Digital Project Manager

Digital Project Manager

Posted 1 week ago by idpp

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£83,000 Per year
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Hybrid
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Accruals Budgeting Business Requirements Change Management Digital Project Management Finance Management Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Organisational Skills Project Governance Project Management Stakeholder Management

Summary: The Digital Project Manager role involves overseeing small to medium-sized IT projects within an international telecommunications organization, specifically for a prominent energy company. The position requires managing project delivery from inception to implementation, ensuring quality and adherence to budget and timelines. Candidates should have experience in sectors such as nuclear, energy, construction, or manufacturing, with a focus on Engineering Change Management and IT System Integrations. The role is hybrid, requiring three days on-site work per week in Bristol.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Project manage the implementation and delivery of multiple small to medium projects to Time, Cost and Quality.
  • Plan and organise activities and related meetings across assigned projects.
  • Drive and ensure delivery of planned activities while providing delivery assurance oversight.
  • Manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies.
  • Produce the Project Delivery Plan to fulfil activities on the pipeline.
  • Manage and produce weekly project reporting and submit to a deadline.
  • Coordinate project dependency tasks between services lines within Digital and IT.
  • Support the Digital & IT finance team with overall IM finances.
  • Manage delivery of key documentation and assurance processes to ensure quality is “Right First Time.”
  • Coordinate the programme’s workstreams on a day-to-day basis on behalf of senior management.
  • Manage 3rd party Supplier resources and engagements on the Project.
  • Facilitate the appointment of project managers to the project delivery teams.
  • Ensure appropriate environment is developed to support project managers.
  • Implement systems, processes, and measures to manage exceptions and slippage.
  • Monitor overall progress and initiate corrective action as appropriate.
  • Manage dependencies and interfaces between projects and other deliveries.
  • Manage communications with all stakeholders and report progress regularly.
  • Manage project budget, costs, and accruals process using assigned tools.

Key Skills:

  • Effective leadership competencies with excellent written and oral communication.
  • Great interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage people at all levels.
  • Confident decision-making ability with good protocols for stakeholder agreement.
  • Management of multiple business change workstreams within a multi-million-pound change portfolio, preferably in IT.
  • Experience in project management, ideally in an IT technical or functional area.
  • Skilled in MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Great organisational skills.

Salary (Rate): £80,000.00 yearly

City: Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Digital Project Manager - Telecommunications and Utilities

Location: Bristol

Rate: £400 per day (outside IR35)

Duration: initial 6-month contract followed by rolling extensions

Hybrid. 3 days on site per week.

Ideal candidates will have experience within the nuclear, energy, construction or manufacturing sectors. Candidates with experience in Engineering Change Management and IT System Intergrations will be prioritised.

About the Role:

An international telecommunications organisation is seeking an experienced Digital Project Manager to help ensure a variety of small to medium sized IT related projects are delivered on time, within budgets and to a high degree of quality. You will work for the organisation on a project for a renowned international energy company. You will be assigned to a number of project and report to a Senior Projects / Programme Manager who will support and be a point of escalation. You must have suitable practical experience of project managing technical and functional change at workstream level from inception to implementation on complex projects. You will work with a group of experienced Consultant and Contractors from different organisations. You will also develop and nurture relationships with business counterparts to and ensure that they become “the voice of the business” to enable the design teams to accurately understand business requirements, ways of working and desired outcomes. You will be required to work closely with the business within the project governance structure and establish and maintain effective relationships with all key stakeholders. They will need to balance time and priorities in their work activities on a continuous basis.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working within the Digital and IT Team, project manage the implementation and delivery of multiple small to medium projects to Time, Cost and Quality.
  • Plan and organise the activities and related meetings and touchpoints across the projects assigned to them.
  • Drive and ensure delivery of the planned activities whilst providing delivery assurance oversight.
  • Manage the Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies.
  • Produce the Project Delivery Plan to fulfil activities on the pipeline.
  • Manage and produce weekly project reporting and submit to a deadline.
  • Coordinate project dependency tasks between services lines within Digital and IT.
  • Support the Digital & IT finance team with the overall IM finances.
  • Manage the delivery of key documentation and assurance processes to ensure quality is “Right First Time”.

Main Accountabilities

Within a small to medium scale projects,co-ordinates the programme’s workstreams, on a day-to-day basis on behalf of senior management, to ensure maximum efficiency in the allocation of common resources and skills. Manages 3rd party Supplier resources and engagements on the Project Facilitates the appointment of project managers to the project delivery teams and manages their assignment Ensures that the appropriate environment is developed to support project managers, including the processes and practices for managing projects utilising Digital and IT delivery best practice. Ensures that there is efficient allocation of common resources and skills within the project portfolio Implements systems, processes, and measures to ensure that exceptions, slippage and issues of priority are effectively managed, and that extra activities are initiated wherever gaps in the programme are identified Monitors overall progress and initiates corrective action, as appropriate, to ensure that deliverable is produced on time, within budget and to acceptable quality Manages both the dependencies and the interfaces between there projects and other deliveries Manages the communications with all stakeholders Reporting progress of the project at regular intervals to the Sponsor, Steering Group or Senior Management Manages the project budget, costs and accruals process using assigned tools and processes.

Knowledge & Experience

Effective leadership competencies with excellent written and oral communication Great interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage people at all levels Confident decision-making ability with good protocols for gaining stakeholder agreement where necessary Management of multiple business change workstreams operating within a multi-million-pound change portfolio, preferably in an IT environment Experience in project management, ideally in an IT technical or functional area Skilled in MS Project, Word, Excel and PowerPoint - Great organisational skills

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