Business & Project Management Partner

We are recruiting for a Business & Project Management Partner for a leading Aerospace organisation based in Filton, This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week on site, 2 days WFH.

We are looking for looking for someone interested in a project controlling role with some business / project improvement.

Working alongside our engineering community, together we deliver operational management solutions for project & performance management, resource management and people development to enable the Landing Gear engineering domain to deliver commitments across all Commercial Programmes, as part of the Systems Centre of Competence.

As a Business & Project Management Partner, you will be welcomed into a diverse and dynamic team and operationally deployed to one of our engineering functional teams.

Your tasks will include:

• Assuring that business and project management processes are followed within the engineering functional team.
• Support the engineering functional team to maintain a credible annual + multi year workload, resource management and financial plan that align with internal / external customer requirements. Monitoring and controlling any deviation to the plan.
• Assuring that internal resourcing and external engineering resource supplier activities are launched in line with the plan and managed in full compliance with company policies and processes.
• Promoting a mindset of anticipation to identify and act on potential risks, opportunities and workload evolution.
• Proactively managing the collation & reporting of key performance indicators to ensure that the 1YL business management data is readily available for effective performance management.
• Providing guidance and mentoring to our engineering community on business and project management.
• Deputising for Engineering functional leaders in governance reviews on financial, resourcing and performance topics.
• Onboarding and mentoring new members of the Business & Project Management support team.
• Supporting the implementation of Business / Project Management best practices and new ways of working, enabling a culture of continuous improvement and harmonisation across our engineering teams.

As a member of our team we are looking for a person who is:

• Experienced in Business Management and/or Project Management.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Customer focused and able to engage, inspire and manage multiple stakeholders with enthusiasm and energy.
• Good analytical skills and knowledge of digital tools
• Agile and flexible in their approach and able to work autonomously
• Curious and innovative with a willingness to challenge the norm and learn / continuously improve.

This is an umbrella contract, the role is inside IR35.