An internationally renowned investment corporation with offices all over the world is now looking to add to the Senior Management Team of its Global Project Management Office, in Edinburgh. This is a superb opportunity to work with a truly international organisation which offers not only an unrivalled working environment, but also fabulous career opportunities, world wide.
The post holder will be tasked with managing people within the project management office. The people you will be managing will be project managers of all levels, so you will have worked as a project manager delivering and leading projects, but will since have moved into (or will want to move into) a more people management focused role. As such, the post holder will not actually be involved in project delivery, but rather managing the people who lead & deliver projects.
You will be involved in:
- Staff management
- Coaching, training, mentoring and motivating your teams
- Leading teams and project managers both in the UK and abroad (US & Europe)
- Resource management
- Identification of process improvements
- Providing and identifying development opportunities and training needs for your team members
- Hiring team members
- Performance monitoring
You should have a background in project management, ideally within the financial services or investments industry. You must also have considerable staff management experience and will want to develop your career in this direction.
If you genuinely meet all of the above criteria and are interested in hearing more about this exciting role, please send your CV in WORD format to Peter Stevenson at Quantum People: marketing@quantumpeole.com quoting reference: SM1211-14 and stating your current remuneration and package.
Salary: Extremely competitive, depending upon experience, plus superb benefits package
Location: Edinburgh, with travel to other offices
Note to candidates: Our brief on this role is extremely strict so only those candidates who have the requisite experience will be shortlisted. Because of the vast response to our ads at present we are unable to give individual feedback on applications and we can only guarantee to contact those candidates who have been successful.
