Project Manager

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Project Manager

£45k - £52k per annum

Work from home / London

We are seeking a Project Manager to join an excellent global organisation based in Central London. A successful candidate will provide Project Management to help support the development of key global systems. This will include the likes of customer-facing digital products, internal systems implementations, website development and business integrations. Our client is operating a hybrid model of 3 days work from home and 2 days in the office each week.

Key Skills:

* Experience of managing software development or systems implementation projects

* Knowledge of and experience using project management methodology: Prince2 or PMI or Agile

* Experience of managing testing

* Familiarity with MS Project, JIRA and Confluence

* Excellent stakeholder management skills

* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

* Desirable but not required skills include:

o Experience in a web-related role in Academic or Professional Publishing

o Good working knowledge of XML

o Understanding of eCommerce website development

o Experience of business analysis techniques such as ETL and data modelling.

Responsibilities:

* Manage software / systems development or implementation projects

* Manage other projects as required

* Scope and manage the end-to-end delivery of new projects to time, scope and budget and within agreed quality parameters

* Apply project management principles to projects, e.g. Develop full scale project plans; create and maintain risk logs, issue logs and change request documentation; lead status meetings; provide status reports for projects etc

* Proactively manage tasks, ensuring resources are deployed and deadlines are met

* Ensure prompt escalation to senior management when project deliverables are at risk

* Manage stakeholders across the business to ensure effective requirements gathering and ongoing communication throughout the project lifecycle

* Own, manage and maintain key supplier relationships and act as a point of reference/ project planning advice for internal teams

* Support the Project Office with lessons learned, best practices, and standardised methodologies

* Project manage all elements of the software development lifecycle (e.g. requirements, development, testing, rollout) working with internal stakeholders and external suppliers

* Use Confluence for key project documents

* Establish, monitor and report on budgets, escalating to relevant project team members if appropriate

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