Senior Project Manager
2 Years Fixed Term Contract
Southampton
Overview:
In this role you will be successfully managing and delivering multiple concurrent, large, or technically complex ICT projects and programmes that achieve long-term, strategy-aligned outcomes.
You will be expected to collaborate closely with senior staff to establish governance frameworks and drive decision-making processes that support project planning and delivery, ensuring they are in line with strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
- Manage project teams, stakeholders, finances, procurement's and benefits to deliver successfully within agreed timescales.
- Priorities, tolerances and escalations across multiple work streams while complying with project and technical architecture frameworks.
- To be responsible for projects and programmes as agreed with the line manager. These activities will be large, business critical and possibly ambiguous in nature.
- Communicate change with a wide cross section using current and new communication methods as required. Stakeholders will include senior staff and external stakeholders.
Requirements/Experience
- MS Dynamics CRM delivery experience
- Experience with Higher Educational Applications
- PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent professional Project Management qualification.
- Significant demonstrable experience of managing programmes or multiple dependent projects that deliver outcomes with large teams.
- Demonstrable experience of tracking and forecasting project finances.
- Able to work autonomously, yet collaboratively with senior stakeholders to plan and manage major new projects or programmes, ensuring plans complement broader organisational strategy.
- Able to review and contribute to road maps and future plans using an understanding of long term aims and needs.
- Plan projects and/or programmes and maintain multiple plans to control activity and communicate project progress to a wide audience.
- Deliver to time, budget and quality expectations of project boards.
- Able to develop understanding of longstanding, technically complex or ambiguous problems and to apply professional knowledge and experience to solve them.
- Able to liaise with staff in technical and business areas affected by your projects so that work remains aligned to business need and project status is communicated effectively.
- Use Microsoft Office 365 applications including: Outlook, Visio, Excel, Word, MS Project and Project Online
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.