PROJECT MANAGER - PROCUREMENT

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PROJECT MANAGER - PUBLIC SECTOR PROCUREMENT EXPERIENCE

ASAP START DATE

3 MONTHS

INSIDE IR35

£500 PER DAY

Key Responsibilities

1.Manage projects throughout their lifecycle in accordance with our Change framework, to deliver projects to time, cost and quality, measured by agreed success criteria.

2.Lead collaborative and dynamic planning, ensuring clarity of scope and deliverables, across both internal teams and external suppliers.

3.Build and maintain teams to achieve the project aims, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and focused what is most important to the delivery of products and services

4.Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them, managing risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

5.Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the project delivery team

6.Manage governance arrangements for projects, ensuring that design, project and programme governance and that proportionate project documentation produced to a high quality.

7.Manage stakeholder relationships at all levels to secure commitment and support both for the project and to promptly address issues and escalations.

8.Manage regular and impactful reporting to all relevant stakeholders to communicate progress, barriers/constraints and lessons learnt, using formats and a level of detail appropriate to the audience.

Experience - essential:

*Experience of delivering projects & products to time, cost and quality in an IT-enabled or transformational environment

*Experience of agile and PRINCE2 project management methodologies

*Experience of leading and managing project/delivery teams

*Experience of working within a complex, public sector or regulatory environment

Experience - desirable

*Project managing Public Sector Procurement and outcome Implementation

*Managing projects using Project Online, Microsoft Project or similar tool?

*Experience of managing budgets and cost benefit cases

*Agile or Prince 2 (Practitioner level) accredited or equivalent or equivalent qualification

*Using Microsoft Office suite to a high standard and spearheading working smarter with modern technologies.

Key/priority skills

*Team dynamics and collaboration. You know how to bring people together to form a motivated team quickly. You can help to create the right environment for a team to work in and can empower them to deliver. You can recognise and deal with issues. You can facilitate the best team make-up depending on the situation. (Relevant skill level: working)

*Communication skills. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. You can manage stakeholders' expectations and be flexible. You are capable of proactive and reactive communication. You can facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

*Maintaining delivery momentum. You can facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. You can actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

*Planning. You understand the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. You can use use data to inform planning. You can manage complex internal and external dependencies. You can provide delivery confidence. You can remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations. You ensure that teams plan appropriately for their own capacity. (Relevant skill level: practitioner).

Other skills

*Agile and Lean practices. You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. You can recognise when something does not work and encourage a mindset of experimentation. You can adapt and reflect, be resilient and have the ability to see outside of the process. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

*Commercial management. You can act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. You understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department. You know how and when third parties should be brought in to support on the required work. (Relevant skill level: working)

*Life-cycle perspective. You recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another. You can ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. You can manage delivery products and services at different phases. (Relevant skill level: working)

*Making a process work. You can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You know how to guide teams through the implementation of a new process. (Relevant skill level: expert)

Ways of working

This is a home/remote based role working with operational and project teams who are also working from home. We are making use of various technologies to communicate, but all activity will need to be managed remotely. The successful candidate will be inducted into the role remotely. The successful candidate will need access to a device (laptop or desktop) and a working environment that will allow them to work safely and effectively remotely

LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.