Senior Project Manager

We're now looking to recruitment a Senior Project Manager to join our PMO team.

Overview

• Initiate and actively manage projects of varying size and complexity with significant strategic and/or commercial impact.
• Work with key senior firm stakeholders to understand strategic outcomes and deliver them
• Day to day management of key projects and creation and maintenance of all associated project documentation including business cases, project plans, risks and issues, actions, decisions, steering committee preparation.
• 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 subject matter expertise input, building advocacy and removing blockers.
• Operating within the firm's prescribed project delivery standards, known as the "Change Minimum Standards."

Responsibilities

• Working with key stakeholder across the business to successfully deliver project outcomes at pace
• 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
• 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

You'll be someone with:

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills (incl. presentation skills)
• Take personal responsibility for own decision and actions and those of others
• Project Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management)
• Project Delivery /Workpackage Oversight
• Strong communications and risk/issue management skills
• Support, train, mentor and advise others in Operations PMO
• Drive improvements and championing change
• experience of delivery and Governance Frameworks
• Communication and Presentation