Project Delivery Manager

Project Delivery Manager

Scope of the role:

Manage the successful delivery of The Corp business and IT projects through the design, build, testing, acceptance, commissioning and handover lifecycle.

• Lead essential projects, managing the Corp IT project portfolio to share interdependencies and recommending trade-offs and phasing to manage competing resourcing and budget demands.
• Manage project gate reviews with the Head of IT to ensure each project has a robust business case, controls and delivery plan.
• Define and maintain standards for successful execution including documentation and metrics related to portfolio, programme, and project management.
• Manage project performance via objectives and key results (OKRs), monthly reviews with project sponsors.
• Initiate communication and improvement activities to ensure maximum alignment of The Corp Functions and IT priorities.
• Perform risk management and mitigation - evaluating data to prevent project problems and intervening to resolve issues where required.
• Manage staff within the project management team - coaching individuals in adopting improved project and portfolio management disciplines, fostering a supporting a hybrid/agile way of working within the team.
• Ensure that a complete picture of workflows and technical requirements are gathered and recorded to support the development of new or existing systems/applications.
• Responsible for supporting the businesses in identifying their requirements and working with the Solutions Architect to evaluate proposed solutions, ensuring that they meet ABF security, technical and business requirements.
• Responsible for creating and getting sign off for all project documentation as detailed in the Corp IT Projects Run Book.
• Develop detailed project plans, for monitoring and tracking of project deliverables.
• Ensure projects can be fully resourced for delivery within the established project plan.
• Manage relationships and workstreams with the business, key stakeholders, management and 3rd party suppliers.
• Ensure risks and issues are accurately identified and recorded.
• Ensure project gates are managed and appropriate sign off is given before proceeding to the next stage of the lifecycle.
• Manage the portfolio of projects allocated.
• Ensure that projects are initiated through the established Corp IT Project methodology "Front Door" demand management process.
• Contribute input to periodic project prioritisation exercises as requested.
• Responsible for the provision of performance information, ensuring timely and accurate reports are provided to the necessary parties.
• Support departments Corp IT related continuous improvement activities in relation to processes, procedures and documentation.
• Produce and maintain financial forecasts for projects by tracking project budgets, actuals, and invoices and accounting for the cause of any variances against forecasts.

Experience Required:

• Significant overall progressive IT experience.
• Proven experience working as a Sr. Project Manager or Programme Manager.
• Ability to define the scope, planning, resources and deliverables of a project in order to meet customers' expectations.
• Ability to analyse project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ability to prioritise and delegate activities of project team.
• Ability to mobilise and motivate a project team composed of The Corporate functions, IT and 3rd Parties.
• Ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery and support teams at programme, project and individual level.
• Ability to control and report on project budget and relevant project KPIs.
• Ability to deal with and manage conflict whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation.
• Experience of delivering a portfolio of projects to time, quality and budget.
• Experience in delivering application, infrastructure and cloud projects.
• ITIL / Prince 2 / APM / Agile qualified or equivalent and/or qualified by experience.
• MS Power BI or equivalent experience for project reporting.

Additional Responsibilities

• Project and programme preparation of business and IT projects with Corporate senior stakeholders.
• Lead and manage project execution of different sizes and complexity.
• Provide leadership and management of project teams during all phases of the projects.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project management practices and tools.
• Lead role in the development of the Project Management Office, dashboards and KPIs.
• Day-to-day management and maintenance of the project delivery roadmap.
• Lead project delivery continuous improvement forum.
• Management and development of Project Managers, Contractors and 3rd Parties.

The Client is based in Central London - there will be some remote working.

Salary £75K - £100K.

Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.