Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - Sanderson

Sanderson

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Project Manager

An exciting opportunity with one of the largest insurance companies in the UK as a project manager on a 6-month contract is available.

This role is agnostic with multiple offices across the UK, with 2 days in the office per week.

The Project Manager is responsible for the planning, management, monitoring, coordination, and financial control of an individual project or multiple concurrent projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for endtoend IT project delivery, from discovery, initiation and planning through to execution, monitoring, controlling, rollout, and post implementation support.
Prepare detailed project plans for all phases of the project and program, including Business Case, Project Brief, Impact analysis, Risk Assessment, PID, Test Strategy, Communication Plan, Implementation Plan, and Benefit Realisation Plan
Ensure project delivery approach, technical design, and solution, testing strategy, and implementation planning meeting project objectives.
Responsible for internal and external stakeholder management, often involving cross functional business units, senior management, and 3rd party suppliers.
Engage and work with project stakeholders to confirm project delivery requirements, providing project reporting, support decision making, develop effective working relationship, influence, and negotiate delivery approach where appropriate.

Skills & experience required:

Experience as project manager within financial services.
Migration experience (cloud), as well as strong IT skills.
Manage change to project scope and schedule, maintain and communicate project risk and issues, and provide recommendation on mitigation, solution, or workaround.
Use risk management and contingency planning to ensure project remain on track.
Manage and control business analysis and system testing functions, ensuring project documentations are fully signed off and appropriately stored, and testing is completed with zero defects before release.