.
• Strong leadership, organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Expertise in project practices.
• Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Project certification (APM/Prince2) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage the project delivery process from entry to closure.
• Own the VGUK transformation project portfolio, ensuring timelines, resources, budgets, and risks are managed.
• Lead programme and transformation work streams delivering to wider timelines and strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Agile & Waterfall

Prioritisation

Job description

Company: Vaillant Group U.K. Ltd Location: Belper-GBR Country: United Kingdom (GB) Brand: Vaillant
Contract type: Permanent Working time: Full-time

What We Achieve Together

• The successful applicant will be responsible for directly managing the project delivery process from entry to closure along with leadership alignment on global project risk and mitigation recommendations.
• You will manage and own the entire VGUK transformation project portfolio, ensuring projects are run to agreed timelines, resources are managed, budgets are secured, and risk and identified and mitigated.
• Take ownership and delivery of programme and transformation work streams, ensuring projects under your programme are resourced and delivering to the wider programme timelines and strategy, ensuring escalation procedures are followed to deliver as agreed the wider programme timeline.
• Directly lead strategic projects, deployed to ensure the larger projects involved in the strategic portfolio are set-up, scoped, resourced and delivered to business needed objectives and timelines.
• Deputise for the PMO Manager in reporting, steering meetings and implementation of PMO best practice and VGUK project standardisation evolution.

What Makes Us Successful Together

• Previous Project and Programme management experience in a senior role is essential for all applicants.
• You should have strong leadership, organisational and communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast passed environment is important.
• Expertise in project practices are required.
• Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies is required.
• Project certification (APM/Prince2) is desirable.

What You Can Count On

• We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and bonus opportunities.
• We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
• For our employee’s peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit and the option of subsidised private health care.
• We care about our employees and offer a well-being programme that includes 24/7 remote GP appointments, mental health consultations and 1-2-1 lifestyle coaching.
• We are in the 7% of UK businesses that have received the Gold award from Investors in People (IiP)
• The health of our employees is important, we provide free eye test vouchers, Health MOT’s, NHS Health checks and flu vaccinations to all.

What Makes Us Special

We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy‑saving solutions.
You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate.
Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating!
We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.

Your Contact:

Amanda Smith
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