Project Manager
Posted Today by Ampstek
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager role in Northampton involves managing change projects to align with the organization's strategic objectives, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. The position requires effective communication with stakeholders and management of project teams, budgets, and risks. The role also includes facilitating change management activities and advising on operational effectiveness. This position may involve leadership responsibilities, emphasizing collaboration and development of team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring timely delivery within scope, budget, and quality standards.
- Development and management of project plans outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Communication with stakeholders to keep them informed about project progress and meet their needs.
- Management of project teams, ensuring proper resourcing and necessary skills for project objectives.
- Management of project budgets to ensure delivery within agreed financial limits.
- Creation of reports on project progress to ensure timely and budget-compliant solutions.
- Management of project risks, including identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication for successful implementation.
- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and ensure operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks and set objectives while coaching employees.
- Consult on complex issues and provide advice to support resolution of escalated issues.
Key Skills:
- Strong project management skills with experience in managing change projects.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Proficiency in developing project plans and managing budgets.
- Ability to identify and mitigate project risks effectively.
- Experience in change management and facilitating training activities.
- Leadership skills with the ability to coach and develop team members.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to influence decision-making and contribute to policy development.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Northampton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
JOB DETAILS
Role Title: Project Manager
Location: Northampton
Work mode: hybrid (2 days on site)
Contract duration: 6 months
Job Description
Purpose of the role
To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.
Accountabilities
- Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
- Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
- Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
- Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
- Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
- Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
- Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.