Salary: £75,000 – £90,000 per annum

Type: Permanent

Location: London Gatwick Airport, West Sussex

Our client’s Aviation team are recruiting for a Lead Planning Manager (P6) for one of our key clients. This role will require you to be on site in Surrey 2-3 days per week.

Job Purpose:

· Operationally manage project or programme controls work to deliver defined objectives. · They are responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and process controls, and will have deep technical knowledge and broad business experience · Ability to select systems and tools appropriate for the work, develop and implement project-specific processes and procedures · Develop and grow the service capability, contribute to delivery of client account plans

Key Accountabilities:

· Oversee an agreed scope of work including the workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work · Work within established systems to independently produce schedules and cost plans and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to produce management information · Deliver a number of small to medium scale project or programme controls work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines · Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of project controls is compliant to standards · Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes

· Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making. · Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project controls processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations to improve processes and systems · Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure project/programme controls can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations · Advise senior management on issues relating to project controls, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies · Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

Dimensions of the job:

• Financial – working within set local budgets up to £100,000
• Client – engagement leading a project team and/or local client relationship
• Project – able to manage teams up to 20 people on projects up to £10m, or as part of a wider team on major projects or programmes >£10m ·
• People – technical coaching, task and line management for colleagues at Level 3-7

Knowledge & Experience:

• Relevant business experience across multiple sectors
• Management of small to medium sized project (AKA ‘core’ sized projects) and experience in major projects and programmes
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
• ‘Expert’ level expertise in service capability
• Knowledge of own community managed and an understanding of service and business lines
• Experience in managing business relationships at management level

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status