Project Manager

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our Business Improvement team.  This role involves travel to the following locations London, Birmingham, Northants, Somerset, Shropshire, Norfolk

Location: Nationwide with travel across London, Birmingham, Northants, Somerset, Shropshire, Norfolk – hybrid working
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £54,000 - £60,000 per year + £5,900 annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As a Business Improvement Project Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering improvement initiatives across our Transportation Operational & Maintenance contracts. Working collaboratively with operational teams and stakeholders, you'll provide structured project management support to help drive initiatives from development through to successful implementation. Operating with a high degree of independence, you'll help strengthen our delivery capacity and ensure proven solutions are adopted across our portfolio.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Project Manager, you'll be working within the Business Improvement team, supporting them in delivering a growing portfolio of business improvement initiatives. Your day to day will include:

• Managing project plans, actions, risks, issues and governance across multiple business improvement initiatives
• Coordinating stakeholders, meetings and workshops to ensure projects maintain momentum
• Supporting improvement initiatives from development and trial through to wider adoption
• Developing clear business cases, reports, presentations and project updates to support decision making
• Monitoring project outcomes and benefits, escalating risks and barriers where appropriate

What are we looking for?

This role of Project Manager is ideal for someone with:

• Proven experience managing projects or business improvement initiatives, involving multiple teams and stakeholders
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage plans, actions and competing priorities across several initiatives
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, building effective relationships with operational teams and senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, with experience turning information into clear business cases, reports, presentations and project updates
• A collaborative and proactive approach, bringing people together to support successful project delivery and continuous improvement

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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