Overview

Job Purpose / Overview
• Working within the Digital and IT Team, project manage the implementation and delivery of multiple 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"

Responsibilities

Principal Accountabilities
• Within a small to meduim scale projects, co-ordinates the programme's workstreams, on a day to day basison 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 are
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.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & 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
• Significant experience of successfully taking projects from inception to completion, including inputting into
the Investment Case creation
• Experience of enhancements to in-service enterprise platforms. Particularly beneficial if experience is with
Document and Record Management, Product Lifecycle Management or Asset Management systems
• Ablility to manage multiple third-party suppliers in a matrix organisation, ensuring clear RACI, correct scoping in task orders and effective reporting and management of tasks to deliver the project plan
• Experience conducting project financial management in SAP, from raising Purchase Requisitions and
Purchase Orders, to Goods Receipting and managing project finances as agreed with Governance team and
Project Sponsor.
• Ability to brief clearly and confidently to Director level, distilling the strategic decisions, risk and
considerations from fine-grain technical detail