Senior Programme Manager

About the role

The Senior Programme Manager will be working in a new product category within Dyson’s wider product development organisation. Reporting into the Head of Product Programmes, the role entails leading multi-disciplinary project teams in different international locations spanning the design and development, manufacturing engineering, product quality and reliability, operations and commercial functions to develop new Dyson products from concept definition to launch. As a key collaborator and influencer across the organisation, the Senior Programme Manager is pivotal to enable the project, or programme of projects to deliver the business objectives across time, cost and spec.

Dyson is a design and innovation led company, whilst equally valuing project schedule adherence and budget adherence.

Accountabilities

• Co-lead with the project Design Manager, the project team spanning multiple international locations, towards delivering the project success criteria from proven concept to launch.

• Apply core PM capability to identify interdependencies between functional work packages and facilitate collaborative working between functional teams.

• Apply core PM capability to be the initiator and custodian of an integrated schedule, associated risk and assumptions, and change management to the project success criteria.

• Take an active, hands-on role to support the identification and resolution of risks to project success criteria.

• Lead Programme Management of an emerging category to demonstrate best practice portfolio management including budget, resource and execution.

• Coordinate and own programme and project communications and reporting.

• Engage and inform key stakeholders outside of the project team in pursuit of the project success criteria.

• Identify and articulate any conflict between the project success criteria.

• Leading by example to adhere to Project Management governance of the project while ensuring appropriate and pragmatic approaches are adopted.

• Apply programme and project management capability in purposeful, flexible and innovative ways in response to a dynamic delivery environment.

• Proactively champion change & continuous improvement to adopt better ways of working.

About You

Qualifications/Experience:

• Hold, or demonstrate an understanding of, formal project management qualifications (such as APMP) or Project Management degree. Qualified or near qualified applicants preferred.

• Candidate must possess a degree in Engineering or Science or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience. Knowledge and some experience of Systems Engineering preferred.

• 8+ years' experience of managing technical or manufacturing projects end to end.

• Candidates with experience of working in a regulated industry to ISO certification QMS standards are preferred.

• Candidates with knowledge and experience of developing Electronics Systems HW and SW preferred.

• Candidates with project Life Cycle Management experience preferred.

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, notably Microsoft Project.

• Candidates with exposure to procurement, supply chain, build planning and marketing & sales preferred.

• Experience of managing people, mentoring, developing and coaching.

• Experience of line management responsibility is desirable.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills: able to build and leverage productive working relationships to deliver through others.

• Outstanding programme and project management capabilities focused on delivery (i.e. leadership, senior stakeholder management and communication, risk management, issue resolution, budget tracking, benefits analysis, estimating and planning etc).

• Authentic leadership: able to provide clear, collaborative direction towards a common goal.

• Strong communicator: able to listen and convey complex issues concisely and accurately to all levels in the business.

• Excellent analytical skills: able to use sound analytical assessment to make data driven, evidenced conclusions.

Behaviours:

• Energetic, enthusiastic, curious, common sense, proactive self-starter, resilient and with perseverance.

• Confident: comfortable interacting with colleagues at all levels without diluting unfavourable news.

• Assertive: readiness to articulate and communicate appropriately towards issue resolution as required.

• Credible: ability to demonstrate a high level of understanding across all aspects of the project including engineering design and processes in order to prepare trustworthy schedule and decision information.

• Focused: The ability to multi-task and direct self effectively in a fast-paced and often high-pressure environment.