Head of Projects
Reading/Exeter/Remote (UK only)
What it's like to work at Landmark:
At Landmark, you'll find a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team that values bold ideas, big dreams, and active curiosity. We foster a culture of innovation, encouraging everyone to contribute to the development and direction of our products and services, while continuously seeking new and efficient ways to work.
Collaboration and sociability are at the heart of what we do, and we take pride in coming together to achieve great things.
We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth, including:
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option of adding up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
- Annual Lifestyle Allowance: £300 to spend on an activity of your choice
- Pension Scheme: Matched up to 6% for the first 3 years, and up to 10% thereafter
- Private Health Insurance: Provided by Vitality
- Group Income Protection Scheme
- Charitable Fundraising: Matched funding for your efforts
- Cycle to Work and Gym Flex Schemes
- Internal Coaching and Mentoring: Available throughout your time with us
- Training and Career Progression: A strong focus on your development
- Family-Friendly Policies
- Free Parking
Join us at Landmark and be part of a team that supports your ambitions and growth, both personally and professionally.
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
About Us
Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading Prop-Tech (property technology) businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector. We are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the property industry, being a supplier of national property-related data.
We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agency, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets. This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.