Project Manager

• Job Title: Project Manager
• Location: Queens Hospital
• £55,000 Salary + Bonus
• Holidays
• 40 Hours
• Sodexo Benefits

Job Introduction

As a Project Manager at Sodexo Queens Hospital you will be reporting to the Head of Projects, this role leads the planning and delivery of complex projects or programmes, ensuring alignment with business strategy. It maintains a strategic overview of initiatives, defines requirements, and translates them into operational plans, while overseeing scope, timelines, resources, and risks to ensure successful delivery.

What You'll Do:

• Support the delivery of multiple ED transformation projects across the Queens site over a 3-year period
• Manage key project deliverables, including CAPEX, OPEX, and quality outcomes
• Ensure full compliance with Sodexo commercial processes and checklists throughout all project phases
• Use systems such as Active Plan and Bolster to maintain contractual compliance and accurate project tracking
• Produce and manage documentation to successfully deliver a portfolio of complex or high-impact projects and programmes
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, escalating where necessary to ensure successful delivery
• Act as the key liaison between clients, SMEs, operations, and business development, coordinating required resources
• Oversee governance, performance, project controls, budgets, reporting, and stakeholder expectations to ensure effective delivery

What You Bring:

Essential

• Holds a professional qualification (Prince2 or PMI or studying to achieve).
• At least 2 years’ experience in a full Project Management role.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong planning and organising skills.
• Good knowledge of best practice & standards such as ITIL, SDLC, ISO9000, ISO27001
• Experience of providing support in a large corporate environment and of working with customers at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, including skills in hosting demonstrations and training.
• Demonstrable experience of forward planning, problem solving, analytical thinking, providing solutions via email, telephone and face-to-face.
• Experience of working with IT staff from frontline to developers, and clients from SME to end users and business managers.
• Experience in customer requirements analysis and translating to operational and functional specifications

Desirable

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Good team worker but able to work under own initiative
• Full Driving License and valid passport
• Understanding of Business costs and efficiencies
• Understanding of Software life-cycle
• Security Clearance (May need to obtain SC security clearance)

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

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