Senior Agile Project Manager - Smart Metering / Change


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17th August 2018

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Coventry

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£400 - £500

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Senior Agile Project Manager - Smart Metering / Change/transformation

Location: Coventry (travel required to several sites)

Duration: 3 Months

Our client is looking for an Agile Project Manager with experience of Smart Metering / Change Management / Third party supplier engagement to successfully manage large, high complexity, possibly ambiguous change projects with technical deliverables. Manage these deliverables, autonomously to a high quality through all stages of the project lifecycle, in line with agreed UK change methodology and governance processes.

Main Responsibilities

* Responsible for the delivery of multiple changes and new capability to the identified business areas within agreed timescales and to agreed level of quality in order for the business unit to achieve its MTP.

* Provides direction, drive & leadership on projects that may impact a large number of customers and / or internal business users, and tend to be complex requiring large integration across several systems or applications.

* Demonstrates skills to manage large projects that may change multiple interrelated processes across multiple business units where inability to deliver would significantly impact core business operations.

* Is assigned primary responsibility for large scale, highly complex projects which tend to have a wide reaching scope, and will have a high impact on the company.

* Responsible for the definition and agreement of the scope of project to ensure clarity and support of the objective, timescale, budget and quality measures with key leadership team stakeholders.

* Accountable for the definition and management of an appropriate controlled environment for each project including; governance and decision making, investment proposal development, resourcing, management of risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, changes, stakeholders and team management. This includes being able to demonstrate build and management of highly-complex, multi-faceted impact assessments & project schedules integrating multiple deliverables within a waterfall or agile methodology. Or can demonstrate expertise in managing organisational change and complex communication and culture change efforts.

* Responsible for ensuring the identified benefits and quantification are valid, realistic and accepted by the Sponsor and benefit owners.

* Responsible for the readiness of targeted business areas to ensure they are ready to accept the change and realise the identified benefits.

* Responsible for delivering to the targeted business areas appropriate tracking mechanisms to ensure benefits are delivered.

* Implements new products, systems, processes etc. with an extremely high degree of competency.

* Work with dependant functions (customer experience, digital, finance, E.ON IT, legal marketing communications etc.) which may be geographically dispersed, to establish and maintain fruitful, mutually beneficial relationships.

* Identify opportunities within the UK Change Team for continuous improvement and work collaboratively with the continuous improvement group to build our best practice framework and techniques.

* Lead, motivate and manage the project team to meet project requirements and schedule.

* Inspire excellence in terms of customer focus, commercial focus and innovative solutions.

* Serves as a project management mentor for Grade 5 Project Managers.

* Manage and monitor the day to day focus and activities of the team, ensuring appropriate productivity measurement and performance standards, robust controls and checks are embedded.

* Manage purchasing requisitioning, goods and service receipting and invoice payment in line with organisation best practices.

* Ensure all team operations and activities meet internal and external audit standards and where deficiencies are identified ensure action plans are in place and progressed effectively.

Skills

* Has demonstrated competencies and leadership capabilities as a mature and seasoned Project Manager and is ready to undertake larger more complex efforts.

* Experience delivering projects using an Agile methodology to a level that best practice can be shared within peer groups across UK Change.

* Prince 2 (Agile) practitioner, APMP (or equivalent) with experience of taking nebulous or ambiguous objectives or vision and scoping these out into tangible, firm deliverables on large projects which could be delivering transformational business change.

* Knowledge of programme & PMO methodologies and extensive experience of applied project management methodology.

* Must demonstrate a high level of capability against the UK Change competencies.

* Must be flexible and adaptable with the ability to adapt to various ways of working within different types of projects - must be able to work through what the most appropriate use of the change framework is for any given situation.

* Must be challenging and innovative with the ability to challenge themselves to continuously improve and add value to the organisation.

* Must be able to undertake change in a pacier way and challenge the wider business, IT and Support Functions to identify and remove blockers that are stopping quick progress.

* Experience of liaising with multiple stakeholder in a variety of business areas and stakeholders of differing seniority.

* Extensive evidence of identifying, managing and embedding lasting business change.

* Extensive experience of using MS Project for traditional projects or sprint planning methodologies for Agile projects

If you have the above skills pleas submit your CV in the first instance

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