Package Description
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary
- Remote Working
- Corporate Benefits Package
- And the chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team
Job Introduction
In Europe, we work closely with our customers to deliver custom-made and specialized services across International Organizations, Space, Immigration, and Defence. We provide tailored services for various public sector bodies including European Institutions, the Belgian and German Defence, the European Space Agency, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Our expertise spans IT services, Facility Management, Space Research, and Operations.
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to strengthen our teams across our European offices!
We look forward to meeting you!
Main Responsibilities
As Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for:
- Quality, Risk and Deliverables/Products/Benefits.
- Engage stakeholders such as users, managers, IT specialists, SME’s, architects, or suppliers to deliver project outputs.
- Mobilise and lead teams composed of a mixture of staff and suppliers across organisational and geographical boundaries. You ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity, and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
- Proactively manage variances and changes on scope, time, cost, and quality.
- Identify risks and take appropriate mitigating actions.
- Align expectations across your stakeholders and facilitate decision-making in a timely and effective manner.
- Timely report on the status of your projects, whether detailed or managerial, business or IT.
- Understand and apply the right collaboration methods considering project and business constraints.
- Proactively identify dependencies and synergies with other initiatives and projects
Successful Candidate
Knowledge
- Knowledge of project and programme management methodologies / approaches and their application in a complex business
- Knowledge of project governance and assurance and its interrelationship with programme and portfolio governance
- Knowledge of different business functions/ disciplines (i.e. finance and commercial, operations, safety, risk, HR, operational excellence, IT, sales, marketing and communications) and comfortable working in a complex environment
- Advanced MS Office Skills, including Project (Project Online), Word, Visio, Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience
- Strong IT and business experience with significant experience establishing and delivering larger, more complex projects.
- Experience of Payroll integration projects preferred.
- Comfortable with all aspects of project management. Proven track record.
- Structured, self-starting and mature on stakeholder management up to C-Level.
- Strong affinity with IT technology in one or more areas
- Familiar with managing external partners and suppliers.
- Team player and a good communicator.
- Strong negotiator.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Resourceful, able to anticipate on unforeseen situations and build contingency plans.
- Experience of collaboration, influencing, communication and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience of working in a high-pressure environment and managing multiple demands at once
- Ability to drive clarity from ambiguity
Education
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience)
- Project Management qualification / certification (e.g. APM, PRINCE2, PMI etc)
About the Company
About Serco Group
Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Space, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at Serco | Europe.
Why Should You Join Serco ?
- Contribute to innovative projects in the public services sector, and making a difference.
- Your contributions are valued and recognized, with opportunities for professional/personal growth.
- Be part of a company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Enjoy a friendly and professional environment that respects your work-life balance.
We are diverse and inclusive organisation
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to supporting the needs of all our colleagues. It’s a mix of people from different backgrounds, experiences and opinion that keeps our culture strong and vibrant.
We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.
In the UK we are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader in the government’s scheme and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard; in Belgium we are partner of Diversicom and member of Charter der Vielfalt in Germany.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to The Serco Europe Recruitment Team
Important
Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.
Please contact the recruitment team if needed
Data Protection:
For more information on how the personal data is processed, please see the link Data Protection policy here.
