Project Manager

UK SBS

Swindon/Newport

£37,235

Full Time/Part time/Flexible

Open Ended

About us

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is a trusted shared services provider to government. We are owned by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and deliver services to our six public sector clients and their 18,000+ employees.

UK SBS provides HR & Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT business services and specialist expertise to our clients. Our people are proud of the part they play in enabling our clients to focus on their core activities and delivering value for the UK economy and taxpayers.

At UK SBS, we aim for service excellence in everything we do, whether we are ensuring people get paid accurately or delivering high profile projects on time. Our people and our values are at the heart of who we are and how we do things…Can you play a part in our success?

About the role

Some of your duties will include:

• Accountable for the successful delivery of allocated project(s) within the UK SBS Portfolio
• Establish and maintain the appropriate project governance, set up and manage delivery teams in a matrix manner and support and coach key team members in delivering the project(s) successfully
• Utilise effective project management disciplines and management techniques to ensure successful delivery, including project definition, planning and scheduling, task, risk and issue management, dependency management, change management, financial management, stakeholder management and reporting

• Agreeing plans, tasks and dependencies, identifying and escalating any major deviation from the agreed plan, and ensuring the completion of each gateway, including the deliverables, and gaining approval to start the subsequent stage
• Promote a customer-focused, team-based culture and establish an environment that strives for continuous improvement and delivers consistently high performance.

About you

You will be a Project management practitioner (eg: APM/PRINCE2, PRINCE2 AGILE) as well as have good working knowledge of Project Management frameworks, disciplines and practices.

It is essential you have good leadership skills with a proven ability to build teams and lead them to delivery successfully and proven experience of leading projects from initiation to successful completion demonstrating project management and leadership skills.

What we offer

UK SBS offer a competitive salary, a generous 28 days annual leave rising to 30 days within 3 years of service, pension scheme and other lifestyle and health care benefits.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to include a cover letter outlining their suitability for this role.

The closing date for applications is 19^th April 2021.