BPMo Graduate

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BPMO Graduate Programme

The Bid and Programme Management (BPM) stream within the Thales Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) Graduate Development Programme (GDP) has been designed to provide a diverse and robust understanding of bid and project management capability within Thales GTS.

The BPM Graduate Development Programme is a 2 year rotational programme, comprising BPM skills and leadership training alongside three work placements. During this time you will gain experience within a number of different roles and business areas, developing a variety of bid and project management skills and competencies. Upon completion of the programme the aim is to be placed into a permanent role within the Bids and Project Management (BPM) function. The focus of this role will be either, Project Planning & Control, Project Management or Bid Management as the starting point of your BPM career.

The BPM GDP offers graduates the opportunity to study towards a formally recognised international certification in Project Management, and engage with the wider project management profession with the Association of Project Managers (APM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

Location: Flexibility on your location is required for this role, however your main location will be London.

Key responsibilities:

- Undertake bid and project management activities in support of the Bid and Project Management Team to ensure the successful delivery of the project
- Assist with the creation of bids and proposals
- Assist with the creation and maintenance of the project schedule; generate, maintain and monitor the progress of work packages; establish the schedule impact of work being complete/not complete against project milestones
- Support with updating budgetary information; updating resource information and validating the derived resource profiles
- Provide assistance for the provision of governance and support on project schedule generation, structuring and reporting
- Administer and maintain the project risk and opportunity register
- Provide support in performance measurement and variance reporting
- Provide assistance to the nominated Project Manager and their team for the extraction and coordination of data for reporting or analysis purposes

Skills, qualifications and experience:
To ensure the successful delivery of our projects you would need to enjoy working to tight deadlines, so if you are highly organised, able to prioritise and work flexibly then a career in BPM could be for you Collaboration is also extremely important, we are looking for people who demonstrate leadership capability but are also able to work as a team with a strong delivery focus. We work in a fast-changing environment so the ability to work proactively and adapt are also important.

Please note that Graduate Development Programme (GDP) activities take place during the working week but may require the investment of some personal time for travel and follow-up activities. You may have the opportunity to travel to Thales GTS and non-Thales GTS sites throughout the UK when participating in GDP activities.
- 11.59pm on Friday 20th January 2023_
- January 2023_
- with details of next steps._