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Senior Business Project Manager

Vacancy Salary £55,000
Vacancy Location Milton Keynes
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This is a Fixed Term Contract, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We have an incredible opportunity for a Senior Business Project Manager to join us on a 2-year Fixed Term Contract. You'll work closely with business sponsors and stakeholders to guide project teams to success. From scoping to implementation, you'll ensure seamless collaboration between the business, IT, and Data teams.

 

What you’ll be doing 🌱📈

  • Steering transformative initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategy, budget, time, and quality targets.
  • Upholding change processes, governance, and reporting standards.
  • Overseeing projects from conception to integration.
  • Identifying and managing resources, defining roles, and securing necessary skills.
  • Collaborating with sponsors to develop business cases and benefit realisation plans.
  • Proactively managing project risks, escalating when needed.
  • Managing budgets and financial risks, following escalation procedures.
  • Defining current and future state processes with cross-functional teams.
  • Developing stakeholder communication plans for engagement.
  • Evaluating deliverables' success, ensuring smooth closure and transition.
  • Promoting continuous improvement through lessons learned.
  • Cultivating relationships for collaborative project execution.
  • Committing to professional development in housing and project management.

 

📢Please read the full job description attached before applying.

 

👀🔍We’re looking for someone with experience…

  • Managing projects targeting business change, transformation, and process improvement.
  • Prioritising tasks adeptly, always meeting project deadlines.
  • Leading teams effectively, ensuring successful project outcomes.
  • Managing stakeholders in complex, matrix environments.
  • Contributing proactively within teams, fostering positivity.
  • Managing and embedding change within organisations.
  • Handling project risks and issues effectively.
  • Defining and realising project benefits, delivering tangible value.

 

About you 👉⭐

  • Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
  • IT proficient – particularly Outlook, Teams, Word, Project, and Visio.
  • Effective under pressure, excelling in stakeholder relations.
  • Innovative thinker with attention to detail.
  • Flexible hours and agile approach.
  • Proficient in critical thinking and problem-solving.
  • Project & Change Management Qualifications (Prince 2, Agile, APM, MSP, or similar).
  • Ideally 5+ years of experience in a similar role.

 

🎉 Perks of working at Grand Union

🏝️ Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service

🏦 Generous pension scheme – employer contribution up to 10%.

🏥 Extra day's leave for no sickness absence in the financial year.

🎅 Christmas week off (no need to use your annual leave allowance!)

🌈 Opportunity to buy/sell annual leave.

👶 Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

🏥 Paid emergency and compassionate leave.

🌟 Life assurance (2x salary).

🤒 Generous sick pay.

💉 Free annual flu jabs.

📚 Paid qualification.

📜 Plus more – check out the full list of benefits in the attached document!

 

Ready to embark on this journey of transformation? Apply now and be part of something incredible! 🚀✨

 

🚨 Important Information🚨

 

🛂 We do not provide visa sponsorship; You must reside in the UK for the duration of your employment, be eligible to work in UK and provide Right to Work evidence.

 

🚫 We reserve the right to close the vacancy early in response to an overwhelming number of applications or a change in business priorities.

 

Closing: 21 May

Phone screening: 29 May

Interviews: 4 June

 

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At Grand Union, we know that what we do matters. We build more homes, stronger communities and better lives.

We’ve been in business for over 25 years and provide 12,500 homes for more than 27,000 people across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Hertfordshire. We’re an £86 million turnover social business with 400 staff.

Our mission is more homes, stronger communities, better lives. We build affordable homes, provide personal support, and help people to learn, work and be healthy.

We’re a financially stable and innovative not-for-profit organisation that believes in partnership and collaboration. We plan to build 1,959 more new homes in the coming years to play our part in ending the housing crisis.

We’re driven to do more. We empower staff to achieve more and help us evolve into a more efficient, flexible and ambitious organisation that has a positive impact on our customers and communities.

We deliver on our promises. We’re committed to making a difference to people’s lives and by acting with integrity, being open-minded and taking ownership, we can be trusted to do what we say we will.

We’re in it together. Our can-do attitude and collaborative approach help us achieve our goals and provide what our customers, colleagues and partners need from us.

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