Head of Projects
Reading/Exeter/Remote (UK only)
Line Manager: Anna Stevenson
Closing Date 21/11/2024
The Opportunity
The Head of Projects is a senior position within Landmark and plays a pivotal role in both the strategy and provision of Landmark Group products, applications, tools and services to our customers.
The purpose of this role is to deliver business requirements as requested of PMO by Landmark Growth and Search Divisions through project vehicles, establish such and assign project managers as needed.
The Head of Projects oversees the successful completion of multiple complex internal Landmark Group projects within a division and will take a key role in supporting the Lead Product Managers in setting the strategy for delivering priority Products. Their primary duties include setting programme goals, tasks and timelines, reviewing progress and making adjustments as necessary.
This role has line management responsibility for the project managers and is expected to complete regular one to ones with each member of their team along with full PDR processes twice a year.
About You
To be successful as the Head of Projects you will need to have exceptionally high levels of communication and documentation skills to ensure performance and escalations are reported proportionately and that leadership
This role also has line management responsibility for the project managers and is expected to complete regular one to ones with each member of their team along with full PDR processes twice a year. As a senior manager in the business, you would be expected to lead by example, upholding the very best of the Remarkable Values helping the team adopt the principles and setting aside time to support the team as needed. You will also need/be:
- Strong planning and organizational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously, while balancing business priorities and quality
- Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss, and explain issues coherently and logically, both in writing and verbally with both technical and non-technical teams.
- Influential and persuasive, with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams, and build successful relationships at all levels
- Able to foster collaborative and inclusive teams in which people are empowered to perform at their best
- Substantial experience and expertise in agile delivery techniques and methodologies to ensure continuous improvement and delivery of products and services
- Balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach
- Critical thinker, with strong problem-solving skills, project management skills, scheduling, and resource management
- An eagerness and passion to learn, instilling the same passion in your teams.
- Strong knowledge of leadership concepts, practices, and techniques especially change management and leading culture change
What We Do
Landmark Information, part of the Daily Mail General Trust, is the UK’s leading provider of land and property search information, including digital mapping, environmental risk reports and sophisticated property management tools to all property professionals such as Architects, Surveyors, Lenders, Environmental Consultants and Estate Agents. Giving access to the largest repository of professional mapping and data in the UK – including, small and large scale digital mapping and data, GIS, historical maps, aerial photography and site intelligence reports, together with high-quality environmental risk and planning information. our focus on quality data enables us to provide unrivalled expertise and solutions that create peace of mind for our customers. We work closely with industry leaders including Ordnance Survey, the Environment Agency, the Coal Authority and the British Geological Survey which enables Landmark to offer the most accurate data and information which has established Landmark as one of the largest geographical information databases in Europe.
