Project Manager - #2197219

Working independently or as part of a programme team to provide project management expertise to deliver our products and services. You will be a flexible, self-motivated individual with experience of working on a number of concurrent projects.

• Deliver the project to agreed time, cost and quality standards
• Manage and communicate with all project stakeholders – client sponsors, client teams, third-party and internal teams
• Provide regular status updates and communications across the project team
• Co-ordination of internal/external meetings and workshops including chairing project meetings
• Preparation of material and reporting in accordance with agreed programme governance
• Maintaining/updating/ collating weekly project status reports and actions, issues and risk logs and contacting project team members appropriately
• Creation of and ongoing monitoring and management of the Project Plan
• Maintaining and monitoring resource schedules, flagging up any issues/conflicts
• Submitting the risk/issues log for review and escalating when required
• Attending meetings/workshops producing minutes and chasing up actions when required
• Management of deliverables on the project shared drive i.e. version control; deliverables tracking etc.
• Covering general administrative duties
• Supporting the Programme Manager in day to day activities required to deliver the project (if required)
• Coordinate the definition and documentation of any required Acceptance Criteria for the acceptance of solutions prior to go live
• Ensure that full impact assessment are carried out where required with the Delivery teams, within agreed timescales
• Act as an interface between the business and delivery teams, including technical teams
• Track requirements through the delivery phase and ensure delivery
• Provide assistance and support for the definition of the operational processes and procedures when required
• Assist the business to produce workarounds where requirements cannot be met fully
• Responsible for ensuring that any User Acceptance Testing approach is defined and agreed
• Support any User Acceptance Testing activity and act as the main interface between the business and technical teams
• Produce project communication plans and create and deliver communications in line with that plan

Principle Accountabilities:

• Delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality
• Production and management of key project documents e.g. PID, AIRs etc.
• Creation and management of the Project Plan
• Maintenance of the Resource Schedule
• Preparation and publication of Weekly Progress Reports
• Documented Acceptance Criteria with input from all impacted business areas
• User Acceptance Test support when required

Personal Profile:

• An exceptional focus on delivery
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Ability to grasp new concepts
• Team working
• Flexibility