Global Delivery Manager – Construction

Global Delivery Manager – Construction
£ 56,430- £66,963 plus £1,750 location allowance and excellent benefits
Full time and based at Hanslope Park near Milton Keynes or Whitehall, London, with occasional overseas travel. Free shuttle bus available between central Milton Keynes and Hanslope Park.

An innovative leader and brilliant programme or project manager, you’ll have worked with a
range of contractors and consultants to deliver estate improvements through safe, compliant and value for money construction. You’ve also got great people skills to influence a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders to deliver results. But now you want to apply your skills on the global stage to help us enhance a diverse estate and develop your career into something that has more impact and importance. You want to do your job, but bigger.

Look no further, because we’ve got the ideal opportunity for you, one that will allow you to use all your attributes and take you to the next level of professional success. As a trusted government partner, we work on a diverse range of projects and help protect he UK’s interests around the world. We design, build, and maintain secure buildings for government use. Now we’re looking for a highly motivated and committed Global Delivery Manager to join our Regional Services Business Group to programme manage our ongoing investment to improve the condition of our overseas estate.

Make a real difference to the success of the UK’s overseas missions
When you join us in this important role you’ll be pivotal to the success of our Programme to deliver impact through Regional Services Project Delivery Goals. Key tasks will include drawing on all your construction and project management subject matter expertise as you exude credibility to bring people together and build capability and great stakeholder relationships to deliver tangible results. You’ll be making a real difference to the UK’s overseas interests as you make buildings safer for our diplomatic staff, work that is complex,
challenging and highly rewarding.

Manage and coach your team as you encourage innovation and increase efficiencies Key to your success will be your ability to encourage innovation and a culture of continuous improvement as you drive excellence and provide highly visible, positive leadership for your geographically dispersed team of project professionals. Always ready to support staff at all levels and manage the risks, opportunities, dependencies and issues we face, we’ll expect
you to develop and coach your colleagues in the principles and techniques of successful project and construction management.

You’ll also identify ways to increase efficiency and reduce costs, ensure projects are delivered in line with our governance framework, and assure our customers that we can meet their needs successfully. Use all your knowledge and expertise as you help to defend and protect our nation An inspirational team and programme leader with superb communication and interpersonal abilities, you’ll possess well developed stakeholder management skills and plenty of project delivery experience. When it comes to qualifications, we’ll expect you to hold either

PRINCE2, APM PMQ, or MSP Practitioner, and possess practical experience of applied project management methodologies relating to the design, development and implementation of multi-disciplinary construction projects. You should be a member of the RICS, CIOB, CIWFM or an equivalent professional organisation, and in addition to relevant Health and Safety knowledge, you’ll have good IT skills including experience of data analysis and of using MS Project or an equivalent project planning tool. Grow your career in the biggest way possible
When you join us, you’ll be contributing to protecting the nation’s interests at home and overseas – but how will we help you in return? As well as a competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement and a Civil Service pension, we’ll also support your development with training opportunities to help you advance your career with us.

our offices have an on-site gym, nursery, canteen, and we offer interest-free loans on season tickets and bikes to help you get there. It’s a superb package of benefits as you help to increase the safety and security of our buildings and staff around the world. All our employees have to be security cleared before being appointed, so you’ll need to undergo a vetting process if successful in your application. You can find out more about vetting on our careers website.