Home Group Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager

Home Group Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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Project Manager
One Strawberry Lane
This is a hybrid role where you’ll work from our Newcastle or Durham office 2 days a week and the rest from home
Salary: £43,500 to £50,000 pa, depending on skills and experience, with great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

This is your chance to make a big impact, leading our strategic change initiatives that support the delivery of our organisational priorities at Home Group. As Project Manager in our Repairs and Maintenance team, the programme of change is dynamic and you'll use your expertise to deliver system and operational improvements, along with DLO and contractor mobilisations.

It's all about building strong relationships, managing expectations, full stakeholder engagement and playing a key role in supporting change that benefits our customers. Amazing we know!

Typical day as Project Manager
- Leading business change across multiple departments using our Project@Home framework, where you’ll enhance the future of our Repairs and Maintenance services.
- Manage projects using both waterfall and agile SCRUM methods, ensuring timely and successful delivery, and collaborating with stakeholders to understand project scope and key deliverables, maintaining these important relationships whilst ensuring expectations are met.
- Utilise Smartsheet for planning, tracking, automating, and real-time reporting on project progress.
- Ensuring agile delivery in our Repairs and Maintenance team, defining processes and managing products effectively.

It’s brilliant going home each day knowing that you had a hand in improving our customers lives for the better! You really do, do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You have
- A PRINCE 2 or APM PMQ qualification with strong experience in applying agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Experience in project planning and resource management, using project controls and risk management. You’ll be an expert in change management that is focused on delivering customer benefits.
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills to achieve win-win outcomes. You’ll be a great influencer and able to think outside of the box on how things can be done more efficiently.
- Able to build and maintain important stakeholder relationships, quickly gaining the confidence of colleagues and senior leaders.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review

Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details
- Flexible working hours, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. If you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that too!
- This is a hybrid role, and you’ll spend a couple of days a week at our office at Newcastle or Durham, and the rest working at home.
- There may be some occasional travel

A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
- Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Colleague wellbeing really matters to us. There are several tools available to support you when you need them.
- Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Project Manager Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.
Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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