Job Title: | Project Manager - Contract Role - London |
Contract Type: | Contract |
Location: | London |
Industry: | |
Salary: | Negotiable |
REF: | PP/C/PM/CK_1626366323 |
Contact Name: | Chaitra Katkar |
Contact Email: | chaitra.katkar@projectpeople.com |
Job Published: | almost 3 years ago |
Job Description
Project Manager - Contract Role
Job Purpose
Lead the development and end to end delivery of a specific project to achieve cost, time, quality and safety objectives in accordance with the requirements of the RSIT delivery lifecycle, governance and company standards.
Key Accountabilities
- Accountable for shaping the project to drive optimum delivery of outputs, including planning at the level appropriate to the complexity of the project, structuring and sequencing appropriate sets of tasks/activities.
- Effectively leads the project delivery team and oversees suppliers, dependencies, milestones, and risks and issues in accordance with standards and guidelines, as described in the operating model and delivery lifecycles.
- Monitors and reviews the project delivery budget, costs, resourcing and drives governance arrangements to support appropriate reporting.
- Manages risk, working with the business and using effective stakeholder management to agree common understanding to mitigate and reduce risk.
- Maintains relationships with key customers and stakeholders, making sure effective and robust communication plans are agreed and in place.
- Identifies and implements quality and efficiency improvement initiatives for the project supporting lean delivery.
- Supports business transformation programmes and helps drive delivery performance improvements across the project.
- Lead the stakeholders within the project team to meet the project deliverables.
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Experience in leading project management and delivery
- Proven track record in delivering successful, complex IT projects with an element of business change
- Significant knowledge of project management principles, methods, techniques, tools and emerging trends.
- Proven experience in management of customer expectations, senior stakeholders and developing strong relationships across the business.
- Strong leadership skills, motivating and inspiring confidence in others.
- High levels of flexibility, adaptability and broad thinking.
- Proven track record in supplier management and commercial acumen
- Knowledge and experience of applying a range of delivery/ development life cycles, e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Iterative
- Strong financial management skills including quality forecasting
Desirable
- Knowledge of/experience in the UK rail industry or equivalent.
- Formal Programme/Project Management qualifications (e.g. APM/P - Certified Project Manager, , Prince 2)
Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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