Project Manager

Project Manager

+ Location: Bristol - Flexible Hybrid working
+ Security Clearance: Must hold SC
+ Role type: Contract
+ Day rate: £500 Per Day Inside IR35

What I'll be doing - your accountabilities The skills you need

Accountable for building complex matrix delivery organisation consisting of a mixture of dedicated and shared resources: These resources will be Project Management, other internal specialists and external third parties.
Accountable for leading the delivery of project(s), programme or portfolio that are large, complex and represent significant benefit / risk to our customers. The delivery will be highly visible and recognisable.
Act as a customer champion. Establishes customer needs, uses operational and technical expertise to deliver brilliant experiences by resolving customer issues and delivery quality and timeliness. Understanding the customer business context and the impacts the programme has on successful business outcomes
Accountable for delivering projects to contracted service levels.
Accountable for setting / agreeing a significant delivery budget and and ensuring that costs do not exceed this.
Accountable for building a comprehensive governance structure with relevant customers, client service managers account team and the programme team. Taking responsibility for leading the development of the appropriate plans and controls to ensure successful delivery.
Accountable for ensuring that the solution (and other deliverables) are of the right quality and accepted by the customer.
Accountable for ensuring that defined methodologies, processes and tools are consistently applied across the projects in scope, in-line with the overall standards set by the PMO.
Works in collaboration with the Practice Managers, and the Client Services Programme team to ensure consistent delivery to customers.
Provide direction to the team on requirements, scope, timescale, cost constraints and quality expectations.
Accountable for mobilising the project, programme or portfolio.
Highly-developed project management skills with experience of delivering technical solutions to Enterprise customers.
Ability to network and form relationships. Expected to have a good internal network.
Great stakeholder management skills. Ability to work with multiple internal and external partners to deliver great outcomes for our customers and business.
Negotiation, communication and decision-making skills.
Ability to interpret Commercial Contracts and identify area of risk / opportunity.
Ability to understand and assess risk.
Demonstrate initiative.
Ability to build a culture of continuous learning and development and mutual support.
An Awareness of ITIL Processes and Procedures

Connected Leader Behaviours Experience you would be expected to have:

* Customer Champion
* Solution Focussed Achiever
* Bold Decision Maker
* Commercial Thinker
* Team Coach

Experience as a Project Manager, delivering complex solutions. The value of delivery (Not contract) will typically have been between £5 Million and £20 Million but this should not be viewed as the deciding dimension of this role versus others.
Experience of delivering a broad range of IT / Voice and Network technologies. Ideally this should be in a range of industry sectors.
Expected to have attained an advanced project management qualification - Prince 2 Practitioner, MSP, APM RPP etc.
Working with customers in leadership roles (i.e. IT Manager, Programme Manager etc.).
Financial tracking and management of a large programme.
Creating Stakeholder management and Communication Plans.
Manging significant risk.
Knocking down internal barriers and issues that exist in other parts of the business.
Building and managing teams.
Experience of producing accurate and timely management information to support decision making.