Senior Project Manager - Agile/Hybrid Working 18 Month FTC

Founded in 1909, Marshall employs over 2,000 colleagues across the UK, North America, Northern Europe and the UAE. Headquartered on a 900-acre site in Cambridge, Marshall comprises a number of different business units - Military Aerospace, Land Systems, Advanced Composites, Fleet Solutions, Property, and Marshall Centre.

As an independent private company, Marshall seeks to develop and deliver long-term value to its customers, whilst remaining committed to enhancing the communities in which it operates and creating exciting opportunities for its people.

We have ambitions to develop our world-leading presence further. So if you want to be part of an organisation where people really matter, this could be the opportunity for you to get involved and make your mark.

Our Smart/Agile working project is a project that is sponsored by our CEO to ensure our business is fit for purpose in a changing world, today but also in the future. We, as a business, recognise that how we work and how our customers want us to work is changing. We need to ensure our process, how we look after our people and how we do business evolve with those changes. Smart/Agile working is key in this, looking at our people, our IT/Technology and our facilities to ensure we are fit for purpose, improving our customer and employee experience, reducing cost and enabling us for business readiness.

As our project lead, you will take this project from where it is today to the next phase where we start to pilot new ways of working and processes that will lead us into full implementation which we anticipate will last for the next 18 months – 2yrs. This role will take over from an internal secondment who has led the project up to now and will drive it forward into the next phases.

Key focus areas include:

• Evolution of the Smart Working concepts developed to date by the team.
• Programme management of work streams in the project team to deliver Smart Working.
• Leadership of the Smart Working team and influencing senior leaders regarding the opportunities presented through SW.
• Working with stakeholders to understand requirements, key risks/concerns, planned activities that may impact the project, unplanned activities that need to be budgeted.
• Budget, plan & business case development.
• Keep Steer Co and Marshall Executive Team engaged with the programme, regularly updating using data in your reporting.
• Ensuring the delivery timetables are met within each business unit.
• Co-ordination with other functions as required such as Facilities, People Function, Business Information Systems.
• Update and maintain project plans for Smart Working implementation
• Reporting of risks, issues and blockers.
• Work closely with the business to identify opportunities, deal with objections and promote collaboration across the business.

Change Management

• Identify and create drivers for the change along with communication, facilitation and training of managers and employees to embed.

People Management 

• Lead a small project team and pull on other parts of the business as required.
• Identify replacements or growth of the team as Smart Working develops (team seconded from other parts of the business).

As an experienced project lead, you will have a proven background in project delivery, ideally within the Business Transformation space. You will be able to liaise with all levels across the business, be an analytical thinker and use data to back and challenge the business. You will have exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills, able to influence and inspire as well as being passionate about business change, Agile working process and forward thinking with an open mindset in how business will look, operate and feel in the future.

You skill set will include:

• Strong influencing capability
• People management experience (small team)
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Project Management skills.
• Effective data management, setting up metrics and implementing systems to capture relevant measures.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of Agile or Smart working and be an advocate for it

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained, attainment of either a SC (Security Check), Disclosure Scotland Criminal Record Check or Foreign Police Check (whichever is applicable depending on duration of UK residency) and, as applicable, a medical assessment. Access to US technical data by employees requires prior Trade Control function approval. Clearance must be carried out against all applicable US export control authorisations.