Deputy Head of Practice - London, United Kingdom - Data Communications Company

Data Communications Company

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The role:

Deputy Head of Practice

Manchester, and/or London

Competitive Salary plus benefits

The Deputy Head of Profession will support the Head of Profession by leading and championing project delivery across DCC with responsibility for the strategic development of the Programme & Project Management Practice and building project delivery capability.

Reporting to the Head of Profession, the role holder is accountable for delivering a highly client focused and responsive service to internal and external customers and influencing decision making to ensure that programmes and projects are properly resourced and successfully delivered.

The role will support execution of a vision and strategy for continuous improvement, creating a centre of excellence, developing solutions to address customer needs and ensuring key metrics are reported and leveraged to improve practice operations.

What you'll be doing:

Provide visible leadership to the Programme & Project Management Practice. Role model positive behaviours and professional excellence and inspire others to create a profession and practice that they feel proud to be a part of.
Support the Head of Profession to establish the strategy and plan for developing the practice in collaboration with other Head of Profession colleagues and Functional Leads.
Collect and provide relevant management information to support the development of the practice, informing resourcing decisions, key appointments and development activity.
Contribute to the development and control of the annual operating and project expenditure budget and manage costs to stay within plan.
Lead the practice's involvement in both functional and DCC wide innovation efforts and support use of new tools and methodologies to take advantage of business opportunities.

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Business Case Development: Programme Managers will support the development of business cases, with accountability for providing:

programme delivery strategy, encompassing multiple projects and including requirements definition, procurement, design build test, integration, assurance, regulatory compliance and stakeholder engagement activities.

- outline programme delivery plan (with associated work breakdown structure and identification of critical path)
- indicative resource plan
- risk & issues management and quality assurance approach
- stakeholder engagement strategy
- identifying known risks and mitigating strategy
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Programme Delivery: Programme Managers are accountable for all aspects of programme delivery:

Delivery Approach: Establish the programme delivery strategy, ensuring that project workstreams have clear objectives and are aligned and working to the same set of delivery principles in accordance with the programme vision. Assess and approve project and workstream delivery options, ensuring they are credible, meet strategic objectives and are financially viable and compliant with regulatory obligations. Present a recommended programme delivery approach to senior stakeholders via the DCC's governance process.

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Programme Planning: develop and maintain a detailed, credible programme plan clearly identifying activities and resources required to deliver programme objectives with critical path and dependencies. Identify and manage inter project dependencies.
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Third Party Supplier procurement: Manage development and implementation of the programme procurement strategy, utilising expert procurement and commercial team support and ensuring alignment with business objectives and programme delivery strategy.
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Third Party Supplier Management: establish an effective working relationship with third party suppliers, implementing a framework for management and assurance of programme delivery activities. ensuring project managers understand the delivery and contractual obligations placed on suppliers and acting as the initial escalation point for resolution of delivery issues. Work with suppliers to develop solutions to delivery issues.
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Activity Management: scheduling and allocation of work activities on a day-to-day basis, identifying plan over-runs, understanding the impact, managing dependencies between projects, managing the development of solutions to get the programme back on track and escalating accordingly.

What we're looking for:

An experienced project delivery professional leader who has a strong reputation and who has held a high level of influence within their current or previous role.
Demonstrable experience in leading complex business transformation programmes, 3rd party technology delivery/integration programmes, or significant procurement programmes.
Demonstrable experience of building high performing programme delivery teams and managing others to consistently deliver high a quality programme management service.
Demonstrable line management experience, leading teams of more than 10 people in a high pressure, challenging environment.
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