We are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager in London.
Pay rate: £650 per day
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week) - Hybrid role - 3 days onsite.
Contract duration: Temporary ongoing
Duties:
- Leadership of a team to bring consensus to what needs to be achieved to resolve business challenges within mid to high complexity project(s). The Senior Project Manager needs to be comfortable working across the all stages of the technology lifecycle and able to work within multiple disciplines of technology (e.g. cloud, applications, infrastructure, mobility)
- Definition and agreement of the appropriate methodologies, governance and reporting mechanisms to be used across project delivery in line with Portfolio Office standards
- Ensuring governing forums and senior stakeholders are appropriately engaged with ongoing change activity through briefings, alongside more targeted conversations to influence others and build support for delivery.
- Remote and/or in person task management of a project team within an often reactive environment with moderate to high levels of uncertainty to move towards an agreed delivery end point.
- Development of project product breakdown structures and project / work stream plans with team members, followed by monitoring and assurance activities to ensure project progress is monitored and controlled and dependencies managed.
- Proactive risk and issue management with an understanding of management levers which can be used and appropriate points at which these should be deployed.
- Managing commercial processes in conjunction with the commercial team to ensure relevant delivery contracts are in place, then subsequent contract management through the lifecycle of the project(s). The Senior Project Manager needs to understand principles around commercial management and ensure correct controls in place to deliver value for money.
- Manage communication and engagement with project stakeholders, developing and maintaining key relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing
- Implementing and managing change control across project governance. Defining change tolerance and devising the correct level of impact assessment where required.
- Manage recruitment of technical resources (many niche specialists) to assist in delivering complex technical projects.
Experience:
- Experience in project management of ICT projects within complex stakeholder/business environments.
- Excellent listening and oral skills with the ability to present information appropriately by audience.
- Organisational skills, the ability to pay attention to detail.
- In-depth experience of and competence in using MS office tools (including MS Project and Visio).
- Experience of working within secure technology-based projects and programmes enabling business change.
- Experience of managing financial budgets throughout the lifetime of a project.
- Ability to manage stakeholders of all levels and deliver their complex business requirements
- Managing risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Developing and working with audit processes and challenge functions.
- Working within business change related projects.
- Implementing document management systems and document controls and the ability to deal with sensitive information.
- An understanding of the commercial, operational, technical and supply infrastructure in which successful programmes and projects are delivered.
- Experience with government procurement processes.
- Highly self-motivated, conscientious, enthusiastic with a positive and proactive approach.
- A record of successfully supporting and delivering secure national projects on time and on budget in a complex environment which uses both in-house and supplier-based delivery method.
- An understanding and experience of how finance budgets management work.