Project Manager - Business Systems

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for an IT PMO Business Systems Project Manager to join the Project Management Office team.

Buro Happold is currently going through a period of strategic growth. This growth has resulted in an increased demand within the IT and Business Services Team, as we support BAU and drive forward with improvement initiatives.

As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.

As part of our strategic growth and succession planning, this new role will increase our capacity to manage a growing portfolio of business systems projects. You’ll work closely with the IT PMO Manager and mentor Project Coordinators, playing a key role in delivering critical systems that support our global operations.

You’ll report directly to the IT PMO Manager and be a vital part of a collaborative and supportive team. Your leadership will help shape the future of our IT project delivery.

Required Skills

• Experience leading the successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects
• PMO management experience or project management experience interacting with a PMO and the confidence to perform a PMO management role.
• Excellent communicator who can talk with specialists and distil important aspects from technical information for different audiences.
• Strong organisational skills including planning and resource management.
• Leadership and mentoring skills to take others on the journey.

Desirable Skills

• Hands-on experience with project management tools is desirable
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control

Qualifications and Accreditations:

• A Project management qualification PMP / PRINCE2 / PMI or Agile certification is a plus but is not required.

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, car allowance, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Craving a more extraordinary everyday?

Apply today and be where exceptional is everywhere.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.