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About The Role

About The Role

We are currently recruiting for an experienced IT Project Manager to join the Technology and Change team.

We work in a hybrid way, mostly remote with a requirement to travel into our Walsall office once a week to work with the team. With that in mind you will be located within a convenient commute to Walsall.

Principal Accountabilities;

Manage IT Projects

• Takes ownership, accountable for the delivery of the project following

briefing from the head of delivery or project sponsor.

• Effectively mobilise projects, identifying and organising

resources and establishes the required project governance

• Management of multiple concurrent projects within the roadmap

• Work with the delivery team to ensure that an accurate resource forecast is

complete and maintained

• Work with third party resource and shared service suppliers to fulfil project

needs

• Responsible for the execution of the deliverables in line with the plan

• Responsible for the end to end delivery of projects (initiation, analysis and design, build and test, deploy and handover)

• Manage the projects to the agreed project lifecycle, and governance

framework

• Deliver to the agreed time, quality and cost plans, adhering to tolerances

and escalation reporting.

• Effectively transition the project into Service delivery and ensure all

remaining change and issues are closed down

• Monitor and control IT Projects

• Ensure appropriate controls are in place for time, cost and quality

• Ensure detailed base lined plans are produced; critical path is signed off

and reported against.

• Monitor, track and report to key IT and business stakeholders

• Ensure appropriate risk, issues, assumptions and dependency

management is in place, liaise with business and IT stakeholder for

identification, escalation and mitigation.

• Ensure compliance to the governance structure as defined in the life cycle

  
  

• Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with the product owner or

project sponsor and business team

• Engage and build relationships with the delivery team and stakeholders

who will be required to support and deliver the project

• Engage and build relationships with the various business stakeholders to

ensure the appropriate input and support is in place for the project.

• Co-ordinate and liaise with 3rd parties where appropriate for the delivery and

• co-ordination of the IT technical tasks

• Engage and build relationships within the IT team.

• Financial Control

• Develop, co-ordinate and help establish business case for projects

• Monitor budgets regularly to ensure budget remains within the agreed

financial governance

• Ensure appropriate gateway governance is adhered to.

  
  

• Project Management Practice

• Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues to provide support

• and knowledge transfer

• Conduct peer reviews of project documentation

• Define and support improvements to the working practices within project

• portfolio, function and IT by contributing to improvement initiatives

  
  

• Portfolio Support

• Shaping, developing and establishing business case for projects

• Support project quality checks, and quality assurance activities across the

portfolio

• Support the mobilisation / shaping of projects, across the portfolio

• Support the resolution of project issues, across the portfolio

  
  

• Line Management

• On boarding and mentoring new starters

• Mentoring Junior Project Managers

About You

About you;

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following knowledge, skills and

Attributes:

Qualifications:

• Degree level qualification is desirable

• PRINCE2 or similar practitioner accredited

• AgilePM or similar practitioner accredited

• Change Management or similar practitioner accreditation is desirable

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of project management methodologies

• Knowledge of waterfall, agile and scrum based methodologies

• Knowledge of IT systems and architectures

  
  

Experience:

Essential

• Experience in delivering multiple / portfolios of projects, concurrently.

• Experience of managing project level budgets from £100k to £1M

• Experience of producing and managing resource forecasts

• Experience in managing technical projects, through the full project lifecycle.

• Experience in business change projects, through the full project lifecycle.

• Experience of shaping, developing and establishing business case for projects

• Experience of delivering projects using a variety of project management methodologies.

• Experience of mobilising projects, identifying and organising resources and