Technical Project Manager/Head of Delivery; £50k-£60k, Manchester.
Recruiter
Evolution Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Listed on
22nd February 2019
Location
Manchester City Centre
Type
Permanent
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Technical Project Manager / Head of Delivery; £50,000-£60,000, Manchester City Centre; 10% Matched Pension, Weekly Home Working, Flexi-Time, Private Medical Cover, £2,000 Personal Training Budget, 25 Holidays + Bank Holidays.Are you a commercially minded individual hungry to take the next big leap in your career?
Would you relish the opportunity to implement your own ideas, designing and implementing new processes and procedures in order to achieve targets without oversight?
We are looking for someone who ideally comes from a digital background who is looking for an opportunity to step up into a Technical PM / Head of Delivery role. Due to the rapid rate we anticipate our business to grow, we have introduced this new role into the business. Your input will be vital to the business's continued success, whilst maintaining the incredibly high standards of work we deliver to each and every client.
To be successful in this role you must have impeccable stakeholder management skills be comfortable pushing back with clients from time to time. You're responsible for managing their expectations proactively and inline with their budgets whilst ensuring that the overall studio efficiency and quality of output aren't compromised.
By nature, you are a true peoples person. Clients need to trust you and the team must to look up to you and believe in your ideas.
Your Role Broken Down;Completely own operational performance including studio efficiency, overage and quality of output. Report to the board key KPIs and progress to targets.Design, implement and iterate processes and procedures to improve operational performance to achieve targets without oversight.Ensure constant adherence to operational procedures across the team whilst delivering projects in a professional mannerForecast resource requirements based on planned pipeline and current project status and proactively maintain a resourcing plan which accounts for contingency, expected overage etc.Plan + manage project deliveries to ensure delivery on time and within budgeted hours.Proactively identify issues early and act decisively and with purpose to manage a project to completion with limited impact on date, budget and commercials. Report accurately the impact of these changes.Maintain commercial control of a project through client communication and managementA Day in the Life;
Project Delivery Plan
An end to end methodology for delivering projects
All supporting charts, process maps, documents and training required to fulfill plan.
Systems and controls to ensure projects follow this plan
Continually updated project resource map for the coming 3 months detailing:
End to end project phasing and resourcing requirementsAssignment of in-house and external resources to upcoming projectsUpcoming resourcing conflicts or shortfallsContingency and margin allowed forWeekly project status reports distributed to all stakeholders detailing:
Project StatusForecasted delivery dateUpcoming critical milestones + implications of missing themIn flight project status tracker for internal use including:
Current hours spent vs expected budgetCurrent hours spent vs total budgetAll milestones given to client vs actual delivery datesChange requests and amends logWeekly + monthly operational summary detailing:
Individual Project status summaryUpcoming deadlinesLast period deadlines vs achievedKPIs vs Target:Procedure AdherenceDeadlines HitBudgets HitYour Package;£50,000-£60,000 Starting Salary10% Matched Pension Contribution2 Days Working From Home Per WeekFlexi-Time OptionsPrivate Medical Cover£2,000 Personal Training Budget 25 Days Holiday + Bank HolidaysWhy Would You Want To Come And Work With Us?
We're almost at the 8 year milestone since two brothers set up the business. In that time we have grown to 22 people including 13 in development + testing/QA, and in within that time only 1 person has moved onto pastures new. You know yourself how frequently people change jobs within development, so I'd like to think we are doing something right, right? And we have BIG plans almost double in size over the next 18-24 months.
Each and every member of staff have a voice and most importantly are listened to, no matter the status or position within the business. We LOVE people who have a burning desire to learn and who like to challenge the status quo. If you would like to be part of something really special, don't just sit back and watch this space...get in touch with Chris today! Chris' DDI 01612412902 / [email protected]
