Major Projects Manager - Southwest and Wales

Job Introduction

Are you a successful Project Manager? Do you thrive on influencing stakeholders and motivating a team? Do you take pride in writing successful proposal documents? Would you like to use your commercial acumen to maximise profit?

We are currently looking for a Major Projects Manager – Southwest and Wales to join our Commercial Management team in the Southwest and Wales region to lead and manage key client relationships and proactively manage key projects within the region driving significant value to the overall business. This is a vital role looking at both securing key projects and gaining insight from the market for the business to ensure that all opportunities are maximised. Leading the coordination and development of bid submissions to secure work on major projects that increase revenue and profit.

This is a regional role so the location is flexible to suit you. You may be in Bristol or perhaps home based in the South West or in South Wales. The suitable candidate will be managing projects across the region travelling as necessary.

We’re working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Role Responsibility

Reporting to the Commercial Director, the role of Major Projects Manager will be responsible for identifying potential schemes, typically larger than £50m, which require high volumes of Tarmac products and recommend projects that are best suited to Tarmac or will help the business to grow, rejecting those with unreasonable risk or low chances of success.

The role of Major Projects Manager will also:

• Matrix manage teams made up from Business Unit, Regional and Functional staff to develop and execute work winning ideas
• Help to position Tarmac as a key partner with selected customers
• Identify strategic fixed assets and suggest new / mobile assets to support increased revenue
• Produce quality pricing documents that differentiate Tarmac
• Create and maintain a network of contacts who are influencers on major projects
• Identify health and safety risks for unusual activities and support the operational teams to develop mitigation measures
• Produce insightful and concise management reports
• Develop and manage Key National Account Customer relationships developing a collaborative work winning approach to major opportunities

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for the role of Major Projects Manager will have prior experience of securing and managing projects that drive value to the business as well as developing bid submissions to secure new project work.

Suitable candidates for the Major Projects Manager role will have:

• Established project management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Confidence and proven ability to influence and persuade stakeholders at all levels both internal and external
• Ability to motivate team members in a matrix management environment
• Strong numeracy skills and commercial acumen with a good understanding of how to maximise profit
• Experience writing successful quality submissions and proposal documents
• Ability to call on a network of contacts in customer organisations to support work winning (preferred)

This is a mobile role and a company car/car allowance is provided so a full UK driving licence is essential.

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters.  We want to get to know you.  If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer.

Why Us

In addition to the role of Major Projects Manager we also offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives and benefits including:

• Company car/car allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc.(REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
• Training and development opportunities

Interested? Why not click here to find out more?  Go on… are you ready to build your future?

Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when this happens we sometimes bring the published closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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Tarmac Trading Limited

Tarmac Trading Limited