Senior Project Manager

Dyson Institute; Malmesbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Bonus or commission

Free lunch on-site

On-site gym

Dyson discount codes

Cycle to work

EV scheme

Free Dyson bus service

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Malmesbury is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own the delivery of multiple digital and cross-channel projects across Business Units. You will ensure governance, budgets, and POs are managed while driving on-time, on-spec, and on-budget results.

You will partner with BU Marketing, Creative, Production and Digital Finance teams to align delivery with strategic goals, balancing stakeholders and ensuring smooth execution amidst a busy workload.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in mid-weight or senior project management.
• Strong ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Project Management of specific projects, including risk and issue management.
• Ensure BU teams follow ways of working and governance, including meeting cadence and status reporting.
• Responsible for project-specific budget, ensuring relevant POs are raised and released.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge - more categories, more locations and more people.

About the Team

Dyson Group Marketing is responsible for bringing this amazing technology to life for our markets, explaining how our machines are different and their benefits. Our mission is to bring Dyson technology to life, to provide the imagery, films, content, experiences and service that explain our machines, their benefits and the problems they solve for our Owners. We create assets and journeys that help Owners discover, choose, purchase, learn about and solve issues they may have with our machines. We also plan the Project teams, resource them with the right talent, run the PMO, structure the governance, report and prioritise projects.

The Role

The Senior Project Manager role works across all our demand and reports into our one of our BU Programme Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and ensuring delivery of projects across all our BUs. The successful candidate will ensure all projects within their remit follow our ways of working and governance, including meeting cadence, status reporting alongside issues and risk management. You will also work closely with the Finance team to track your project specific budget, ensure relevant POs are raised and released accordingly. The role takes full Project Management ownership of specific projects. The successful candidate will be critical in ensuring that their specific projects run on time, on spec, on quality and on budget.

Day to Day

Your role will be hands-on. You’ll liaise with key business, across BUs, Markets and CoEs. In the day to day your tasks will include:

• Project Management of specific projects, including risk and issue management.
• Ensuring our BU teams follow our ways of working and governance, including meeting cadence and status reporting.
• Responsible for project specific budget, ensuring relevant POs are raised and released accordingly.

You will be a key member of the Planning and PMO team and will need to work cross functionally to achieve the best results. You will work with the following teams.

• BUs All Group Marketing teams, including Creative, Production and Digital Finance Market teams.
• CRO Teams, including Media.

About You / What You’ll Need to Succeed

You will be a proven Mid-weight or Senior Project Manager with a background in digital & cross-channel project management or tech project management, or you will have demonstrable experience as an Account Manager with exceptional ability to manage multiple projects for a diverse range of clients. Strong proven capability to prioritise, manage process and solve complex problems. A positive and impactful communicator with excellent negotiation & influencing skills and the ability to 'bring people with you'. Comfortable speaking to both technical and non-technical teams and engaging at all levels of the business. Simplify the complex and make the impact of enhancements visible in business terms. Highly-organised with proven experience in project management with the ability to juggle multiple, complex projects at once. Calm, considered approach and be able to cope with a very busy workload. Ability to manage upwards in a timely and constructive manner.

Benefits

Financial Benefits

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Bonus or commission depending on role

Lifestyle Benefits

• 27 days of holiday (Buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave)
• Free lunch, hot drinks and fruit on-site
• Free on-site gym (Malmesbury)
• Free on-site hair salon (Malmesbury)
• Dyson discount codes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Free Dyson bus from Bristol, Bath, Chippenham and Swindon
• GymFlex and My Active discounts

Health Benefits

• Private medical insurance for all employees
• Private dental insurance (level dependant)
• Optical plan
• Free on-site GP, physiotherapists and mental health professionals (Malmesbury)
• Digital GP and prescription service
• Assisted fertility support
• Peppy app: fertility, birth and menopause support
• Employee Assistance Programme

Equal Opportunity Statement

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.