Inside IR35 Contract £250 a day
Role: Digital IT Project Manager
Location: Bridgwater and Bristol, Flexible with Home Working
Mode: Hybrid
Job Purpose / Overview
• Working within the Digital and IT Team, project manage the implementation and delivery of multiple projects to Time, Cost and Quality.
• Plan and organise the activities and related meetings and touchpoints across the projects assigned to them
• Drive and ensure delivery of the planned activities whilst providing delivery assurance oversight
• Manage the Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies
• Produce the Project Delivery Plan to fulfil activities on the pipeline
• Manage and produce weekly project reporting and submit to a deadline
• Coordinate project dependency tasks between services lines within Digital and IT
• Support the Digital & IT finance team with the overall IM finances
• Manage the delivery of key documentation and assurance processes to ensure quality is “Right First Time”
Operating Environment
Digital & IT operates a ‘pool and assignment’ model for its Project Managers. The post-holder will be assigned to projects for finite periods and report to either a Program Manager, Projects Delivery Manager, Sub Portfolio Manager and Business Sponsor / Head of Function, who will provide support and a point of escalation. For any assignment, the Project Manager will be required to work closely with the business within the project governance structure and establish and maintain effective relationships with all key stakeholders. They will need to balance time and priorities in their work activities on a continuous basis. Where guidance is required on priorities, it should usually be sought from the Program Manager, Portfolio Manager, Head of Function, or a senior business stakeholder.
The Project Manager should have 10+ years practical experience of project managing technical and functional change at workstream level from inception to implementation on complex projects. They will be working with a group of experienced Consultant and Contractors from different organisations. The t PM will also provide oversight and assurance to the Programme Manager that the right activities are taking place to successfully deliver to co-incide with key programme milestones. The postholder will develop and nurture relationships with business counterparts to and ensure that they become “the voice of the business” to enable the design teams to accurately understand business requirements, ways of working and desired outcomes.
Principal Accountabilities (Outputs of the Job – Activities & Decisions)
Within a small to medium scale projects, co-ordinates the programme’s workstreams, on a day to day basis on behalf of senior management, to ensure maximum efficiency in the allocation of common resources and skills.
• Manages 3rd party Supplier resources and engagements on the Project
• Facilitates the appointment of project managers to the project delivery teams and manages their assignment
• Ensures that the appropriate environment is developed to support project managers, including the processes and practices for managing projects utilising Digital and IT delivery best practice.
• Ensures that there is efficient allocation of common resources and skills within the project portfolio
• Implements systems, processes, and measures to ensure that exceptions, slippage and issues of priority are effectively managed, and that extra activities are initiated wherever gaps in the programme are identified
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
• Effective leadership competencies with excellent written and oral communication
• Great interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage people at all levels
• Confident decision-making ability with good protocols for gaining stakeholder agreement where necessary
• Management of multiple business change workstreams operating within a multi-million pound change portfolio, preferably in an IT environment
• Experience in project management, ideally in an IT technical or functional area
• Skilled in MS Project, Word, Excel and PowerPoint - Great organisational skills
• Significant experience of successfully taking projects from inception to completion, including inputting into the Investment Case creation
• Experience of enhancements to in-service enterprise platforms. Particularly beneficial if experience is with Document and Record Management, Product Lifecycle Management or Asset Management systems
• Ability to manage multiple third-party suppliers in a matrix organisation, ensuring clear RACI, correct scoping in task orders and effective reporting and management of tasks to deliver the project plan
• Experience conducting project financial management in SAP, from raising Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders, to Goods Receipting and managing project finances as agreed with Governance team and Project Sponsor.
• Previous experience in Engineering Change Management and IT System Integration is essential
• Previous experience in nuclear, energy, construction or manufacturing is desirable
• Flexibility to work from home or from Bridgwater / HPC site as needed and to work as needed to keep the workstream on schedule.