Role: Programme Manager

Location: Midlands/Shoreham by the Sea

 

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

 

Our Automotive & Industrial division has been a trusted engineering-services partner for clean, efficient, integrated propulsion and energy systems. For over 100 years, Ricardo has been using engineering and research and development expertise to help global vehicle manufacturers innovate and improve the efficiency and performance of their products to bring them to market quicker and more cheaply without compromising safety or quality.

 

Purpose:

As the Programme Manager at Ricardo you will be responsible for successfully leading the delivery of complex engineering projects to a diverse list of global customers across a broad range of industries and sectors. You will work with industry recognized experts to deliver cutting edge solutions to our customer. You will be:             

Leading complex projects, with full responsibility for delivering on-time, on-budget and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction. This will include leading commercial management of projects
Being the senior customer interface for the project, establishing strong and effective customer relationships.
Understanding and documenting our competitive differentiators and proposal critical success factors
Supporting Business Development in closing deals through refining our offer
You will work directly with customer and/or Ricardo engineers to understand the scope of the project and to ensure that all objectives are known and achievable
Monitor project progress, resources, tools, materials, expenses, and schedules; Supporting in resolves discrepancies and bring issues to management’s attention when needed
Liaise between the various departments internally to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness
Prepare project reviews and reports for stakeholders on achievements, progress, risk management
Ensuring projects are delivered in adherence with Ricardo’s internal project management processes and procedures, including Ricardo’s Product Development System.
Managing and monitoring project scope and leading customer negotiations on changes
Review and approval of proposal scope of work, timing plans, risk assessments and budgets; ensuring that proposals can be successfully delivered
Supporting development of Ricardo’s internal project management capability by supporting and coaching more junior members of the project management team
Depending on the project(s) worked on, the role will involve some travel.

 

Key accountabilities:

Essential

Be degree qualified, ideally in an engineering or related discipline; specific knowledge of software and, or, electronics would be valuable.
Have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
Have strong experience of leading complex development projects following product development / introduction processes
Be commercially astute with a demonstrable track record of successfully negotiating scope changes with customers
Have proven stakeholder management skills with demonstrable experience of managing challenging commercial customer relationships
Have a professional project management background and be APM qualified (or the equivalent from another professional PM body)
Have a natural desire to contribute to continuous improvement within the function 

 

Working here

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

 

Wellbeing and work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's 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. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

 

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

 

Benefits

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.

 

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.