Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

The Project Manager, within governance guidelines, is accountable for ensuring ownership, co-ordination, visibility, associated budget control and timely delivery of prioritised business change.

• Provide project leadership in order to implement initiatives into an operational status, following established release, change, and quality management principles.
• Drive projects ensuring project objectives are within agreed quality, time and cost metrics.
• Coordinate all activity on a project including business process (re)design, system design and development, training, communications, testing, business readiness & transition, rollout, handover and support.

Experience Required

• Strong sense of urgency, being able to work to tight deadlines and prioritise where necessary.
• Ability to maintain control, professionalism and momentum in stressful situations. Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and connections within the team, the business and external vendors and across the organization.
• Successful experience in change management in a large or complex organisation with particular emphasis on delivering enterprise software implementation projects in conjunction with Infrastructure delivery.
• Sound knowledge of risk management principles and practices and ways of mitigating those risks to an acceptable level.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and provide a strategic perspective.
• Demonstrated relationship management skills including the ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust and confidence with key stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent time management, organising and planning skills with a keen attention to detail
• Ability to develop strong relationship with client stakeholders of all levels
• Proactive “can do” attitude with excellent interpersonal skills, making naturally good first impressions

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in relevant project management roles, managing multiple projects.
• Strong analytical and problem solving
• Experience in managing the development and implementation of solutions for all phases of the project life cycle.
• Relevant Project Management qualification (Prince II, PMI PMBOK, Scrum).
• Proven ability to undertake and manage complex business projects to assist in driving transformational change across the business with realisable benefits.
• Experience in vendor management.

Educational Requirements

• Degree or equivalent in IT, Computing or similar engineering / accounting / science discipline.

Working Hours & Benefits

• Standard working week