Head of Projects, Healthcare - Remote, United Kingdom - Mitie

Mitie

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Remote, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Mitie is a UK-based facilities management and technical services company (revenue c.£3.4bn). We are one of the UK's 250 largest public companies.

Mitie /Communities is one of the four major business divisions within Mitie, alongside Technical Services, Business Services and Central Government & Defence. At Mitie Communities we serve public sector clients in Healthcare, Education (schools and universities), local authorities and councils and emergency services. We provide our clients with both soft and hard facilities management services. Our contracts include both commercial output-specified contracts and Private Finance Initiative contracts.

Position Over-view

This role is national and so location of employee is flexible.

Mitie Projects is the projects central function within Mitie and is developing into a class leading function that supplies and supports exemplar performance for the end-2-end projects process across the Communities portfolio of contracts.

The Projects workstream within Communities is significant and its Healthcare Sector has a significant pipeline of both Lifecycle and Capital projects across its portfolio of acuate, regional, local and community hospitals and medical facilities.

The role of Head of Projects for Healthcare is a key central function role covering our national portfolio (including Northern Ireland) which provides senior management, support and guidance to each contract and the projects teams within them, as well as central function PM's and supply chain partners supporting the development and delivery of projects.

The role focus is to develop and achieve high performance from the projects teams and to target and support growth opportunities within existing and new contracts and clients.

Responsibilities

Have line management responsibilities for FM contract embedded project team leads.
Have management duties on central function project resources that are working on projects within your sector.
Manage, with wider projects colleagues, any thirdparty suppliers involved in the delivery of projects within your sector (including both professional services and delivery suppliers).
Provide strategic support to each Healthcare contract and the Mitie Healthcare Executive team to both develop performance and growth strategies but also to enable and deliver them into the portfolio.
Support and guide each contract projects team and any associated projects central function resources in the development and realisation of the lifecycle and capital projects pipelines.
Monitor and report on the delivery of projects within the sector against key metrics and to the frequency and quality required.
Work with the contracts to identify support requirements and enable these to be provided through with the Projects central function or through third party resources where appropriate.
Build an effective and meaningful projects pipeline within the sector utilising internal and external support where required to enable and pursue opportunities and growth.
Target growth within the sector in line with the Communities' BU growth objectives.
Build effective relationships with operational leads within the contracts and sector to support performance, management, integration and development of both the Projects deliverables but also the wider contract needs.
Look to identify innovation, efficiencies and growth opportunities within both lifecycle and capital projects workstreams where any benefits can be had.
Provide input and support in new client opportunities including input into bids and new pipelines
Work with the procurement team and wider Mitie Group on procurement strategies and opportunities
Be part of solution development for new opportunities either within existing contracts or new clients

Knowledge, skills & experience

Track record of the development of lifecycle and capital programmes, planning, forecasting, delivery and reporting in a complex, commercial, multidivisional organisation.
Understanding and experience of the Healthcare sector and developing Project delivery strategies in this environment
Experience of working in complex PFI contracts as well as direct to Trust.
Experience of, and background in, the FM sector.
Experience of supporting the development of Projects, FM, asset and support service strategies
Proven ability to work as part of a team and under their own steam
Proven ability as a manager for all levels of resources.
Track record of working with and managing complex and senior stakeholder teams both internal and external

Skills and Personal Qualities:

Excellent leadership and motivational people management skills
Professional acumen, with excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills
Ability to work openly and collaboratively at all levels to maximise overall organisational health

Strong commercial acumen