Our client a leading professional services firm, is looking for an experienced senior project manager to initiate and actively manage projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact.
Role Purpose:
Initiates and actively manages a portfolio of projects ranging in sizes, and including multi-streamed projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact
Initiate and actively manage large, multi-streamed projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact
Working with key stakeholders to understand inflight and emerging requirements
The day to day management of key projects being the ‘voice of the business’ into them
Helping plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
Deliver key activities
Enabling project Sponsors to focus on setting direction, providing SME input, building advocacy and removing blockers
Operating within and assist in maturing the Change Minimum Standards
Key Responsibilities:
Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
Day to day management of the project(s)
Being the voice of business into the project(s)
Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
Define the project’s governance framework (including ‘hooking’ into portfolio / programme governance)
Ensuring underlying workstreams are coordinated
Resolving risks and issues
Supporting individuals on the project(s)
Ensuring project integrity and coherence
Monitoring project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
Help appoint additional staff into the project and underlying workstreams / activities
Liaison with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
Ensuring efficiency of resources
Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting workpackages as required
Identifying and initiating additional activities wherever gaps exist
Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums
Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
Effective handover to business operations
Champion Change Minimum Standards
Actively support assurance activities
Required skills & experience
Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
OKR/Benefits tracking
Developing and embedding ‘right-sized’ change delivery and governance (aligned to portfolio and programme governance) to suit the project and stakeholder needs
Service management concepts and frameworks an advantage (e.g. ITIL)
Organisational governance structures and associated relationships
Understanding the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
Understanding the corporate vision and strategy and the wider industry
Corporate processes and procedures (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
Identifying and monitoring and developing appropriate remedial plans for key project performance (KPIs) and risk (KRIs) metrics.
Experience of Workday HCM, Workday Finance or MSD CMS an advantage
Experience of a professional services environment an advantage
