Job description
Project ManagerLocation: London
Length: 3 months
Rate: £440-472 per day
Hours: 9-5pm
This role is responsible for independently managing projects of medium cost and/or complexity with few dependencies, or delivering a larger project with support from a Programme Manager.
Job Responsibilities:
- Delivery of projects according to agreed time/budget/scope/quality/change control criteria.
- Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve project objectives.
- Ensuring the development of accurate project plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of project resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.
- Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.
- Conducting regular reviews of project outcomes, both internally with project team and with clients during and after the delivery has been completed.
- Providing input into decision-making with stakeholders.
- Developing communication disciplines as appropriate for the project.
- Ensuring stakeholders are provided with appropriate timely advice during and after project delivery.
- Effectively and accurately escalating and communicating issues as appropriate.
- Actively contribute to a culture that achieves the business goals, delights customers and keeps consumer advocacy at the heart of everything we do.
- Ensure that good client / consumer outcomes are at the centre of all operational activity and decision making.
- Deliver great clients and consumers service and seek to exceed client / consumer expectations.
- Understand and participate in Elevate Performance ensuring stretching personal objectives, a personal development plan and regular self and team feedback.
- Comply with the Training and Competency requirements and complete required training in a timely manner.
- Adhere to all regulatory requirements within role responsibility and escalate issues quickly.
- Pro-actively identify risks and make recommendation to mitigate these. Understand and adhere to specific regulatory obligations and company policies and procedures.
Skills:
- Good understanding and application of Project Management competencies including at least one formal project delivery methodology, stakeholder management, contractuals, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
- Good understanding and application of change management competencies
- Good leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills
- Financial literacy to forecast and manage programme, project and departmental budgets, costs and revenue
- Ability to influence and build productive relationships with key programme stakeholders (both internal and external) to senior manager level
- Good knowledge of project management methodology and tools, including software
- Good problem solving and analytical skills Good negotiation and conflict management skills
Education:
- Educated to degree-level or equivalent Continued professional development at a high level
Interested? Please apply today!
