Details:
- Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Southam Warwickshire
- Date: 3 days ago
Description:
Job Description Programme Manager
Location: Southam, South Warwickshire
Salary: c£50k (Depending on experience)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent, onsite (37.5 hours per week)
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Programme Manager to join a growing engineering and technology business operating within the clean technology and sustainability sector.
Working closely with customers, suppliers and internal teams, you will take ownership of multiple customer programmes, ensuring successful delivery against cost, quality and timing objectives. This is a highly visible role requiring a confident and commercially minded individual who can build strong client relationships while driving programme performance.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as the primary point of contact for customer programmes.
* Lead programme delivery from initiation through to completion.
* Develop and manage programme schedules, milestones and deliverables.
* Coordinate activities across engineering, operations, finance and other business functions.
* Monitor programme performance and implement corrective actions where required.
* Produce monthly programme reports and lead customer programme reviews.
* Manage programme budgets, forecasts and expenditure.
* Maintain accurate EACs, cost tracking and financial controls.
* Manage programme scope, change requests and associated documentation.
* Maintain programme risk and opportunity registers.
* Lead issue resolution activities and implement mitigation plans.
* Ensure programme governance and delivery processes are followed.
* Produce dashboards and management reports for key stakeholders.
* Build strong customer relationships and confidently lead client meetings.
* Support, mentor and develop apprentices and junior team members.
* Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills & Experience Required
* Proven programme or project management experience within engineering, manufacturing, automotive, industrial energy, technology or a similar sector.
* Strong knowledge of programme and project management methodologies.
* Experience managing budgets, forecasting and financial reporting.
* Demonstrable stakeholder and customer management experience.
* Strong risk, change and opportunity management capability.
* Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to work independently within a fast-paced SME environment.
* Confident and resilient approach with the ability to challenge and address issues directly.
* Experience working within OEM and supplier environments.
Desirable
Knowledge of battery technology, electrification, recycling, circular economy or clean technology sectors.
Manufacturing or industrial automation experience.
PRINCE2, MSP, PMP or equivalent programme management qualification.
Personal Attributes
Commercially aware with strong business acumen.
Comfortable working in a dynamic and growing business.
Adaptable, resilient and capable of managing competing priorities.
Passionate about sustainability, innovation and clean technology.
**Please note you must have the full right to work in the UK both now, and in the future - there is no sponsorship available