Project Manager

Our IT client is looking for a tenacious Project Manager in Ireland who can help deliver a global EPoS project. The incumbent needs to be experienced to be part of a large programme with good knowledge of staging and liaise with 3rd parties for successful implementation and rollout of EPoS terminals.

Responsibilities:

* Effective management of the project baseline.

* Defines the project requirements, ensuring that the requirements catalogue traceability matrix is complete.

* Manages the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role. Operates along the company's working practices ensuring compliance with local project management policy and procedure.

* Manages the production of the required products and the delivery of the project in partnership with the customer and business unit to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service.

* Manages the delivery of the project/multiple projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service .

* Operates within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure and methodology where this is in place.

* Gathers status reports of team members across their projects and addresses issues as appropriate.

* Establishing and reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.

* Manages business and project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the parties.

Key Skills/experience:

• Sound knowledge of the Staging process. This includes equipment ordering through to pre-builds and logistics of delivering to multiple sites (simultaneously).
• Good organisational skills regarding equipment and resources, ensuring that the equipment has been delivered and the install is correctly resourced.
• Excellent skills at following a run-book type approach to the install process which must be completed in a very tight time window. (includes removal of existing kit and the installation of new kit).
• The individual needs to be flexible as all installs take place either at night or at weekends.
• Some site visits may be called for (receipted expenses will be reimbursed)
• Excellent Customer communications skills, ensuring the Customer and the support teams are kept informed at all times through the process.
• Excellent team player, working with the Engineering teams and the wider programme team.

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