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About the Role

IAG Cargo is seeking a motivated individual to plan and deliver transformational projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes within scope, time, and budget. This role involves proactive risk management, stakeholder collaboration, and embedding change within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver transformational projects in alignment with internal controls, financial guidelines, and organizational priorities.
• Ensure high-quality project delivery within scope, time, and budget.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Use analysis and strong relationship-building skills to mitigate challenges and maximise success.
• Gather, analyse, and integrate proposals from multiple suppliers and stakeholders.
• Provide well-informed recommendations that drive optimal solutions and meet project objectives.
• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans outlining critical paths, risks, efficiencies, and opportunities for simplification or acceleration.
• Ensure project plans align with business goals.
• Maintain rigorous change management processes, facilitating trade-offs and adjustments as needed.
• Balance project constraints and priorities.
• Collaborate on resource planning and allocation, working closely with resource owners.
• Optimise the use of skills and capabilities across the organisation.
• Deliver clear and consistent communication to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure alignment, transparency, and buy-in throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Hold parties accountable for performance and ensure project milestones are met.
• Embed change into the organisation by creating and executing effective business change plans.
• Minimise disruption and enhance adoption of changes.
• Adhere to standardised project management principles, tools, and techniques.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in delivery methods and outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven project management and planning experience with a successful track record of managing change projects to cost, quality, and time.
• Experience of planning and delivering business change activities at a project level.
• Experience of owning and driving effective identification and mitigation of risks, issues, and dependencies on projects.
• Solid stakeholder management skills, with a focus on immediate project-level colleagues.
• Experience supporting senior management, operational staff, and external suppliers to achieve required outcomes.
• Experience of working within, or alongside, a Programme Management Office (PMO).
• Support effective governance, planning, and progress reporting.
• 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.
• Ability to apply budget management principles on real-life projects.
• Ability to develop effective relationships with Finance and Reporting colleagues.
• 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 of working in simple and more complex (e.g., hybrid) project teams of internal/contractor resources.
• Experience from the aviation and/or logistics sectors is a bonus but not essential.
• Experience of working on complex IT projects is highly desirable.
• Experience of working in fast-paced, changeable environments with new technology/product is highly desirable.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Comfort in using Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project to enable day-to-day project delivery requirements.

Skills

• Project management
• Project planning
• Risk management
• Issue management
• Dependency management
• Stakeholder management
• Relationship building
• Analysis
• Business case development
• Budget management
• Knowledge management
• Procurement processes
• MS Office
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• MS Project

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Proven project management experience
• Experience of planning and delivering business change activities
• Experience of owning and driving risk/issue/dependency identification and mitigation
• Solid stakeholder management skills
• Experience supporting senior management, operational staff, and external suppliers
• Experience working within or alongside a PMO
• Experience with business case development and approvals
• Financial literacy
• Experience managing external suppliers and procurement
• Experience working in project teams
• Experience in aviation and/or logistics sectors (bonus)
• Experience on complex IT projects (highly desirable)
• Experience in fast-paced, changeable environments (highly desirable)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Hybrid environment (3 days in office, 2 from home)
• 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
• Access to discounts on Apple
• Access to discounts on Cinema tickets
• Access to discounts through Perks at work

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).
• 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, 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.