Principal Technical Project Manager

at  Rowden

KEY SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOURS

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who actively invests in their technical skills and abilities. You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:

• Held leadership positions on multi-year, multimillion-pound projects.
• Demonstrated end-to-end leadership of projects.
• Experience in a regulated environment, preferably in the Defence sector.
• Been customer facing and can navigate your way through a complex set of stakeholders.
• Experience of and proficient in initiating and planning projects, considering the unique challenges of complex engineering systems within a regulated environment.
• Proven success in leading and managing large teams of 20+ multidisciplinary professionals.
• A technical background with a solid understanding of systems engineering, product development and engineering lifecycles.
• Experience working with supply chain functions, preferably working closely with those procuring hardware.
• Experience with executive level communication and presentations.
• Experience in proactively identifying and planning for project risks, mitigation planning and escalation.
• Strong analytical thinking skills, demonstrated through the development of compelling and persuasive business cases.
• Competence in Jira, Microsoft Project, Excel, and task tracking software.

PROJECT ACCOUNTABILITY AND STRATEGIC SUPPORT:

• Providing technical project management for land networks systems integration projects, ensuring they are on time, to budget, whilst keeping our end users at the forefront of our decisions.
• Acting as the day-to-day leader of the project (alongside the Technical Lead), with our internal team, execs, partners, and customers. You will also provide support to the General Manager in strategic customer meetings.
• You support the General Manager in the strategic planning and direction of the Operating Unit.
• You support the General Manager in their day-to-day responsibilities, attending key forums and communication sessions to build and maintain capacity.
• We’re scaling and growing fast. Whilst being the project leader, you will be required to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in amongst it. We are not looking for High level Programme Management for this role. This is first and foremost a project management role.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who actively invests in their technical skills and abilities. You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:

• Held leadership positions on multi-year, multimillion-pound projects.
• Demonstrated end-to-end leadership of projects.
• Experience in a regulated environment, preferably in the Defence sector.
• Been customer facing and can navigate your way through a complex set of stakeholders.
• Experience of and proficient in initiating and planning projects, considering the unique challenges of complex engineering systems within a regulated environment.
• Proven success in leading and managing large teams of 20+ multidisciplinary professionals.
• A technical background with a solid understanding of systems engineering, product development and engineering lifecycles.
• Experience working with supply chain functions, preferably working closely with those procuring hardware.
• Experience with executive level communication and presentations.
• Experience in proactively identifying and planning for project risks, mitigation planning and escalation.
• Strong analytical thinking skills, demonstrated through the development of compelling and persuasive business cases.
• Competence in Jira, Microsoft Project, Excel, and task tracking software

The ideal candidate will have a strong balance of technical skills and experience, and the behavioral competencies that we believe are key to success in the role are as follows:

• You will be a critical analyst. You will scrutinise the information you receive and ask the necessary questions to ensure that you fully understand the impact.
• You will take initiative and will be able to make decisions under pressure by asking the right questions upfront.
• You will play well with others and exhibit strong interpersonal skills.
• You will cope with uncertainty. Ideally, you’ll have demonstratable experience developing and delivering initiatives within an SME/Scaleup.
• You will be humble; you’ll be open with the team where you are not an expert and ask for help and advice.
• You’ll be tenacious and hungry, and able to bounce back from project setbacks.
• You’ll be obsessed with attention to detail, focussing yourself and your project teams on quality standards