Associate project manager apprenticeship - UCB
Cogent Ssc Limited
Slough (SL1 3WE)
Closes in 4 days (Thursday 24 April 2025)
Posted on 27 March 2025
Contents
Summary
As a critical part of the Medical Operations team and using your insights this will enable you to work across different business units within UCB and give you an opportunity to develop business operations and consulting skills.
- Wage
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£19,300 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm with 1 hour unpaid lunch break.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As a member of the team, your major duties and responsibilities will include:
- Originating eRequests for certain teams
- Contract checking
- Assist with reconciliation of eRequests
- Hard Copy Sign Off - auditing/checking and archiving
- Compass meeting administration
- Level 2 Job Bag creation
- Folder creation and structuring folders
- Uploading contracts to Contract Share
- Adding information to excel tracking spreadsheet
- Checking Unique IDs and creation
- Checking vendors are set up correctly in SAP Y001/Y007
- Extracting invoices from SAP
- Contract templates, TPI and report checking
- Checking attendances in Orbit
- Data corrections
- Pre-Disclosure response collation
- Providing data to senior leadership
You will be expected to have good accuracy, communication and data skills, which we will continue to work with you to develop further.
The hub is a newly created way of working and will give the successful candidate an opportunity to gain knowledge and understand in many aspects of the Commercial Pharma industry.
As medical operations project manager you will be supported by members of the medical team. You will have the opportunity to learn about the wider team departments including Medical Information and Medical Governance.
You will have weekly check in meetings with the UK & Ireland Head of Medical Affairs to ensure you have the support and learning opportunities you need to succeed in this role.
Where you’ll work
216 Bath Road
Slough
SL1 3WE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Your training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
- Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
- Manage and engage with stakeholders.
- Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
- Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
- Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
- Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
- Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
- Monitor and analyse project budgets.
- Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
- Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
- Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
- Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
- Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
- Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
- Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
- Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
- Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
- Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
- Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
- Work within the approved project budget.
- Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
- Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
- Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
- Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
- Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
Your training plan
- Associate project manager Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard
- Training Provider- BPP
- Qualification being delivered-Associate project manager L4 apprenticeship standard
- Delivery model - Online
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Min 5 inc. Maths English Science (grade 4/C or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
• You must have gained a minimum of 48 UCAS points or equivalent, but suitable work experience (2+ years supporting project delivery) will be considered as an alternative.
About this company
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business
- The training will expose the apprentice to a wide range of skills and competencies which would make them well placed for further study or suitable for many job opportunities in the life sciences sector
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Cogent Ssc Limited
Tom Bretherton
thomas.bretherton@cogentskills.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312438.
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Closes in 4 days (Thursday 24 April 2025)
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