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Position Title:  Programme Manager
Department: PMO
Location: London
 
Job Summary: 

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated individual to join our market-leading PMO team at Cushman & Wakefield. This role is ideal for a newly qualified Surveyor looking to develop a successful career within Programme Management.

The objective of the role is to deliver operational management of client Real Estate programmes within the Programme Management Office (PMO). This position works closely with various global and EMEA clients, third parties and diverse cross-functional stakeholders within Cushman & Wakefield to advise, plan, mobilise, deliver and track multifaceted deliverables.
 
This includes, but is not limited to, developing and maintaining standardised programme planning and control systems, ensuring effective integration and communication across stakeholders, driving momentum and alignment of programme activity, managing risk and escalations, implementing robust compliance and governance protocols and providing programme oversight and support.
 
A Consultant at Cushman & Wakefield provides excellent professional service to clients and is key to the day-to-day delivery of client activity. The expectation is that the successful candidate will be able to lead existing client accounts, including project teams, with minimal instruction and support mobilisation of new or complex accounts when required.
 
Key Responsibilities:
• Kick off new projects and support new programmes by leading steering committee, working group and subject specific meetings across all levels of seniority and ensuring meeting governance is in place throughout.
• Support the development of client strategy, ensure this is translated into achievable programme deliverables and gain buy in.
• Ensure critical success factors, goals and objectives are approved, robust and effectively communicated to create successful change culture.
• Support identification of stakeholders, resourcing gaps, stakeholder risk and appointed decision makers, ensure Roles and Responsibilities are communicated and understood.
• Engage programme and project teams and develop and manage communication plans across all channels, including knowledge sharing, programme updates, confidentiality, access and media management.
• Ensure early risk identification mechanisms are in place, manage the Risk Register, mitigating actions and escalations.
• Lead all subject matter experts to develop, review, integrate and commit to programme phases, tasks and deliverables to create a master programme plan, own the plan throughout the programme.
• Engage operational teams to review any in-flight projects or programmes that will affect or be affected by programme activities and ensure well planned integration activities.
• Plan and agree programme timeline, critical dates, milestones and slack.
• Develop budget and cost plan in line with financial stakeholders, manage business case approval workflow.
• Employ change control mechanisms to govern scope creep and alignment.
• Employ change management mechanisms to ensure continued engagement of sponsors, project teams and end users.
• Develop and issue reporting, tracking and communication tools and updates to align to the communications plan and ensure stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Develop and implement early and post programme feedback mechanisms to ensure the programme is successful, implement iterative process improvement.
• Facilitate training and onboarding throughout the programme.
• Develop and / or facilitate development of Playbooks, process documentation and governance tools to capture best practice and future operations.

If you are keen to hear more about the role and the wider team within Cushman & Wakefield then please get in touch today.

We foster a culture of inclusion that embraces the unique strengths, perspectives, and experiences of all our employees. We firmly believe that our diversity enhances our team's capabilities, leading to improved decision-making, innovation, and business outcomes. If you have any reservations about applying, please don't hesitate to reach out to your local recruiter for additional information.