Role: Project Manager
Location: Knutsford
Duration: until June 30th
Contract Inside IR35
Job description:
* Managing all projects and programmes being delivered across the Core Platforms of Tallyman
* To define and own the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance continuous delivery of change projects.
Key Accountability
* Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management
* Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team
* Own the issues / blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying / managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate)
* Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
* Vendor relationship management – running RFP’s and contract management
* Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
* Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality. Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained / changes managed in line with expectations
* Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely / pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
* Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
* Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries
* Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management change management method and toolkit.
* Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of Client Change Management.
* Influencing / networking – developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions.
* Analysis, creativity and innovation – able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.
* Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates.
* Ability to juggle priorities, multi-task and flawlessly execute at speed.
* Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.
* Understand and comply with the requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard, Group Change Governance framework and Group-mandated Business Change methods, standards and tools