Project Manager - Operations

As the project leader you will own the delivery of multiple projects from the costing stage through to the end delivery, but you will not be responsible for administering of the tasks. You are the professional who leads people and makes sure a project is carried through. As the project leader you need to engage the team, motivating them, taking care of their needs, whilst maintaining a friendly and productive work environment. You must be extremely organised, excellent communication skills, with sound IT skills. You should be self-motivated with the ability to develop good working relationships with people at levels of the business.

What will I be doing?

Financial Management

• Owning the P&L for the project
• Understanding the financial performance of the project
• Developing insights for future costing/pricing

Decision Maker

• Defining the project management process to be applied to the project.
• Identifying key teams across the department and operations and identify the Core Team Members.
• Preparing project plan and obtain Core Team Members approval of the project plan.
• Establishing and publishing clear priorities among project activities.
• Assure that all team members understand their roles and accept their responsibilities
• Giving clear directions and instructions to both team members and stakeholders, to enable them carryout their duties effectively
• Applying project resources according to the approved project plan.
• Involving functional expertise in design reviews and key decisions as well as risk strategies.

Stakeholder Management

• Keeping all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Analysing risk and instigate avoidance activities. Establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating corrective action.
• Coordinating management and technical decisions.
• Negotiating the performance of activities with team members and their managers.
• Providing input on the performance of project team members to their managers
• Arbitrating and resolve conflict and interface problems within the project.

Future Thinking

• Tracking and report on progress to plan.
• Analysing the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Assuring timely adaptive action is taken.
• Managing change to preserve business plan commitments. Initiate Phase Review if objectives must change.
• Identifying future and implement future developments which will help the improve the performance of the current and future portfolio.

Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and working the rest from home.

What do I need to bring with me?

To be successful in this role you will need the following skills and experience:

• Ability to manage multiple project tasks and work to set timescales
• Analytical skill to interpret data based results on fieldwork performance
• Exhibit good leadership skills by carrying everyone along without bias
• Be highly focused in order to stick to the objectives and goals of the company without giving in to undue distractions and challenges
• Exhibit good motivational skills to bring out the best in team members
• Good crises management skills to handle pressure from project challenges
• Good temperament to deal with team members’ shortcomings.
• A good level of excel skills (pivots, lookups), running existing macros
• Understanding of project costs and working within budget
• Competent in office-based software packages with the ability to learn new systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What is in it for me?

Ipsos UK offer an attractive basic salary and a rewards package including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme and a great range of flexible benefits to suit your personal needs. For roles at Research Manager level and above we also offer private healthcare.

In addition to this we have a fantastic Learning & Development offer delivered through a mix of face to face, online or on-demand.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

Ipsos is committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We also recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we’re proud to share we’ve received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!