Project Manager - Brickhill, United Kingdom - activ8 recruitment

activ8 recruitment

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Brickhill, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Project Manager£41000

Company bonus

Remote

We are recruiting for a Project Manager who is responsible for delivery of software solutions to end users, to agreed specification, time and budget.

This role requires client stakeholder engagement and as such is suited to a Project Manager that is currentlyexternal facing.

This company is an established provider of omnichannel contact centre solutions built with a focus on customers, that connects agents and customers on their channel of choice.

Essential for this role are a knowledge of Software development processes, and experience working with local and distributed teams.

Scrum certification, and experience of agile methodologies such as Kanban are desirable.

Experience running multiple concurrent, set scope projects delivering to public sector clients would be advantageous.

This role requires experience communicating, and managing relationships with multiple stakeholders across many projects concurrently.

Essential Prerequisites for the Project Manager position

PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP qualification
Good spoken and written communication and collaboration skills.
Selfstarter with a proactive attitude.

Your key responsibilities as a Project Manager will be:

Full management of risks and issues throughout a project, along with accounting for assumptions, constraints and dependencies
Facilitating and leading project meetings and ensuring minutes are produced, distributed and validated
Budget management including appropriate escalation, where required
Ensuring project governance is adhered to and any remedial actions are completed in a timely fashion
Producing and maintaining project initiation documentation which ensures projects are completed to a baseline agreed with the all stakeholders
Refinement and maintenance of the Project Schedule which ensures forecasting and earned value analysis remains accurate at all times
Ensuring projects are always delivered to an agreed specification
Management of change throughout the life of the project including adherence to all change management processes
Thorough quality management including Test Plan / Specification execution and adherence to Quality Assurance process
Creating Acceptance Certificates where required and ensuring these are completed
Providing timely, relevant, and accurate reports throughout the life of a project

The Project Manager job is perfect if you:

Are a confident communicator, with both technical and non-technical teams.
Work and communicate in a technical customer facing role
Demonstrate excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in order to communicate.

effectively with all parties at all levels

Operate as a flexible, positive, selfmotivated and a diligent hard working team player with a

'can-do' attitude

Prioritise workload, demonstrating good organisational and administrative skills
Show a methodical approach to work by developing, documenting and following procedures

and seeing tasks through to completion

Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.
Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
Work effectively and efficiently with mínimal/no supervision

In return we are offering:

Company bonus
Other benefits

This is a great role for someone with experience working as a Project Manager with a technology background (preferably delivering to the public sector) that would like to move to a dynamic, fun and expanding business with an inclusive team mentality.