Description:
As IT Project Manager, you'll work collaboratively with other change professionals to realise business benefits through delivery of strategic projects in our portfolio on a 12 month fixed term contract.
In this role you will work within a team of change experts as a trusted partner, driving our business towards achieving our strategic objectives. You will lead the project team, role modelling our values, while partnering with your sponsors, Tribe leads and senior stakeholders.
You'll have an agile mind-set and ensure delivery is value and outcome based and aligned to the programme vision. You'll be passionate about change and want to make a difference.
Key Accountabilities
- Manage programme and project activities (end to end delivery of multiple concurrent change programmes and projects) on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Programme Sponsor through the Change Management Framework.
- Define and be accountable for the approach and milestone dates and maintain the plan.
- Identify, secure and engage with internal and external resources to ensure programme/project delivery.
- Be responsible for the relationships between the sponsor and the relevant change management functions (including third party providers) to include the commercial terms and conditions of change programmes for the sponsor.
- Create a sense of urgency and vision around the programme/project driving pace for delivery.
- To manage programme/project communication and engagement across all relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure programme/project benefits are identified and aligned to strategic objectives at the beginning and measured throughout and after the programme/project.
- Develop, manage and ensure accurate progress analysis on a Strategic Programme/Project of change, as agreed with the sponsor and consistent with the Change Management Framework.
- To ensure that change is implemented with minimal adverse impact to business as usual.
- To define and own the Programme/Project Budget seeking ways to reduce cost and increase or bring forward benefits.
- Ensure compliance with the rules & requirements of OUR REGULATORS and any other relevant legal/regulatory/risk management frameworks, including the TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) framework.
- Ensure programmes and projects are closed properly, benefit managers are clear of their accountabilities and Post Implementation Reviews are undertaken.
- Within the wider Change and Portfolio Community, take responsibility for process improvement and assist in the development and implementation of project management best practice.
- Dynamic and self-motivated style, with energy and ability to create pace and drive change.
Skills & Experience
- Experience within project and change delivery, having delivered a variety of projects of different types and sizes using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
- Understanding of change management and implementing people, process and systems change
- Demonstrative experience of problem solving and removing impediments
- Excellent communication skills, coupled with exemplary stakeholder management, with the ability to influence at all levels
- A growth mind-set with process improvement ability, focused on continuous improvement
- Understanding of IT systems development lifecycle
- Project, Agile or Change management qualifications would be an advantage but not essential