Senior Project Manager (Programme Operating Model Lead)

Senior Project Manager (Programme Operating Model Lead)

Essex, Kent or London 

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working  

Do you want to take a leading role on a major infrastructure project? Can you manage delivery integration? Are you an experienced Project Manager? Then, read on. This could be the perfect opportunity for you.  

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow   

To ensures structures, roles, interfaces, and governance are clear we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us. Working on a major joint venture, you’ll manage the programme’s operating model, delivery partner integration, and centralised interface management.

Your key responsibilities will be:  

• Develop and maintain the Operating Model, ensuring it is clear and well-documented
• Manage Delivery Partner Integration, ensuring alignment to collaborative working expectations

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. 

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. 

On top of that, you’ll have:  

• An engineering degree or Project management degree
• Possess Chartered status or APM, MSP, PMQ (or equivalent)
• Previous experience leading teams to manage projects in the infrastructure sector
• Experience designing or managing Operating Models, governance structures, or organisational frameworks.
• Experience in interface management and cross‑functional alignment.

A place to work and so much more 
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.   

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. 

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer: 
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.  

Some of our benefits include:  

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays 
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities 
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents 
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions 
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions 
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange 
• Life assurance 
• Cycle-to-work scheme 
• Corporate gym membership   
    
  
  

Got more questions? 

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder

Equal opportunity employer. 
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

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