Project Manager (12 months Maternity Cover)
Project Manager - Full Time - Salary £41,659 to 49,010 (experience dependent) - Hybrid Working.
Our growing Project Management team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric project management capability.
Join us and you'll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver greater effectiveness and real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they couldn't have done it without us. And to be central to OS's vision: To grow the market size by facilitating more destinations to our data.
About the role
As a Project Manager you will be joining a team responsible for supporting the business in managing change and delivering a broad portfolio of investment projects.
You will be involved in a wide variety of exciting projects, from developing and launching new products and services, to replacing the infrastructure that underpins some of our core data.
What we're looking for
If you are interested in joining a team that lies at the heart of what OS is about, we are looking for someone that can demonstrate skills and experience in
- Delivering projects to agreed time, cost and quality
- Managing software development projects preferably using Agile methodologies
- Effectively managing key stakeholders at all levels
- Project planning and budgeting skills
- Leading a culture of effective risk and issue management across the project
- Knowledge of project management tools and techniques
- Careful management of forecasts and actuals for project costs & resources
- Ensuring all project documentation is created and maintained in line with wider Portfolio governance and standards
- Experience in delivering continuous improvement initiatives
- Practitioner level qualification in Project Management (eg: Prince2, APM PMQ)
Desirable
- Experience working with Dynamics365 implementation
- Experience in delivering customer engagement or experience projects e.g. website re-platforms
The Rewards
We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees byclicking here
- Salary - £41,659 to 49,010 (dependent on experience)
- Performance related bonus up to 10%
- A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to ~12%)
- 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays (including 3 days Christmas shutdown), with an extra day's leave for each year worked up to 33 days
- Free subscription to our award-winning OS Maps app and wider employee discounts
- Support with continuous improvement with access to online learning platforms/e-books, and coaching / mentoring schemes
- Life Assurance cover
- Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits
At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working with opportunity to consider different working hours or location
- Annual volunteer day to support the local community and charities
- OS Explorers Nursery discount
- Parking at our modern Southampton HQ, or Cycle to Work scheme for active commuting
Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be required to spend 1 to 2 days a week with the remaining time being a personal choice as to whether you work from home, or spend more time at OSHQ.
Security: OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if further clearance will be required for this role.
Closing Date: Sunday 1 September 24
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.
We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.
We are looking for enthusiastic people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.
We're individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.