project manager Milton Keynes, England
Job description
About Us
WorkForce Software is the first global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee experience capabilities. The company’s WorkForce Suite adapts to each organization’s needs—no matter how unique their pay rules, labor regulations, and schedules—while delivering a breakthrough employee experience at the time and place work happens. Enterprise-grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software is helping some of the world’s most innovative organizations optimize their workforce, protect against compliance risks, and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency and optimal performance. Whether your employees are deskless or office workers, unionized, full-time, part-time, or seasonal, WorkForce Software makes managing your global workforce easy, less costly, and more rewarding for everyone.
Over one thousand organizations with more than 4 million users in over 80 countries rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance, reduce labor costs, provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR on a global basis.
At WorkForce the Senior Project Manager (PM) administers multiple Workforce Management client system implementations and is responsible for leading all project lifecycle stages. The Senior PM works directly with the customer project team (including senior management) to manage multiple and/or complex projects to successful project completion. They are highly organized individuals with expert communication skills and the ability to lead through influence.
Responsibilities
- Project Management
- Experience leading successful client software implementation / integration projects including complex projects and/or managing multiple projects at the same time.
- Ability to perform project control activities for complex projects including creating and maintaining detailed project plans, status reports, issue/risk/change/defect logs, etc.
- Manage the creation, execution, and analysis of Statements of Work (SOW) and Project Change Orders (PCO), including their estimates
- Develops detailed staffing plans for internal resource allocation/capacity planning; experience working with shared resources
- Demonstrates honesty and compassion for customers’ needs and the ability to manage customer expectations
- Continuous Improvement
- Makes continuous improvement a priority
- Ensures best practices, tools, and processes by following guidelines and processes established by the Center for Project Excellence competency center
- Team Development
- Maintains a culture of innovation, confidence and trust, best practice development
- Champions the promotion of integrity in all endeavors
- Assists with mentoring in both hard and soft skills required for the successful planning, execution, delivery and support of projects and their products
Requirements
- 5+ years of project management experience working with external customers
- 7+ years Project Management experience with enterprise software implementations
- 4+ years working in a consulting environment
- Entrepreneurial mindset required, as the role needs capability of rapidly shifting focus and responding to ever-changing conditions
- Strong consulting experience in Project Management
- Familiarity with or background in HR, Payroll, or Workforce Management preferred
- Knowledge of software development process and cycle
- Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies preferred
- Associated experience in project delivery and/or Project Management qualifications such as PMI, Prince2 or equivalent
- Additional languages beneficial
Travel
- Ability to travel up to 25%
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Why You Should Join the WorkForce Team?
- Flexible Hours / Work from Home Policy
- Pension
- Performance Bonus
- 25 days holiday plus birthday
- Career Development and Training – Be the CEO of your career!
- Company paid LinkedIn Learning subscription.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives including committees such as:
- Women for Inclusion
- Age: Unity Beyond Years
- Racial Equality/Discrimination
- Mental and Physical Ability
- WorkForce Pride Network
- Global Perspectives
- Band of Veterans
- Health and Wellness / Gym Reimbursement
- Private Health Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Shopping discounts
- Community Outreach Programs and Charitable Support
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, and employee will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.
To maintain our goal of remaining a diverse and inclusive company, WorkForce Software advocates for and promotes a diverse, equitable, safe, and professional workplace where all people feel welcomed and empowered. We are committed to creating an environment that supports and celebrates the full range of our individual and collective differences, so that everyone can do their best and most innovative work, on the job and in our communities.
WorkForce Software is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, WorkForce Software will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at [email protected], 1-833-987-3831.
WorkForce Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
