Total 12 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Bristol, Bristol, BS1 1AD

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Bristol - 2 days per week onsite
Compensation: £80 per hour
Length: 6 months

Build the future

We are working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Manager with us.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility

Mission Systems

The Senior Project Manager role is based within a critical business area. The organisation is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers' needs.

The Role

The department is transforming, and we need you to support our drive for growth, leading our teams through exciting and sometimes challenging situations. You'll be one of our Senior Project Managers, overseeing and delivering complex projects across a number of engineering contracts. Providing day-to-day operational management of a team of project staff, you'll be responsible for the timely and cost-effective delivery of products and services to our customers.

You'll play a key role in growing our contracts and building strong customer relationships, implementing our ambitious strategy. You'll drive growth and the role will provide high levels of responsibility and the opportunity to work at the front of delivering some key UK Defence and Security contracts.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing overall operational and strategic management of assigned tasks projects within your project team.
• Project management of complex engineering projects ensuring that the delivery teams understand cost, time and quality requirements and remain coordinated in their approach to delivering agreed scope of work.
• Providing end-to-end delivery throughout the project lifecycle, you'll also be responsible for supporting with requirement capture, scoping, technical and commercial solutions and the generation of pricing models and proposal documents.
• Providing effective risk management to ensure that the business' risk exposure is kept to a minimum and is effectively managed throughout the project.
• Ensuring that effective change management is applied to projects, balancing flexibility to changing customer requirements with the need for robust commercial agreements.
• Defining acceptance criteria for contracted deliverables and production of professional handover documentation to ensure timely close-out of milestones and projects as well as technical handover to our operational teams.
• Identifying, reviewing and applying lessons learnt as part of continuous improvement for future requirements.
• Reviewing and presentation of management information including regular finance reviews and Project Boards to ensure effective internal stakeholder management and stringent financial management.
• Ensuring that the project team are working to a consistent high standard and customer and business stakeholders and kept informed.
• Ensuring adherence to standard project management methodology, APM and best practice within the project management profession.
• Embodying the organisations principles as a role-model and a standard setter within Mission Systems

Person Specification

Experience

• APM PMQ, Chartered status or equivalent (advantageous)
• Considerable experience in the advanced application of Project Management techniques in a relevant technical project environment.
• Experience in leading and managing a team of project staff, providing direction and motivation.
• Experience managing projects with differing demands and deadlines.
• Great financial management to ensure a high level of profitability on projects.
• Experience delivering solutions with a diverse team of both internal resource teams and external supply chains
• Direct line management experience as well as leadership in a matrix environment
• Experience of working within the Defence and Security sector is highly desirable
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of contract and commercial management
• Experience working with senior level managers both internally and externally.

Skills and attributes

• Passion for the business - driving short and longer term contract delivery performance and growth throughout the business
• Relationship management - building effective working relationships with key customers, internal stakeholders and suppliers where appropriate
• Project Management expertise - especially in requirements capture, risk and financial management
• Business acumen and consultative selling skills - seen by customer as a trusted advisor rather than salesperson
• Coaching and leadership - providing leadership and influence in a matrix organisation to direct line reports and the wider team and fulfilment members from across the business
• Facilitation - engaging a cross section of functional representatives from customer and colleague communities; you're able to operate at all levels in and across the organisations
• Technical - a background in, or a general understanding of, mechanical, electrical, data and minor construction disciplines is highly desirables
• Championing the organisations principles and a role model for project management best practices

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Transport Planner (Senior / Principal)with experience in development planning within either private practice or local government settings. You willjoin a well-established consultancy providingtraffic engineeringand infrastructure design solutionsacross the UK.This full-time role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

As a Transport Planner (Senior / Principal), you will engage in the planning and delivery of sustainable development projects, leveraging your technical knowledge to produce practical transport solutions.

They are looking for a candidate in one of the following locations:Bristol, Sheffield, Nottingham

What we are looking for:

- Previously worked as a Transport Planner,Planning Engineer, Urban Planner or in a similar role.

- Experience in development planning within either private practice or local government settings.

- Background with Transport Assessments, Statements, Site Access Appraisals, Travel Plans, and highway / junction design.

- Strong technical skills, with strong understanding of transport analysis and design software (ARCADY, PICADY, TRICS, Tempro, and AutoCAD).

- Solid report writing abilities and effective communication skills.

What's on offer:

- Competitive salary

- Pension scheme

- Private health insurance

- Life insurance

- Cycle to Work scheme

- Contributions towards professional memberships

- Participation in an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT)

Apply now for this exceptional Senior / Principal Transport Planneropportunity to work with a dynamic team and further enhance your career.

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The Opportunity Hub UK is helping an exciting company find a project manager who can handle the mayhem of managing multiple construction projects. Bring your A-game to lead teams in delivering tip-top fit outs and refurbishments across the UK. It'll be controlled chaos - but you'll love it!

This growing company needs someone brilliant at juggling multiple priorities and keeping projects on time and on budget. You'll work with clients and contractors to nail the scope and programming of projects. Attention to detail is key to ensure high-quality work.

Here's what you'll be doing:

- Overseeing everything from start to finish - scoping, budgeting, scheduling, safety.
- Building relationships with clients and contractors - getting them onboard and working together.
- Making sure multiple projects meet deadlines and quality standards - no small feat!

Here are the skills you'll need:

- Proven experience as a project manager in construction or fit outs - you can handle the madness!
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills - working with different teams is crucial.
- Sharp organizational and time management abilities - for keeping everything on track.
- Diligence and stellar attention to detail - delivering exceptional quality is a must.

Here are the benefits of this job:

- Opportunity to drive exciting projects from start to finish - ownership and accountability.
- Chance to support a growing company - make your mark.
- Abundant variety - no two days will be the same in this dynamic role.
- Private healthcare
- Income protection
- Long service holiday

PROJECT ENGINEER

BRISTOL

£45,000 - £50,000 + BONUS + TRAINING + BENEFITS

Due to ongoing success and company expansion, my client are looking to add to their skilled design team with the addition of a Project Engineer.

We are looking for an experienced Project Engineer. If you're a driven & highly motivated person wishing to craft out a successful and rewarding future in what is a truly unique environment, this could be the role for you. You will be working on a variety of interesting projects, spanning several sectors.

THE ROLE:

Support the Project Manager in resource planning.

Ensuring timely, safe and cost-effective Design for Manufacturing (DFM) to meet specifications.

Adherence to Quality, H&S and Environmental Management systems.

Supplier and client liaison to achieve technical compliance.

Supporting procurement by advising on purchase order technical specifications.

Producing technical documentation to ensure timelines are met.

Ensure all testing activities are undertaken safely and adhere to customer requirements.

Liaison with design staff, Workshop Manager, After Sales Manager, suppliers and customers during project implementation.

Approval of design drawings and 3D models in accordance with Drawing Standards and release process.

THE PERSON:

Experience of hydraulics and pneumatics.

Background in the FMCG environment.

Knowledge of pump systems.

A sound working knowledge of Solidworks or similar is needed.

Working knowledge of Quality Systems including documentation.

Need to be good in front of customers and suppliers

BENEFITS:

• 28 days + Bank Holidays
• Full Sick Pay
• Company Bonus Scheme
• Medical cashback plan
• Life assurance

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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Experis have partnered with a brilliant client in the South West looking to recruit a Business Analyst to join their team with a focus on BI and MI projects. This role will be instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making across our client through analyzing, developing and delivering actionable insights. As a key link between stakeholders and technical teams, you will work to understand business needs, translate requirements, and contribute to the strategic development of BI and MI capabilities.

This is an initial 6 month contract Inside of IR35. There will be scope for a few extensions.

You will be required to travel on-site one day per month.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with stakeholders across departments to understand and document business requirements for BI and MI projects.
• Work closely with data and BI teams to ensure alignment of solutions with business objectives.
• Collaborate in the design, development, and maintenance of dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that provide actionable insights.
• Participate in data modelling, KPI design, and metrics standardization across projects to ensure consistency in BI/MI outputs.
• Act as a liaison between business units, technical teams, and third-party vendors, facilitating seamless communication and understanding of project goals.
• Prepare and present findings, insights, and recommendations to stakeholders, using data visualization tools to highlight key metrics and trends.
• Work with data governance teams to define and maintain data standards and ensure adherence to data quality policies.

Key Experience Required:

• Experience as a Business Analyst, specifically on BI and MI projects.
• Demonstrated experience with BI tools.
• Strong proficiency in data visualization, KPI development, and dashboard creation.
• Knowledge of data modelling, ETL processes, and experience in working with relational databases.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex information for a non-technical audience.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
Assistant Project Manager

Are you skilled in building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and managing their needs in complex projects? Are you confident in making timely decisions and taking ownership of issue resolution within quality, safety, and budget parameters? Are you proactive in applying Health & Safety standards, including CDM and Nuclear Site License requirements, to ensure safe and compliant project delivery?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Assistant Project Manager here at Hinkley Point C!

The Opportunity

As our next Assistant Project Manager, you’ll be a key part of driving the successful delivery of detailed design engineering activities for the HPC Project, ensuring every stage of the contract lifecycle aligns with the overall project schedule. You’ll be responsible for overseeing planning and execution in line with strict safety, quality, time, and cost standards to meet project goals. As the Assistant Project Manager, your focus will be on managing RD and Nuclear Services Contracts, ensuring that all engineering deliverables are completed safely, on time, and to the highest quality standards.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary of £52,500
- £60,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.
We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you will be doing

In this role, you’ll build and sustain effective relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring their expectations are met whenever possible. You’ll also drive adherence to Health and Safety, Schedule, and Quality Assurance standards, setting an example with an unwavering commitment to nuclear professionalism and safety. You’ll take on tasks that support the broader project management team or your own professional development, contributing to the overall success of the project. Additional roles and responsibilities include:


- Maintain clear and effective communication with stakeholders, executing Project strategies within contract delivery.
- Oversee delivery of the RD & Nuclear Services Task Order, ensuring alignment with goals and standards.
- Drive safe, on-time, and on-budget delivery of key contract areas, meeting all business and technical requirements.
- Track programme progress against milestones, deadlines, budget, and funding, providing stakeholders with detailed progress reports.
- Anticipate, manage, and resolve contract-related issues within scope; identify risks and escalate issues as needed.
- Manage the interface between the Responsible Designer, Nuclear Services contract team, and HPC Technical teams.
- Identify and coordinate stakeholder involvement, including project management, document management, project controls, and commercial and technical teams.
- Report regularly on progress, highlighting key performance indicators (KPIs) and any challenges.


Who you are

We’re looking for you to hold a strong foundation in managing complex engineering or construction projects, ideally with hands-on experience in Project Management or Project Engineering. Familiarity with NEC contracts is a big plus, as is a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant science or engineering field. Additional requirements for this role include:


- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Proven coordination skills with a natural aptitude for leadership
- Good understanding of quality standards and requirements
- Effective decision-maker with the ability to escalate issues when needed
- Commercial and budget awareness
- Quick learner with a demonstrated problem-solving mindset
- Skilled in building and managing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Solid knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, including CDM and Nuclear Site License requirements
- Familiarity with power station design, ideally EPR or NPP


Applications for this role close: Thursday 7th November

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Optical Regional Sales Manager job in South West England. Zest Optical are currently looking to recruit a Regional Sales Manager for a global leader in the manufacturing of eye care solutions. Our client is a well-established business which is experiencing exceptional growth. This role will focus on the South West England region.

The Regional Sales Manager represents the company in the designated territory and is responsible for the development of profitable growth in value and volume according to the agreed budget. The role will also involve increasing market share via business consulting and building long-term relationships with existing and new customers.

Regional Sales Manager - Role

• The customer base is a mix of independent opticians, small regional/key accounts and national retail opticians.
• Must be able to work on own initiative in a fast-paced business, where every order counts and planning and preparation is key to success.
• Has the ability to open new accounts and manage relationships to grow the business from an early start.
• New business development as well as taking care of and growing the existing customer base in what has the opportunity to be one of our clients biggest revenue sales regions is both exciting and challenging and for the right person they will achieve a great sense of personal achievement.

Regional Sales Manager - Requirements

• Previous experience in the optical industry (Dispensing Optician/Practice Manager)
• Ideally B-2-B sales experience in a closely-related industry
• Tenacious, hungry, passionate for success and has the ability to grow within the company

Regional Sales Manager - Salary

• Base salary up to £32.5k
• Excellent bonus scheme
• Company car and a range of additional benefits

To avoid missing out on this opportunity please click on the Apply Now button below.

A community based independent Opticians based in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, are looking for a full or part time Optometrist to join the team

Optometrist - Role

• Modern independent Opticians with 2 testing rooms
• Only independent in the area with an excellent reputation for patient care
• Established for over 25 years
• Beautiful rural location close to the Snowdonia mountains and coast
• 35 min tests
• OCT, Humphries VFA
• Working 3, 4 or 5 days a week
• Practice opening times from 9am to 5pm (4.30pm on a Fri)
• No weekend work
• Base salary between £55,000 to £65,000
• Chance to complete additional accreditations in the future
• Potential leadership role available in the future
• Develop close relationships with patients
• Fantastic work life balance

Optometrist - Requirements

• GOC registered Optometrist
• WECS accredited
• Patient focused
• Keen to learn and gain additional accreditations
• Must be calm, comfortable and confident at all times when talking to patients

To avoid missing out on this opportunity, please send your CV across to Rebecca Wood using the 'Apply' link as soon as possible.

Your new company
A well established OEM in Gloucester is seeking to add a Production Planner to their team due to increased demand for their goods. With a positive reputation in the local market, this business can be considered as an employer of choice.

Your new role
As the Production Planner, you will be reporting to the Production Planning Manager with a dotted reporting line into the Head of Supply Chain. You will be expected to manage the production schedule whilst using their integrated software, SAP. As this role is a linchpin to their operation, you will be expected to manage upwards amongst your peers, think quickly, and adapt to changes within the production facility. You will need to communicate clearly with multiple divisions, including Materials, Sales, Production, Engineering, and Logistics.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in your application for the Production Planner vacancy, you must have proven experience of working as a Production Planner, Materials Scheduler, Demand Planner or a similar role within the Supply Chain. Ideally, you'll have worked with SAP or a similar integrated MRP / ERP system previously. It would be highly advantageous to have worked within the Aerospace supply chain, but this isn't crucial to the success of your application.

What you'll get in return
As the Production Planner, you'll receive 25day annual leave (+8 BH) on top of your salary, which will be between £35,000 and £45,000 (dependent upon your experience). This business offers a great pension scheme, as well as multiple salary sacrifice benefits.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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IPS Group is excited to be working with one of the leading names in the regional insurance market who are currently winning large amounts of new business as well as prestigious insurance industry awards. This is working for a company which is clearly going places. It not only offers a great working environment and culture it also offers excellent benefits and salary.

As a Property and Casualty Underwriter you will focus predominantly on new business. You will be contributing to team trading results through effective underwriting and trading and through building dynamic underwriting relationships with brokers.

Role and Responsibilities

• Delivering planned financial results through the effective underwriting of cases.
• Building effective trading relationships with Brokers through trading activity - being recognised as a positive trading partner.
• Identifying poorly performing accounts and investigating reasons for lack of retention.
• Contributing to the improvement of profitability by implementing actions agreed with brokers to improve account performance.

To be considered you will need to have commercial underwriting experience either at Underwriter level currently or Assistant Underwriter with a proven technical understanding. You will be rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

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Your new company
Hays are working with a long-standing, professional services client here in Central Bristol to recruit a Finance Business Partner on a permanent basis.

Your new role
Working as part of the core finance team, this is an out-and-out business partnering role, providing financial information and analysis to support various business functions in decision-making. Key aspects of the role include:

• Provide timely, relevant and robust analysis and data to support strategic decision-making, challenging ideas where needed.
• Lead on financial modelling for projects and manage commentary on progress made.
• Own budgeting and forecasting process in line with the group timetable.
• Manage the relationship and communication with key stakeholders throughout the budgeting process.
• Work with the wider finance function to ensure reporting is done on time and accurately.
• Present monthly results to relevant stakeholders.
• Manage an assistant business partner and support them in training and development.

What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for a qualified accountant, ideally with relevant post-qualification experience. Ideally, this will be from a professional services organisation, but other industry experience would be considered. Ideally, you will have had experience of managing junior members of staff and have the ability to build strong relationships across the business. In addition, it would be beneficial if you had strong modelling and excellent skills and exposure to Power BI would be an added bonus.


What you'll get in return
This is a large international business with an excellent reputation and good opportunities to progress across the business. The office is centrally located, easily commutable from Bristol and the surrounding areas, although there is no parking. There are good benefits and plenty of options for hybrid working.


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk