Kingswood Group are pleased to be supporting an Essex based organization with the recruitment of a temporary Housing Management System Project Manager for an 18 month period.
This role will be remote but travel to the Basildon office will be required twice a month so candidates will need to consider this when applying.
The main purpose of this role is to own the Housing Management System replacement project from inception, through procurement to delivery into live ensuring all relevant rules are adhered to including change control, procurement and budget control.
Key duties:
- To be responsible for the successful delivery of the HMS project on time, budget and to quality standards. To monitor, report and review the management of the project.
- To lead a medium sized procurement activity to ensure the correct product is purchased to meet the needs of the housing service.
- To carry out post implementation reviews, identifying further opportunities for benefits realisation.
- Prepare detailed and realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and track activities, costs and resource usage against project schedules, providing regular reports to appropriate stakeholders and intervening to handle deviations from plan.
- To liaise with service owners and senior management team
- To coordinate allocated resources to ensure clarity of expectations and tasks that need to be carried out.
- To design and implement a rigorous training programme in conjunction with service subject matter experts and external contractors.
- To drive continuous improvement with service leads to ensure that the service provided by the ICT Service is an exemplar service.
- Identify, record and manage risks associated with the work, which are likely to be complex with significant impact, across more than one functional area and/or on partners
Ideal experience:
- Extensive experience in procurement management for public sector projects
- Knowledge of Housing services/Management within a Local Authority or RSL environment.
- Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale procurement projects.
- Experience of writing technical specification documents to inform procurement activities
- Experience of creating and maintain positive relationships with suppliers
- Strong knowledge (minimum of 5yrs experience) of Prince II, Agile or alternative IT project delivery tools and aids.
- A good working knowledge of analysing Risk and Risk mitigation techniques within the public sector.