The Role
At Unite Students our aim is to create a Home for Success for our students, using technology and data to empower them to find their home and have a great stay with us, and a great experience throughout their student life.
Reporting into the Project Management Lead the Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals. Working closely with our BA and Change teams, internal customers and external partners delivering key change helping Unite Students to reach its business goals. The role will be part of the Portfolio Office
What You ll Be Doing
- Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget, including the creation and maintenance of project plans, managing resources, working with third parties and strategic partners.
- Manage a portfolio of projects including reporting, deliverables, and benefits tracking. Provide best practice and advice on project management frameworks and standards for PMO and wider business.
- Ensure budgets are managed by forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions
- Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Manage stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment to deliver the project
- Work with the business to understand the requirements and scope of the project
- Manage 3rd party suppliers to deliver to time, cost and quality
- Liaise and communicate effectively with IT teams and members of the business at all levels
- Identify and manage risks to ensure delivery is on time
- Maintain a good working knowledge of other areas of the business, and activities of our competitors; keep up to date with trends and developments within own professional area
- Share best practice, and be principled in pursuit of the delivery of a world class student and employee experience
- Be efficient - think about the value being generated as if you re spending your own money
- Achieve any targets and KPIs as agreed with line manager
- Any other duties as required by line manager
What We re Looking for in You
- Great interpersonal skills to work well with your key business partners
- Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision
- Experienced in both agile and waterfall methodologies
- Experience of working within a PMO environment
- Oracle and Salesforce experience is desirable
- Proven experience of Business Change Techniques
- Experience in delivering projects with solutions involving both bespoke and package solutions
- Able to translate IT speak into clear language that non IT colleagues can understand
- PMP/ Prince 2 certification
- Basic understanding of data protection legislation and experience of developing and maintaining a team environment where personal data is kept protected, confidential and secure
What You ll Get in Return
- An annual bonus so you can share in the company s success
- 25 days paid holiday
- Pension - based on how much you save, we ll contribute 1% more
- Flexible working opportunities
- Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
- Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more!
About Unite Students
Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with over 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn t just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Students. Employees, students, and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
We are US.
