IT Project Manager
Location: Hybrid
Contract Type: Contractor
To help Group IT deliver its change objectives, we need contract project managers to come work on and lead projects within our high-profile programmes of work. In this busy and exciting position, you will have full responsibility for the delivery of several projects within a particular programme. You will be accountable for the definition, documentation, and successful delivery of projects of varying complexity - ensuring time, cost and quality parameters are agreed, monitored, and met.
The management of virtual project teams, financial budgets, risks and issues and stakeholder management – will be top of your agenda, therefore strong leadership skills with a positive, proactive, flexible approach and can-do attitude will be key.
Ensuring allocated projects are delivered to agreed timescales and cost, fit for purpose and successfully handed over to the support teams within agreed service levels.
Leading virtual project teams and ensuring they are motivated, focussed on the right tasks, aware of their specific timescales and playing their part in the overall project.
Maintaining knowledge of agreed Agile methodology and tools used within the department, ensuring projects operate within agreed tolerances, processes, and SLA’s.
Tracking risks, issues, actions and budgets accurately during the lifecycle of projects – escalating issues where appropriate to the project sponsor
Ensuring all resources required for projects are proactively scheduled with the appropriate resource managers.
Ensuring any third-party relationships required to deliver projects are managed effectively from both a commercial and delivery perspective.
Creating all project documentation including mandates, project plans, highlight reports, closure and lessons learnt documents.
Providing up-to-date and accurate project status information to the Project Sponsor on a regular basis
Complying with all IT policies and processes whilst seeking opportunities to improve the efficiency of both where applicable.
With some previous significant experience, you will have a CV that demonstrates successful delivery, ideally in an agile environment. You will have a proven track record of managing both large single projects and multiple concurrent smaller projects whilst controlling commercial and budgetary aspects in large organisations.
Background in ITSM platform implementations, strong budgetary skills and strong planning skills with a driven mentality.