Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Marcus
Prepared for your Senior Project Manager Discovery
What stands out
Almost everything Marcus chooses to talk about circles back to ownership. Specifically: thrives when trusted with meaningful ownership.
It matters here because decision making happens close to delivery teams — the same ground, reached from the other direction.
Recommended next step
Meet Marcus
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Thrives when trusted with meaningful ownership — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Revisited deliberately, and Marcus did not soften it.
Leadership
Marcus keeps returning to this without being asked: consistently prefers supportive leadership over hierarchical management.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful telecoms impact. It has shaped what Marcus has moved towards, not just what they say.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Marcus. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Marcus's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £94,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Marcus is currently a Head of Delivery, based in Reading, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly telecoms, media and technology.
Marcus has moved from Programme Manager to Head of Delivery over 16 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.