Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location: Crewe

Duration: 31/12/2024

£500p/d Outside IR35

Our well renowned client who are manufacturers and marketers of luxury cars and SUVs, are currently on the market for a Senior Project Manager. The role is a hybrid role (2 days in 3 days from home). The position aims to run until December 2024 with the potential to extend.

Scope of Service

• Responsible for the planning, co-ordinating, controlling and successful delivery of small to large Projects (potentially running in parallel and with different resources) utilising the Bentley Delivery Framework and appropriate IT processes.
• Ensuring that the allocated Projects are successfully executed and delivered to achieve the agreed business outcome, with appropriate monitoring and controls in place and that benefits stay aligned with agreed business outcomes and company strategy.
• Responsible for building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business and with internal IT teams.

Key deliverables

• Plan and setup Projects using the appropriate and agreed governance and delivery methodology, ensuring alignment to the IT Delivery Framework
• Create and maintain financial and resource forecasts, onboarding resource as required, monitoring and reporting on project expenditure throughout the project lifecycle and following the Bentley Purchasing processes
• Maintain accurate Project plans during the project lifecycle, identifying internal and external project dependencies and preparing inclusive work breakdown structure (WBS) / stories
• Manage Project Risks and Issues and ensure that all risks/issues are owned, actioned and escalated as required
• Manage all change that materially alters Project scope or plan, and ensure appropriate governance is in place
• Support validation of technical solution designs to ensure they meet business needs
• Build and maintain effective project communications for the lifecycle of the project ensuring stakeholder analysis and comms plans are completed accordingly

Skills/Experiences

• Proven Project Management skills applied in work environment and knowledge of Programme Management principles.
• Experience of working within a structured project environment over the full delivery lifecycle.
• Evidence of successful delivery of strategic projects and working to time, cost, quality objectives
• Excellent influencing, negotiation, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the business and within IT
• Able to effectively plan, organise and prioritise workload across multiple projects with different stakeholders and resource
• Experienced and confident in report writing techniques and delivering presentations to senior managers
• Logical, analytical mind set & good attention to detail.
• Excellent problem solving and ability to understand and interpret complex business issues and processes.
• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills
• Innovative and creative thinking
• Able to work independently or as part of a team

Practical and Technical Knowledge

• Core Project management techniques and methods including WBS (work Breakdown Structure), CPM (Critical Path Method), Gantt cart creation, PERT, Risk and Issue Management, stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis and cost/benefit analysis
• Experience of waterfall project delivery methodologies (PRINCE2 or equivalent) and associated tools
• Experience of agile methodologies (Agile, SCRUM etc) and associated tools such as Jira / Confluence

Qualifications:

Project Management accreditation such as Prince2 and/or Agile/SAFe

What's next? If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role hit 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP, however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

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