About the Role
Plan and deliver transformational projects in alignment with internal controls, financial guidelines, and organisational priorities, ensuring high-quality delivery within scope, time, and budget. Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities, using analysis and strong relationship-building skills to mitigate challenges and maximise success. Gather, analyse, and integrate proposals from multiple suppliers and stakeholders, providing well-informed recommendations that drive optimal solutions and meet project objectives. Develop and manage comprehensive project plans that clearly outline critical paths, risks, efficiencies, and opportunities for simplification or acceleration, ensuring alignment with business goals. Maintain rigorous change management processes, facilitating trade-offs and adjustments as needed to balance project constraints and priorities. Collaborate on resource planning and allocation, working closely with resource owners to optimise the use of skills and capabilities across the organisation. Deliver clear and consistent communication to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment, transparency, and buy-in throughout the project lifecycle. Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders, holding parties accountable for performance and ensuring project milestones are met. Embed change into the organisation by creating and executing effective business change plans that minimise disruption and enhance adoption. Adhere to standardised project management principles, tools, and techniques, while contributing to continuous improvement in delivery methods and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver transformational projects within scope, time, and budget.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities.
- Gather, analyse, and integrate proposals from suppliers and stakeholders.
- Develop and manage comprehensive project plans.
- Maintain change management processes and facilitate trade-offs.
- Collaborate on resource planning and allocation.
- Communicate clearly and consistently with stakeholders.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Embed change into the organisation through effective business change plans.
- Adhere to standardised project management principles, tools, and techniques.
Requirements
- Proven project management and planning experience with a successful track record of managing change projects to cost, quality, and time.
- Experience planning and delivering business change activities at a project level.
- Experience owning and driving effective identification and mitigation of risks, issues, and dependencies on projects.
- Solid stakeholder management skills, including with senior management, operational staff, and external suppliers.
- Experience working within or alongside a Programme Management Office (PMO).
- Exposure to and understanding of end-to-end business case development and approvals process for projects in large, matrix-style organisations.
- Financially literate with an understanding of core budget management principles.
- A track record of effective knowledge management and learning at project level.
- A developing understanding of how to manage external suppliers and end-to-end procurement processes.
- Experience working in simple and complex project teams of internal/contractor resources.
- Experience of working on complex IT projects and fast-paced, changeable environments with new technology/product is highly desirable.
- Proficient in MS Office, including Excel, Powerpoint, and MS Project.
Skills
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Dependency Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Case Development
- Budget Management
- Knowledge Management
- Procurement Processes
- MS Office Suite
- Excel
- Powerpoint
- MS Project
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Proven experience
- Developing understanding
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive bonus
- Staff travel benefits (unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines)
- Up to 30 discounted 'Hotline' airfares per year for self, friends, and family
- Flexible bank holiday policy
- Access to LinkedIn learning
- Access to Rosetta Stone Language courses
- Free onsite gym facility
- Access to the UNMIND app
- Community of Mental Health First Aiders
- Discounts on Apple
- Discounts on Cinema tickets
- Perks at work discounts
About the Company
- IAG Cargo is one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations.
- We move cargo that positively impacts society worldwide.
- We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling).
- Powered by five airlines, our reach is truly global.
- We believe in keeping the world’s economies turning.
- We operate with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride.
- We are a globally recognised logistics business, that is Trusted to Deliver.
Equal Opportunity
- Our recruitment procedures positively support our diversity and inclusion agenda.
- All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently, and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.
