IT Project Manager - Warwick, United Kingdom - Pontoon
Description
Job Title:
IT Project Manager
Duration: 6 months, extensions likely
Location:
WFH / Warwick
Salary:
Competitive
My client is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned Energy company in the world.
They are currently looking for an IT Project Manager on a 6-month contract based from home with twice per week requirement in the Warwickoffice.
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the Business Analyst, Product Owner to agree the business requirement and continuously validate the solution meets the required outcomes
- Managing project governance, reporting and budgets
- Ensuring the correct processes and controls are being followed and information cascaded
- Managing the delivery schedule around timelines and resourcing
- Bringing together the cross functional multidisciplinary team and leading to deliver, including third party delivery partners
- Supporting with Portfolio Level accountabilities including budgets, resource management, and escalations
- Running planning meetings to agree the delivery schedule
- Managing escalations and conflicts
- Identifying, Resolving and mitigating risks and issues
- Reporting against assigned KPI's and/or regulatory commitments
- Establishing and leading teams through appropriate delivery governance
- Implementing change which achieves the objectives that have been set
- Working closely with service teams to facilitate transition
- Communicating key delivery information
- Ensuring the correct governance processes are being fulfilled
Key Accountabilities:
- Project delivery governance
- Budgets, forecasts and financial management
- Owning and updating the delivery plan
- Dependency management
- Cascading and managing scope/forecast changes
- Virtual team management
- Stakeholder engagement
Qualifications and Experience:
- A good extensive knowledge of IT delivery models and the end to end cycle of delivering IT solutions
- Has a depth of knowledge to ensure predictable and unexpected complexities are effectively managed through stakeholder influence & management.
- Proven leadership, relationship, communication and presentation skills
- A good track record of delivering IT projects across multiple teams and delivery partners
- Valued Business Partner capabilities and behaviours in all interactions with IT and Digital colleagues, vendors and business stakeholders
- Experience of delivering in an Agile environment
- Relevant industry certification desirable, e.g
- APMP, Agile PM certification, SAFe practitioner
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**Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.
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