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E2E Project Manager

Employer
Experis UK
Location
Shropshire
Salary
£75,000 to £82,000 per year
Closing date
25 May 2022

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Sector
Consultancy
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Function
Project Manager

We have an opportunity for a Project Manager to join Experis on a permanent basis. You will be working as part of our Employed Consultant team, on site with a multi-national technology company based in Telford. This is a chance to be part of an award-winning organisation whose key priority is investing in its people.

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

*The ideal candidate will hold active SC clearance or be SC eligible*

 

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced End to End Project Manager to join our team who is able to manage several small to medium sized Outcome or T&M based projects concurrently.

This will involve scoping the project, inputting, and helping to formulate the Statement of Work (SOW) and being responsible for the company response and subsequent delivery.

This role will be remote for the foreseeable future. Then 1-2 days per week at most if this changes.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Financial management: Accountable for the project cost base, manage project costs and forecasts and present project costs and variances with required explanations at the monthly review

Risk management: identify project and cross-project risks and dependencies.

Manage dependencies and enact risk mitigations with escalations as necessary

Change management: Manage change on the project ensuring that change is appropriately configuration managed. Identify the impactors for both customer and project initiated change requests and manage the production of accurate responses in a timely manner. Facilitate the production and distribution of any necessary tech notes and arrange impacting workshops as necessary

Customer management: Identify and maintain professional relationships with key project stakeholders. Ensure regular formal checkpoints take place with the customer and that the client is kept appraised of progress on a regular basis. Take the role of a single point of contact for the customer and attend to any ad-hoc queries. Develop trusting and professional relationships at all levels of the client organisation. Seek new opportunities to improve the client business and generate revenue.

Resource management: Work with resource managers to fully resource project and accurately forecast and record staffing demand and costs. Agree assignments and provide reviews in a timely manner. Ensure that HR policies are adhered to and that team members are released when no longer required by the project. Actively mentor and coach others within the project team

Proposal management: Good level of commercial awareness, develop and present business cases, feasibility and design proposals. Proficient at managing the impacting and estimating process for proposals and change requests.

Develop solid recommendations and solutions and assess requirements and the value delivered to the client

Communication management: Produce the project governance plan and define the project RACI matrix and organisation structure. Chair regular project checkpoints and ad-hoc meetings. Report project progress to line management, client, stakeholders and the account leadership team. Where necessary, provide clear and concise escalations to specific parties

Implementation management: Manage and direct the execution and implementation of the engagement. Ensure that the project completes the handover to Live process and engages service introduction. Raise the necessary RFC's and present the project/delivery at the Change Approval Board. Agree client acceptance criteria and trial plans and ensure that the project meets the required targets. Complete the project close-down and ensure that the project evaluation review meeting is held in a timely manner and that any actions arising are completed

 

Essential Skills and Requirements:

  • Experience working as a Project Manager, managing software and/or integration projects
  • Proven leadership and motivational skills
  • Excellent communication skills and able to operate in environments with challenging stakeholder relationships
  • Strong commercial awareness

*The ideal candidate will hold active SC clearance or be SC eligible*

The following would be an advantage but is not essential:

  • Experience delivering under fixed price arrangements
  • Experience delivering data related projects in the cloud
  • Experience of delivery using an iterative/agile methodology and collaboration tools (e.g., Agile/SCRUM, Atlassian Jira, Agile for Scrum, Confluence)
  • Understanding of agile delivery techniques e.g., Continuous Delivery/Integration, Test
  • Driven Development, and associated tooling
  • Professional Scrum Master Qualification

Suitable Candidates should submit CVs in the first instance.

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