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Bristol, Bristol
Digital Technologies - Technology Programme Manager
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Contract Type: Permanent |
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Overview
Company Our client is recognised as one of the global market leaders within industrial innovation, working in collaboration with some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies to push the boundaries of world-class engineering design and development. Utilising cutting edge technologies and specialist expertise, our client develops and implements composite manufacturing technologies and systems to build complex prototypes and validate design concepts. This allows companies of all sizes to strip away the risks of innovation and make investment decisions when confident an idea can be scaled up to deliver on a commercial scale. To build on the organisation’s success and to remain as a global leader in industrial innovation, our client has committed to a significant investment programme in order to build a new business unit to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, process and skills to enable engineering of ever more complex products, more quickly and at lower-cost. This new business unit will be a global leader in engineering excellence and act as the catalyst for the development and validation of enhanced digital technologies such as 5G, the internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, cyber security and advanced visualisation technologies to create innovative engineering solutions of the future. The incoming Technology Programme Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of a portfolio of projects that deliver novel technologies in existing market sectors. They will be accountable for the effective utilisation of allocated resources across multiple disciplines to deliver project outcomes. In addition, the TPM is expected to work with the wider PM team to balance priorities into the capability teams to enable optimal loading of work. In fulfilling project objectives, the TPM will be expected to develop existing customer relationships to offer new and further development opportunities that meet the strategic objectives of the Digital Engineering business unit and those of Delivery Partners, all the while matching these objectives with customer technology development strategies and market opportunities Responsibilities Accountable for successfully managing multiple Digital Engineering projects through the phases of a project lifecycle: initiation, requirements capture, planning, execution and closure Ensure robust project disciplines are in place, including - maintaining a balanced portfolio or risks and opportunities, implementing effective change control, project reporting, customer & stakeholder communication Manage project complexity and novelty to provide customer solutions that balance the customer expectations with Digital Engineering capability, ensuring a win-win result is achieved Actively engage in the development of project management tools & techniques Ensure all projects adhere to quality, health and safety processes and actively promote a positive H&S culture within the team Ensure robust quarterly forecasting is in place for all existing and pipeline Digital Engineering projects Improve the business unit’s profitability through effective resource utilisation Based on analysis and review of performance identify any business improvement activities that would contribute to the overall success of the Digital Engineering business unit operational performance Skills and Competencies Required Engineering Degree or equivalent industrial experience Knowledge of Digital Technologies, its development and application across multiple sectors Strong knowledge and experience of engineering processes Proven direct line-management experience of multi-functional teams. Significant and demonstrable experience in developing and delivering market growth, sales and new business plans Strong customer relationship management skills Management of research and development project