Project Manager
Posted 5 days ago by Thrive IT Systems
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager will oversee the delivery of medium-sized projects within the Build and Operate workstream, focusing on system integrations, product optimization, and automated workflows. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to define business outcomes, monitor program progress, and ensure effective quality assurance. The Project Manager will also be responsible for managing project risks, producing project plans, and ensuring successful project outcomes within budget and timelines. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Project Managers, key control owners, and stakeholders to define clear business outcomes and requirements.
- Attend governance forums and provide program insight, capturing actions and working with teams to close them.
- Develop and support business case submissions and proactively monitor program progress.
- Resolve issues and initiate corrective actions as required, ensuring effective quality assurance.
- Articulate and capture risks and dependencies between program and function streams.
- Produce full project plans, define project requirements, and deliver user test plans.
- Manage governance processes to support system delivery and operational processes.
- Produce updated operational processes to support new features and tooling.
- Manage project approach and build stakeholder buy-in around project plans and changes.
- Produce project status reports and manage all project delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Work with Programme managers to align project activities with wider program objectives.
- Be the main contact for respective projects and track/manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Deliver successful project outcomes, ensuring projects are on time and within budget.
- Contribute to and agree on business transition plans, ensuring all delivery expectations are met before handover to BAU.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in delivering cloud-based solutions.
- Experience in technology delivery in a complex organization.
- Experience in business requirements definition and testing.
- Delivery of business process documentation.
- Excellent planning and reporting skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Flexibility to manage workload and support aggressive delivery timelines.
- Quick learner with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in English.
- Ability to facilitate escalations to senior management.
- Mandatory skills: Stakeholder Management, Project Financial Management, Risk/Crisis Management.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Primary Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Project Managers key control owners and stakeholders to define clear business outcomes requirements and ensure these remain traceable throughout the delivery of the initiative
- Attend various governance forums and provide programme insight.
- Capture actions on behalf of members and work with relevant teams stakeholders to close them in a timely manner
- Develop and support business case submissions
- Proactively monitor the programme progress and communicate to all stakeholders
- Resolve issues and initiate corrective action as required
- Ensure effective quality assurance
- Articulate and capture risk and dependencies between programme and function steams etc
Standard Responsibilities
- The Project Manager will be responsible for delivering a range of medium sized projects across Build and Operate workstream to support key system integrations product optimization and automated workflows for education controls key cybersecurity priorities
- Produce full project plans
- Define project requirements
- Produce and deliver user test plans
- Manage required governance processes to support system delivery and operational processes eg External Hosting Committees and Data Visa
- Produce updated operational processes to support new features and tooling
- Manage the project approach building stakeholder buy in around the project plan commitments and changes
- Produce project status reports and ad hoc reporting requirements on the health of the projects
- Proactively manage all project delivery risks issues and dependencies
- Work with Programme managers to ensure project activities are aligned to wider programme objectives
- Be the main contact for respective projects across the wider programme
- Track and manage risks throughout the lifecycle of the project
- Deliver successful project outcomes ie ensuring it is on time and within budget
- Contribute to and agree business transition plans including handover criteria ensuring all delivery expectation are meet before handing final activities to BAU
Knowledge Qualifications Experience
- Technical Skill Set Required
- Strong experience in delivering cloud based solutions
- Experience in technology delivery in a complex organisation
- Experience in business requirements definition and testing
- Delivery of business process documentation
- Excellent planning and reporting skills
- Soft Skill Required
- Ability to work in fast paced environment and everchanging priorities and having extremely flexible to manage workload
- Able to support aggressive delivery timelines without compromising on quality
- Quick learner
- Work with different stakeholders Vendors Project Manager ITSO ITSO Delegates Support teams resolve all technical queries in timely manner
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal English
- Facilitate escalations to senior management
Skills Mandatory Skills : Stakeholder Management, Project Financial Management, Risk/Crisis Management