Senior Mobilisation Manager (Large Contracts)

Following a period of rapid growth, OCS, an expert in facilities management have created an exciting new role for an experienced Major Bids senior project manager, looking to progress their career in a challenging, diverse and rewarding role of central importance to the OCS Business. 

Reporting to Head of PMO, supporting Business leaders across our OCS UK&IRE business, the role will lead, and co-ordinate the PMO response to Major Bid activity enabling the business to deliver our growth objectives in line with our 5yr strategic vision and plans ensuring our mobilisation responses to Major Bids perform in line with contractual requirements and tender specifications from conception to submission and through to go live.  

This will include working closely with our sales and business development teams as well as our senior internal stakeholders and operational teams to ensure all aspects of our major bid management & subsequent mobilisation proposals are covered to the required quality, legislative and compliance standards.  

Primary responsibilities and deliverables will include: 

• • Supporting the Head of Projects and Mobilisation and the wider Mobilisation team in the delivery of growth objectives and team goals 

  • • Documenting and improving the “as is” major bids process in support of the sales and bids teams to ensure we continually improve our major bids offering. 

  • • Overseeing the full major bids process from a PMO perspective including Initiating kick off meetings; facilitating the governance process and and documentation ensuring major bid responses are comprehensive and meet all the contractual requirements of the bid.  

  • • Co-ordinating any internal and external client and end user communications; managing the PMO response to meet objectives to time, quality, and cost; delivering project solutions to agreed methodologies and standards; coordinating any related client and end user communications; maintaining pmo project documentation. 

  • • Highlighting and actively engaging all major bid project stakeholders and maintaining close and ongoing relationships with key stakeholder through the life of major bid projects 

  • • Contribute to the building and maintenance of effective RAID logs (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) prioritising and building mitigation plans, running mitigation workshops where required to minimise impact, and escalating business critical issues in a timely manner. 

  • • Responsibility for quality management of major bids & change project deliverables 

  • • Maintaining project pipeline reporting and providing highlight reports when requested 

  • • Undertaking lessons learnt sessions upon major bid project closure and factoring in learning to drive continuous improvement processes. 

  • Maintaining business continuity & compliance plans that meet Health and Safety regulations 

Suitable candidates will demonstrate the following skills and experience: 

• • Qualified to APM or Prince 2 Practitioner level, or equivalent. 

  • • Qualified to Change Master practitioner level or equivalent. 

  • • Comprehensive experience of change management with a knowledge of Project Management Methodologies 

  • • Leading successful single, bundled & integrated FM mobilisation and transition programmes with a strong Technical Service delivery & requirements awareness. 

  • • Working within a bid environment with major bid project or major change environments managing complex transformation programmes. 

  • • Experience in creating robust business cases including cost / benefit analysis. 

  • • Portfolio / project governance expertise; financial management and reporting 

  • • Experience of project and programme reporting; managing risk, issues and dependencies and building mitigation plans 

  • Working knowledge of operational Facilities Management is essential