Project Management Consultant
Posted 2 days ago by Advanced Resource Managers
£110 Per hour
Outside
Undetermined
Luton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Management Consultant role in Luton involves providing strategic advice on accelerating procurement and operational readiness for critical capabilities. The consultant will manage high-risk operational rollouts, streamline processes, and act as a liaison among various stakeholders while ensuring compliance with safety and legal standards. This position requires experience in high-pressure project management and exceptional negotiation skills. The contract is for six months and pays up to £110 per hour, classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide advice on the acceleration of procurement and operational readiness of critical capabilities.
- Identify where existing processes can be tailored or streamlined.
- Manage high-risk operational rollouts while balancing timelines, budgets, and compliance.
- Proactively identify roadblocks and implement mitigations to prevent project failure.
- Act as the primary liaison between IPT leader, Sponsors, end-users, third-party vendors, and internal teams.
- Allocate resources efficiently and navigate dynamic cost structures.
- Ensure all final deliverables meet necessary safety, legal, and operational standards.
- Negotiate with customers for alleviation of standards where applicable.
Key Skills:
- Experience in high-pressure project management, crisis management, or urgent operational capability delivery.
- Ideally, experience with Urgent Capability Requirements (UCR) in MOD and defence programmes.
- Professional certification such as PMP or PRINCE2.
- Exceptional negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to think outside the box and pivot strategies as required.
Salary (Rate): £110.00/hr
City: Luton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Project Management
Project Management Consultant Luton 6-Month Contract Paying up to £110p/h (Outside IR35)
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advice on the acceleration of procurement and operational readiness of critical capabilities that cannot wait for standard planning or acquisition cycles.
- Identifying where existing processes can be tailored or streamlined, compressing standard acquisition cycles, and the management of high-risk operational rollouts while balancing aggressive timelines, budgets, and necessary compliance.
- Proactively identify roadblocks, execute rapid risk assessments, and implement mitigations to prevent project failure.
- Act as the primary liaison between IPT leader, Sponsors, end-users, third-party vendors, and internal teams to provide high-frequency progress reports and negotiate priorities.
- Allocate resources efficiently and navigate dynamic cost structures where time and performance outweigh strict, traditional budgetary constraints.
- Ensure that despite expedited timelines, all final deliverables meet necessary safety, legal, and operational standards.
- Where standards need not be applied, negotiate with the customer for alleviation and align internal stakeholders.
Required Experience
- Experience working in high-pressure project management, crisis management, or urgent operational capability delivery (e.g. defense, IT/infrastructure emergencies, or rapid-response supply chain).
- Ideally, have Urgent Capability Requirements (UCR) experience delivering into MOD and defence programmes.
- Hold a professional certification such as PMP (Project Management Professional) or PRINCE2.
- Exceptional negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to think outside the box and pivot strategies if required.