NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights per year and offer a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.
NATS Services, operates as part of the NATS group, focussed on business development, strategic partnerships, and business ventures with a capability to respond to new markets, including accommodating commercial drones in controlled airspace, whilst at the same time retaining the fantastic business and customers we have today.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join NATS Solutions and Innovations team, that deliver unique cutting-edge software solutions against a Project Programme/Portfolio.
You will develop fully costed, resourced and deliverable plans, manage risk against complex investment / customer requirements, ultimately achieve successful delivery and project closure.
Other duties include:
- Lead strategic Major & Complex bids, ensuring work is structured and robust schedules are created
- Manage internal resource, partners, suppliers and/or sub-contractors through full lifecycle of projects
- Achieve performance targets and represent NATS / Project, directly to customer and project stakeholders
- Ensure project mobilisation, planning and scheduling, tracking of milestones and project requirements, management of the project critical path, assess risk (threats and opportunities), issue resolution, project finances (tracking actual spend and forecast) and change management.
- Competitive planning for higher value/higher risk or strategically important bids
- Stakeholder meetings, presentations, reports, and workshops
- Communicate business intelligence to relevant NATS Commercial Teams (e.g., Business Development, Account Managers)
- Apply quality management processes including deliverables, issues, decisions & outputs, and lessons learnt
- Provide recommendations to improve delivery of investment requests, projects, and product improvement
Essential skills and experience:
- A business-based qualification at degree level or equivalent with evidence of continued professional development
- Qualified or working towards APM-PPQ in project management or equivalent
- Capable of leading and managing several major & complex projects
- Proven skills in all facets of Project and Risk Management
- Analytical, and conceptual reasoning skills, strong communicator
- Credible with sophisticated negotiation and conflict resolution style
- Collaborative with a relentless focus on delivering customer centric, profitable outcomes
- Resilient and highly developed situational awareness
- Background in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) market, or similar experience within an innovation space
- Able to develop mutually beneficial relationships, and work with customers directly to influence requirements and decision making
- Flexible with travel both within the UK and internationally when required
Additional Vacancy Information:
We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to a competitive salary, you’ll also benefit from an annual performance related incentive, private healthcare, dental, DC pension, generous leave entitlement and a range of other benefits, wellness support and comprehensive learning and development.
We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely.
If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.
