Senior Project Manager

Overview

Role: Senior Project Manager

Location: UK Flexible

Salary: £35,000 - £52,000

Role ID**:** 2023-2017

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of projects and advisory programmes within the agriculture team. You will be a key part of the project management team, a collaborative peer group of experienced Project Managers who bring high quality, robust and insightful leadership to projects for new and existing clients. The team also provide mentorship of junior colleagues seeking to increase their experience of project management in a consultancy setting.

We are looking for a candidate with knowledge and appreciation of agriculture alongside project management experience. We also welcome applications from experienced project managers with experience managing consultancy projects in other sectors with the right multidisciplinary skills.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Key competencies and experience

• Proven experience in project management, ideally within consultancy and/or the environmental sector.
• Outstanding, planning, organisation, delegation, and communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills, and the ability to form and maintain focused project teams within a matrix resourcing structure.
• A track record of delivering projects to time and budget and clear examples of problem solving and resolving challenges along the way.
• Experience of managing senior external stakeholders and large project teams.

Skills and behaviours

• Be a team player able to work with and influence a wide range of stakeholders both inside and outside of the organisation.
• Be comfortable working on a variety of tasks and different projects in a fast-paced consultancy environment, with high levels of attention to detail.
• Develop sufficient knowledge of the project processes within our consultancy business to be able to propose and implement operational improvements in these areas.
• Be a leader, team worker who is willing and able to get involved in supporting colleagues on a range of project management and co-ordination tasks as required.

Desirable Skills

• A project management qualification e.g., PRINCE 2, APM.
• Experience in a consultancy or in a customer facing commercial environment.
• Good understanding of agricultural and environmental policy and the wider food system.
• Good knowledge of the farming systems and the interactions between agricultural production and the environment, particularly, GHG, Air Quality, Water and Soil.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.