Project and Resource Director

Permanent 

London

Hybrid - 3 Days In Office - 2 Days Remote

This role is mainly office-based, you would also be working from client sites and from home, as required.

£70,000 - £80,000

Our client who specialises in Intelligent Automation and Content Management is seeking a hands-on Agile Projects and Resource Director to manage and deliver challenging IT and business projects that will keep their delivery team producing successful projects.

Working across a wide variety of clients, programmes, projects and tasks, leading multi-skilled through all stages of the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will need to be comfortable being the expert in the room from a delivery perspective.

The role also manages other project managers, their workloads, supporting and mentoring them and always promotes delivery excellence. The role is responsible for making the correct commercial decision, in conjunction with the operations Director, for the benefit of the company, whilst also enabling our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and lead the way on how to approach a given programme of work or project
• Build relationships easily and always communicate with clarity and certainty
• Lead entire project programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
• Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
• Track the financial health of your projects and your teams through burn reports and reconciliations
• Manage resource bookings for your and your teams projects and work with other departments to secure the correct resource
• Ensure the team is trained and delivers at the correct level and with the relevant training accreditations and become a centre of excellence
• Facilitate the necessary business change management required to complement the implementation of new software solutions across the client.

Experience Required:

• Ability to manage complex, cross-function, multi-channel projects influencing quality, budgets and timings
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to manage, understand and report on financial health of projects
• Proven track record of being the lead PM within a team and being able to show effective people leadership and a desire to develop more inexperienced PM’s
• Extensive experience in the management of the full project lifecycle ranging from BA Analysis, design, implementation, testing cycles, training and production readiness
• Extensive experience and proven technical background in delivering technical and business projects, software customisation and delivery experience will be a plus
• Experienced Agile practitioner who can deliver a significant number of complex projects with numerous data integrations. Qualified Agile practitioner would be an advantage.
• Expert knowledge and experience of relevant project management methodologies, and development life cycles e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Continuous Improvement.
• Competent in the use of project management tools (MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Devops etc)

Benefits:

• Paid holiday entitlement inclusive
• EV Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Company Pension and Company Pension Sacrifice Scheme
• Company Share Options Scheme 
• Healthcare Benefit Scheme

To be considered, please ensure you complete your application on the Computappoint website.

Services offered by Computappoint Limited are those of an Employment Business and/or Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.