Seeking a Project Manager responsible for a geographically diverse range of projects delivering a program of internal change. The program manager will own the execution of agreed initiatives, ensure a robust program governance structure is maintained, and ensure effective communication and stakeholder management at all levels of the organisation.
The successful candidate will oversee a team comprising of project managers and business analysts, ensuring strict adherence to project and program management policies and procedures. The individual will provide regular updates to Senior Management and will possess excellent presentation and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
The program manager will work as part of the Transformation Team and:
- Ensure that a robust governance process and procedure is in place to execute against the required portfolio of projects
- Manage all required project status reporting to reflect the latest position of all projects
- Work directly with each of the individual project teams to oversee their day-to-day activities
- Identify and manage the various risks that arise at a project level.
- Understand project interdependencies and perform appropriate risk quantification and analysis to evaluate potential impacts on benefit realisation
- Present regular steering level updates to project sponsors, management teams and other impacted stakeholders
- Act as a point of escalation for risks / issues that materialise and work with the relevant project teams, sponsor or senior executive to resolve and mitigate
- Co-ordinate all aspects of resource management to include budgeting, recruitment, performance management, training and coaching across the project
- Work effectively with internal technology partners or external vendors to ensure successful project delivery
- Ensure that the Control and Quality requirements are understood and consistently adhered to when delivering each of the project outputs
- Maintain compliance with all relevant policies and guidelines during all stages of the project life cycle - in particular the PMO standards and PTS framework requirements
- Implement a formal approach to benefit realisation and tracking
Person Specification
Knowledge/Experience:
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Essential:
- Minimum seven years' industry experience.
- Experience of managing global projects with multiple competing interdependencies.
- Excellent presentation skills - experience of presenting to senior levels in a large organisations
- Experience working with regional teams in a matrix environment.
- Strong background & understanding of the System Development Lifecycle.
- Formal project management certification i.e. PMI, PMP, Prince2 etc.
- Degree level qualification in Finance, Business, Accounting or related disciplines.
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