IT Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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IT Project Manager

London (Hybrid, 1 day per week in the office)

£85,000

Key Responsibilities

  • To manage the delivery of ABS projects. This will include ensuring that the project is correctly specified, delivered on time, meet's business & technical requirements and is within the agreed budget. ABS Projects may also require third parties to be managedas part of the overall production line.
  • Creating a plan and being accountable for the delivery of that plan to time, quality and cost.
  • To establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders. This will include technical, business, operational and third party personnel. Organising and running workshops / 1to1 meetings with senior stakeholders.
  • To understand highlevel technical architecture and be able to facilitate debate and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
  • To control the governance of the project including weekly status meetings and reporting to Steering Committees
  • To be responsible for the project administration and the production of project management documentation, e.g. project plans, financial plans, resource planning, status reports, steering packs, briefing packs.
  • To monitor and manage the project processes and ensure that any elements which fail in the workflow are remedied.
  • To track progress against milestones, deadlines and budget. To Report on these items to key stakeholders and to provide dependency information into ABS delivery team for projects.
  • To anticipate, manage and resolve issues and act as the point of contact for the project.
  • To use best practice risk management, assessing risks in an informed and considered manner and to plan for the mitigation of these risks.
  • Ensuring the project remains focused on achieving its stated business outcomes.
  • Be able to communicate technical project updates in an easy to understand, business language to MS Amlin internal clients (MSABS is a Service Company to MS Amlin's underwriting legal entities)

Personal attributes

  • Ability to cope in a technically & politically complex and fastchanging environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadlinedriven situation.
  • Strong planning and organising skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously through to implementation
  • The ability to foster a commercial mind set by establishing scoping documentation (SOWs/PIDS) and controlling projects through credible impact assessments against time/quality/cost.
  • Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
  • Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
  • Good team player, selfmotivated and able to work on own initiative.
  • Computer literate, able to quickly and efficiently use a wide range of common Office software including Word, Excel, Project and Power Point).
  • Clear decisionmaking ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
  • Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach.
  • Strong sense of prioritisation and execution against critical deliverables, coupled with a sense of personal ownership for key project deliverables
  • A track record of delivering against tight timescales in an ambiguous, demanding and changing environment
  • Ability to demonstrate flexibility, multitasking skills and a 'can do attitude'
  • Experience in dealing with conflicting priorities and opinions (multicustomer scenario)

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