Project Manager

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Function: IT
Contract: Full time - Permanent
Location: Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL with flexible hybrid working

Bentley Motors is combining a world of luxury and progressive technology to embrace an electrified future. Join us as we embark on the most transformative phase in Bentley's history.

Purpose of the Role

Join the IT Team as a Project Manager, responsible for leading and managing multiple low to mid complexity projects in parallel, working with a range of customers and resources.

Reporting into the Tribe Lead, the role holder will manage, plan, coordinate and steer end to end projects, in line with Bentleys delivery frameworks and processes, ensuring that project cost and investments are efficient and are aligned with the company's strategy and the projects supporting benefits case.

You will lead by example, creating and maintaining strong customer relationships with project teams and sponsors, making sure the needs of business operations are in place from project launch.

• Manage, plan, coordinate and steer end to end projects, in line with Bentleys delivery frameworks and processes
• Prepare and present resource estimates along with all other investment requirements
• Create related budget spend forecasts
• Ensuring business cases are valid and approved prior to project commencement
• Identify internal and external project dependencies and prepare inclusive work breakdown structure and stories
• Determine project methodology to apply in accordance with the established Bentleys project management framework
• Lead active risk and issue management, ensuring that risks and issues are owned, actioned and escalated
• Build relationships and influence project stakeholders and project team members

About the Team
Tribe is part of the wider IT Delivery function, sitting within the IT Team at Bentley. The IT Delivery function are responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of IT change to enable our stakeholders to meet their strategic goals as part of the Beyond 100 Strategy. Tribe is an integral part of this delivery capability through our Value Streams, as well as operating as a community of practice focused on continuous improvement to our Project Management processes and capabilities.

About you - Skills and Experience

• Intermediate project management skills applied in a work environment
• Knowledge of programme management principles
• Extensive experience of working within a structured project environment, over the full lifecycle
• Evidence of successful delivery of strategic projects with targets and experience of working to time, cost and quality objectives
• Ability to build relationships with people at all levels
• Ability to effectively plan, organise and prioritise workloads, across multiple projects with a range of stakeholders
• Problem solving skills and an ability to understand, interpret complex business issues and processes
• Core project management skills, techniques and methods, including WBS, CPM, SWOT analysis and Risk and issue management
• Experience of Agile methods and agile tools (Jira / Confluence)
• Experience of Waterfall project delivery methodologies

What Bentley Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working options
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays
• Progression pathways and programmes, mentoring, and study support opportunities available
• Optional car lease scheme with discounted access to brand new VW Group cars (VW, Seat, Skoda, Audi) up to every six months
• Health and life assurance benefits providing up to five times annual salary
• Annual salary reviews and competitive bonus scheme
• Contributory pension scheme - you put in 6% we put in 10%
• Access to a wide range of resources to support your health and well-being including an online GP, the choice to join BUPA health plans, a mental health counsellor, and onsite physio
• Paid volunteering days dedicated to community giving

The Bentley Campus
Our campus is going through an exciting transformation offering unrivalled facilities including green spaces, free parking, an onsite restaurant, coffee shops and Legends gym.

#BelongingAtBentley
Motivated to be the most diverse, inclusive luxury car company, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals are respected, valued, and empowered.

We firmly believe in equal opportunities for all, helping all colleagues thrive as their authentic selves and reach their highest potential. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs, belongs at Bentley. Everyone is entitled to respect and dignity and we positively celebrate the differences between people.

Beyond100
Announced in 2020, Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy targets sustainable luxury mobility leadership, reinventing every aspect of the business. Building on over two decades of forward-thinking, join us as Bentley moves towards a sustainable future.

Closing date: 1st July 2024

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