Project Manager
ANS
- Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead project teams across one or more business units.
- Motivate team members, ensuring they meet project goals and adhere to responsibilities and milestones.
- Own the full project life cycle, from initiation to deployment, for strategic projects or multiple BAU ones simultaneously.
- Developing strong relationships with team members, the SLT & Operational Board
- Evolve and manage a methodology for delivering and monitoring the transformation projects, with a focus on efficiency and pace of delivery balanced with best practice project governance.
- Allocate and manage resources effectively.
- Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases.
- Procure necessary resources to achieve project objectives within planned timeframes.
- Adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines.
- Monitor project activities, risks, and change requests.
- Ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
- Report on project success criteria, results, and deployment management activities.
- Analyze metrics to drive continuous improvement.
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
- Participate in establishing best practices, templates, and policies.
- Drive process improvement initiatives related to project delivery.
- Authority and Accountability:
- Run the project on a day-to-day basis.
- Verify that deliverables meet quality standards, time constraints, and business case benefits.
- Run the project on a day-to-day basis.
- Verify that deliverables meet quality standards, time constraints, and business case benefits.
- Deep knowledge of project management methodologies for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes including Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- sound business case development and approvals skills
- strong knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
- good knowledge of enterprise and data architecture
- Strong communication skills to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, through both oral and visual presentation.
- Demonstrable experience using JIRA (Essential)
- Prince2 or other similar project management accreditations.