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Project Manager: Virgin Atlantic

Employer
Manor Royal Business District
Location
Crawley, West Sussex
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
1 Jul 2021

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Project Manager

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday

Location: Crawley, West Sussex - with flexible remote working days

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 1st July 2021

Many of our staff at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, including different core hours or remote working. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what's possible for the role.


In a nutshell

In this exciting role within Virgin Atlantic’s Transformation function you'll be accountable for the successful delivery of projects to time, cost and quality in a global environment adopting both Project Manager and Scrum Master ways of working. The projects that will be allocated will range from simple deployments to projects which are high value worth (up to £5m) and complexity, all of which will be expected to drive significant business benefit.

You'll define the deliverables and appropriate delivery approach to meet the agreed business benefits, understanding and supporting the required business change, and ensuring that the project produces the required deliverables to the agreed standard of quality and within the agreed constraints of cost, risk and time. You will be involved building and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders at various levels of the business, third party suppliers and other internal departments to ensure a successful delivery.


Day to day

- Using your agile toolkit you will create high performing, cohesive delivery teams that work alongside other Scrum teams.

- Produce well considered high level plans and milestones to articulate the outline scope of the project which demonstrates the strategic objectives of the project.

- Ensure that all project deliverables are agreed by the Epic Owner, Identifying the key dependencies within the project so that these are clearly shown as part of the product backlog.

- Working in conjunction with the Value Stream Lead establish measures that would be effective in articulating and measuring the business benefits of the successful project delivery.

- Support the Epic owner where needed in readiness for PI events or funding requests via course correction.

- Deliver the assigned project activity in an effective and inspired manner, ensuring team performance and delivery expectations are made clear to all those who will be involved and that features are delivered successfully as planned and within budget.

- Ensure the project delivery team are fully engaged within the project, understanding it’s aims and objectives and the role that they play within delivering against the requirements

- Identify key stakeholders at the start of the project lifecycle and create a stakeholder management plan which identifies how and when to engage the relevant parties including suppliers and technology teams.

- Variances to the agreed delivery and budget are identified and escalated to the appropriate stakeholders, both within the department and our business.

- Ensure the business area / department are effectively prepared for the changes being delivered and business processes are implemented/adjusted accordingly, and training delivered to facilitate successful delivery.

- Ensure projects are successfully transitioned into BAU support with appropriate artefacts being provided and framework governance adhered to.

- Management and control of the project finances by measuring and tracking against the allocated project budget, reconciling the spend versus budget on a monthly basis and as required showing actual spend, committed spend and estimate to completion.

- Take an active part in VAA’s Project Management Transformation practice in order to develop the Community and effectiveness of delivery in line with business requirements


About you

Are you an experienced Scrum Master with 3 or more years experience of working in an Iterative or Agile delivery environment? Do you have proven experience of end to end Project Management working within a clear Framework to cost and time? Then this could be the role for you.

Alongside the above we’re looking for the following to be successful in your application:

- Experience of controlling Project finances to tight budgets whilst working within a diverse and complex organisation

- Significant track record of successfully delivering high value worth Projects which have delivered the agreed business benefits

- Exceptional planning skills – being able to plan for multiple features, across multiple components, with multiple skill sets as well as being able to plan for increases or decreases in team capacity

- Substantial and demonstrable experience of management of third- party suppliers, including offshore services

- Experience of working effectively with a wide variety of people at all levels within an organisation

- Strong team player with the ability to work with a variety of professionals from different disciplines to successfully deliver Projects

If the above sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!


Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger

Virgin Atlantic are committed equal opportunities employers and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity. Diversity brings strength which is why we strive to provide an inclusive environment where individuality is celebrated, and we can ignite the potential of our forward-thinking mix of people.

Please be aware as part of our recruitment process we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role you have applied for. These may include application questions, video interviews or online testing. Please feel free to contact us at recruitment@fly.virgin.com if there are any reasonable adjustments to our process that you would like us to consider, for example use of hearing loops, sign language interpreter etc. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there are any issues preventing you from being at your best during your application or assessment process. Any issues raised after your assessment is completed or once a decision has been made will be too late for us to consider within our process.

You'll be assessed against our values for a selection of your interview process, learn more about them here: Our Values

Company

Manor Royal Business District is the biggest business park of the Gatwick Diamond area and one of the south east's premier mixed activity employment hubs.

Enviable location and connections

Situated at the heart of the Gatwick Diamond on the Sussex and Surrey county borders, just two miles from London Gatwick Airport, a major motorway junction (M23 Junctoion 10) and two mainline railway stations (Gatwick Airport and Three Bridges), Manor Royal is a popular choice for a diverse range of occupiers including a host of blue chip global brands.

Manor Royal in numbers

  • One of the biggest business parks in the South East.
  • Covers an area of 539 acres – that’s over 300 football pitches.
  • 700 properties
  • 500 businesses
  • 30,000 people

Manor Royal more than a number

Since the formation of the Manor Royal Business Group (MRBG), an association of Manor Royal based business and firms, being on Manor Royal means being part of something. You’re never just a number.

Manor Royal makes sense

Scale, diversity, location and great connectivity with a property offer to match means Manor Royal based firms are never far away from their suppliers, customers and a talented workforce.

Pay us a visit

Visit www.manorroyal.org to find out more and to get in touch

 

Company info
Website
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Manor Royal Business District
Location
7 Magellan Terrace (Ground Floor)
Gatwick Road
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 9PJ
United Kingdom

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