Performance and Planning Lead - Manchester, United Kingdom - AQA and AQA Affiliates

AQA and AQA Affiliates Manchester, United Kingdom

5 days ago

Full time

Description

Performance and Planning Lead

Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Manchester: £35,000 - £39,000
Guildford: £36,500 - £40,500

Hybrid

Are you looking to make a positive impact to teachers and students across the UK?

Due to an internal promotion (which shows that we are serious about supporting careers) we need you to join the team. You will be involved in projects spanning the whole organisation with access to tangible opportunities for growth and career development.

AQA is much more than just an awarding organisation. Our purpose is to advance education by enabling teachers and students to realise their potential, with your project management or process improvement knowledge you'll have autonomy to focus on delivering high profile projects that really make a difference to teachers and students.

As the Product Management Performance and Planning Lead you'll organise and report on the Product Management programme of work. Collaborating and working in a matrix style across all areas and levels of the organisation, you'll produce clear, project-focused plans which clarify priorities and activities. You'll work within the Product Management team and with other planning and project management colleagues across the business, building collaboration between teams. You'll develop and manage the roadmap of key Product Management activities and drive the delivery of innovative, commercially focused projects that meet, and beat, our targets. You'll have a key role in mitigating risks of delivery and to be the objective voice ensuring our planning processes and outputs enable excellent project delivery.

Joining the Product Management team means becoming a part of a team of commercial champions who define the strategic direction of our products for AQA. Your work will help drive the projects which improve our product offer for our customers and differentiate us as an awarding organisation.

What's in it for you?

Reporting to the Head of Product (Portfolio) , you'll have exposure and influence across the whole organisation.
Professional and personal development at your fingertips.
Supportive and driven peer group and a real sense of being heard.
Access to a pension which could see you paying in 7% and AQA contributing 11.5%.
Life Assurance, 35 hour working week, 25 days holiday, increasing with services and Christmas off.
The ability to unwind and focus on self-care through the full Headspace App and our Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes.

What you'll do

Drive quality and promote collaboration between teams.
You'll have the chance to get involved with planning, delivering and reporting on the high profile projects which help us maintain our position as the market leading awarding organisation in the UK.
You'll take the lead in ensuring all Product Management projects are meticulously planned prioritised and routed to ensure the best solution in an agile way.
You'll use process improvement and agile methodologies to really look at the project delivery across all of AQA and be the point person across the team's multiple projects and initiatives.
Engage with, and hold to account, operational functions responsible for delivering their part, ensuring all initiatives are on track , risks are logged and managed.
Using gravitas, planning and management Information to meticulously organise and deliver a constant stream of projects to ensure we continue to deliver the very best to teachers and students

Having planned and used creative problem solving solutions in a multiple and conflicting prioritisation environment in the past will stand you in good stead, as will a good knowledge of systems and tools. Experience with Airtable and/or Projects would be beneficial.

As someone who understands the necessity of planning, organisation, creative problem solving, and has an excellent understanding of how people, objectives, process and systems link together in a complex organisational environment then this is the job for you.

What's next?

Read the full job description below then upload your most recent CV with a cover letter to tell us about yourself.

We will be holding interviews in the week beginning 8 July 2024

All applications will receive a written response

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