Editorial Project Manager
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Are you looking for your next move into a project management role that helps make a real difference? We are currently looking for a number of people to join our team on either a permanent of fixed term basis, and contribute to the publishing of standards that make our world a better place.
Your role will be to manage the delivery of a portfolio of standardization projects that provide tailored solutions for clients from a diverse range of market sectors. This typically involves managing stakeholders through the drafting, development and publication processes of national and client-sponsored standards and other client-sponsored standardization services such as research and scoping projects. You will be building strong relationships with clients and facilitating the development of consensus-based publications with manufacturers, consumers, regulators and other stakeholder groups.
The role suits candidates with a love of problem solving and the communication skills to bring differing views together. It requires the proven ability to quickly assimilate and analyse client, industry and project information; deliver multiple projects to client expectations; and ensure the quality of the output throughout the process. You will chair meetings with industry stakeholders and facilitate consensus building, as well as run scoping workshops, and so requires the ability to engage with, listen to and play back technical discussions. Throughout the project excellent communication and influencing skills will be needed.
Do you believe the world deserves excellence?
As the leading global business standards company BSI helps 80,000 clients worldwide to improve their businesses. From business continuity to recycling waste, from medical devices to the exploration of space, we help businesses embed the habits of excellence so that they perform better, manage their risks more effectively and achieve sustainable growth and in doing so we touch the lives of many across the globe.
What we offer
We offer a highly competitive starting salary with 27 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days, company-paid private medical insurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle. Plus, as we’re situated just above Gunnersbury Tube station it makes for a really easy commute, or you can use the free on-site parking if you’d prefer to drive.
About You
- Extensive experience of technical editing and rewriting.
- Experience of managing multiple projects.
- Excellent communication skills, including ability to authoritatively chair meetings, engage clients and stakeholders and present confidently to multiple audiences on familiar products and processes.
- Ability to understand customer requirements and provide an exceptional customer experience.
- Excellent command of word processing and project management tools, such as Word, Excel, Project and SAP.
Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.
To protect our candidates and BSI employees during the Covid-19 outbreak, all interviews will take place remotely.
So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as an Editorial Project Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.