Location
Belfast | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior Project Manager
Department: Project Delivery Practice
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Belfast
Description
We have an exciting vacancy for a Senior Project Manager within our PMO team.
You will successfully manage allocated multidisciplinary projects and their associated activities from conception through to completion, delivering work that meets project requirements.
You will have a strong technical background and experience managing projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. This is a remote position, (based in either UK or Ireland) but may involve some infrequent travel to customer sites.
Key Responsibilities
Successfully delivers concurrent projects with minimal supervision, or potentially a project of high complexity under guidance:
- Effectively engaging the Project Sponsor throughout, understanding the business imperatives for each project.
- Working closely and collaboratively with colleagues within the commercial and finance teams, understanding the contractual terms and financial imperatives for each project.
- Ensuring that each project is managed in a contractually compliant manner throughout; similarly verifying that the client meets their obligations.
- Establishing effective project governance and controls in line with contracted and prescribed standards.
- Maintaining focus upon the critical path.
- Focus upon meeting or exceeding commitments regarding project success criteria.
- Ensuring that a clear and objective assessment of project performance is regularly reported in line with contracted and prescribed standards.
- Escalating where required in a timely and appropriate manner.
Supports client and subcontractor engagements:
- Supporting client and subcontractor engagements within the context of a client engagement and stakeholder management structure.
- Engaging client and subcontractor stakeholders and peers, building positive relationships.
- Working creatively and positively on every project towards optimising client satisfaction.
- Being widely recognised as the “go to” person for each of their projects.
- Acting with integrity, engendering trust and confidence.
- Understanding client culture and values, adapting own and team engagement with the client.
- Understanding client business case, escalating contention between client objectives and contracted outcomes.
- Displaying and promoting our core values.
Forms and effectively manages cross-functional project teams, including subcontractor and third parties:
- Organising, and directing project teams.
- Setting and communicating clear goals and establishing priorities.
- Keeping the project team aware of the long-term objectives and focused upon the near-term deliverables.
- Maintaining an emphasis upon project success criteria.
- Challenging poor performance, seeking support where appropriate.
Understands and conforms with prescribed business governance.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
- Experience working with large enterprise organisations delivering business applications projects and understand the needs of these organisations
- Certification in Prince II, PMI, or equivalent project management methodology.
- Experience of agile development methodologies.
Advantageous:
- Degree level qualification, preferably in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- Project delivery experience to include the delivery of custom, enterprise-scale business applications using Microsoft technologies is preferable, although not essential.
- Experience of project delivery in the government, higher education, or financial services sectors.
Skills/Behavioural Competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Results focused; competitive drive and ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work on own initiative in a fast-paced environment.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritise and multi-task within the role.
- Excellent business acumen with strong analytical ability.
- Good judgement and decision-making skills.
· Experience in managing projects to minimise pressure and tight deadlines, maintaining control throughout.
· Ability to work in a very faced paced organisation with challenging deadlines.
We don’t expect you to know everything about the specific technologies we are delivering. Some of the technologies are so new, we are still learning them ourselves!
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