Mobilisation Project Manager

Job Reference: GRP/AM/23-05/1183/1

Job Title: Mobilisation Project Manager

Location: Ipswich

Salary: Competitive

Hours per week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 40 hours per week

Business Overview

Atalian Servest and OCS have merged to create a new organisation, the OCS Group UK & Ireland. We are a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services. The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.

Role Overview

We are currently recruiting for a Mobilisation Project Manager to join our passionate and driven team based at our Ipswich office.

Benefits

• Informal hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Free fruit in our offices
• Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
• Wide range of retail discounts
• Regular social and charity events are held in our offices
• Get involved in charity events in the local community

Wellbeing

• Discounted gym membership
• Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
• Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
• Access to “CHROMA”, our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
• Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders

Career development and recognition

• Immediate access to “Opportunity” our internal Learning and Development platform
• Required professional membership fees paid for
• Opportunity to win monthly Superstar Awards
• Long service awards

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Head of Projects and Mobilisation and the wider Mobilisation team in the delivery of objectives and goals
• Overseeing the full mobilisation and transition process, including initiating kick-off meetings; facilitating the governance process; managing change & Mobilisation Project plan, risk and issue log, actions log, project meetings, and producing regular progress reports; managing mobilisation budget;
• Coordinating all internal and external client and end-user communications; managing projects to meet objectives to time, quality and cost; delivering projects to agreed methodologies and standards; coordinating all client and end-user communications; maintaining all project documentation
• Highlighting and actively engaging all project stakeholders and maintaining close and ongoing relationships with key stakeholders throughout the life of the projects
• Building and maintaining RAID’s logs (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) prioritising and building mitigation plans to minimise impact, and escalating business critical issues in a timely manner
• Responsibility for quality management of Mobilisation Project deliverables
• Highlighting any breaches of tolerances and taking migrating action to rectify
• Maintaining project reporting and providing highlight reports when requested
• Undertaking lessons learnt sessions upon project closure and factoring in learning to drive continuous improvement processes
• Maintaining up-to-date awareness and compliance in respect of business continuity plans and Health and Safety regulations

About You:

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
• Qualified to APM or Prince 2 Practitioner level, or equivalent
• Qualified to Change Master practitioner level or equivalent
• Comprehensive experience in change management with knowledge of Project Management Methodologies
• A proven track record in leading successful single, bundled service & integrated FM mobilisation and transition programmes
• Proven experience working within a project or change environment managing complex transformation programmes
• Proven experience in creating robust business cases including cost/benefit analysis
• Demonstrable portfolio/project governance expertise; financial management and reporting
• Experience in project and programme reporting; managing risk, issues and dependencies and building mitigation plans
• A background working within operational Facilities Management is essential

How to apply

If you are interested to join a business that encourages professional development, career progression and the chance to work with inspirational people then please click apply!

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