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Programme Delivery Manager
September 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Programme Delivery Manager
Location: Birmingham or Exeter - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office
Contract: Permanent Fulltime
Salary: £40k - £60k
Responsibilities
As a Programme Delivery Manager, you'll be working within the GIS Business team, supporting them to manage the successful delivery of all Development Projects working alongside the GIS Consulting manager to build the GIS project portfolio. As a programme manager you're responsible not only for seeing the project through to a successful completion, but you're going to need experience leading and motivating a team to achieve that goal.
Your day to day will include:
- Setup and manage project meetings and ensure teams are delivering to required timescales, management of key project stakeholders. (incl. identifying, engaging and comms plans) and the management of project risk.
- Management of time, cost, quality, and safe delivery of the programme to achieve the projects objectives.
- Assist with ongoing and cyclic projects to ensure compliance and continued service delivery
This role of Programme Delivery Manager is great for you if have:
- Knowledge of IT project management and delivery within a Dev Ops environment
- Experience of creating project schedules to enable everyone involved to achieve the common goal
- High level of IT competency, experience with all Microsoft Office packages
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits at Kier
- We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more - A fantastic, matched pension scheme
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 24 October 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Key Skills and Qualifications:
- A post-graduate business or project management qualification would be beneficial.
- A track record in project & programme management. Able to demonstrate ability to deliver projects to meet both commercial and technical objectives.
- Motivation and drive.
- Ability to analyse data and make decisions on partial information.
- Excellent communication skills. Strong inter-personal skills. Commercial awareness. Influencing/negotiating skills.
- Good project planning, estimating and financial forecasting skills.
- Fully competent at using the appropriate Company IT systems and Office software
- Proven ability to manage others.
Kier Group plc. is a leading construction, property, residential and services group which invests in, builds, maintains and renews the places where we work, live and play. We operate globally across a range of sectors including defence, education, health, housing, industrials, power, transport and utilities. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, we are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
With a network of 88 UK offices Kier offers national coverage across all of its core activities. Employing 22,000 people, Kier has the financial strength and technical expertise to undertake some of the most significant construction, civil engineering and service contracts in the country.
Kier is an equality and diversity employer