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Project Manager
Locations:Bristol, Manchester or London
The role is a member of the Delivery team and supports the Head of Delivery by:
- Providing professional project management for one or more projects concurrently
- Being responsible for the successful delivery of projects as measured against project deliverables, timescale, commercial objectives and risk management.
- Following a standard approach to project governance, including the reporting on the progress of projects.
Main responsibilities and Accountabilities:
The scope of work for which the Project Manager is responsible, includes:
- Those ‘projects’ which are sufficiently large to warrant a named Programme and/or Project Manager(s) to be assigned.
- The scope excludes those Technical work packages which are managed through a portfolio reporting framework.
Within parameters set by the Technical Solutions Executive, the role will have the following accountabilities:
Strategy
- To be able to clearly articulate the objectives and business need for the project, understanding the broader strategic fit for the project.
- To make continuous improvement a priority, holding a solid grasp of project management principles, with experience in successfully advancing those principles.
Execution
- To lead and deliver projects, including:
- Developing estimates and plans to create a baseline against which the project will be measured or bids will be made;
- Proactively identifying and resolving issues which threaten successful delivery;
- Initiating, controlling and closing projects.
- Delivering projects within agreed budget, time and quality parameters;
- Demonstrating clear understanding of the business requirements for each project, making ongoing decisions based on what’s best for the organisation, challenging senior stakeholders on critical success factors if needed.
- Managing all commercial aspects of the project including effective change control of requirements, deadlines and effort.
- Managing resources in line with budgeted effort.
- Resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
- Ensuring there is an adequate understanding of the business risks inherent in the projects.
- From time to time, supporting sales presentations to clients
Governance and control
- Establish and coordinate an effective Steering Group (or equivalent) to provide direction and support to resolve issues where necessary
- Monitor and report (progress, risks, budgets, issues) with sufficient clarity and timeliness to enable stakeholders (project, Technology Solutions and the Change Executive) to monitor progress;
- To establish systems and processes for planning, governance, reporting, communication, and budgets to ensure delivery to quality, time and cost requirements.
- To support the maintenance and promotion of the ‘small project management framework’ to enable other Profit Centres to manage those projects consistently and effectively.
Stakeholders
- To build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, particularly the Business and Executive Sponsors, both internal and external and across all areas of JLT.
- To work closely with the Client Delivery Managers to manage relationships with clients.
- To collaborate with and build relationships with MS IT teams or third party suppliers where these are part of delivery teams.
- To champion and facilitate cross functional colleagues/teams to work as ‘one JLT’.
- To offer proactive support to non-project management specialists with responsibilities for managing projects.
Experience and Education Requirements
Essential:
- Experience of successfully completing the entire project lifecycle, from inception to implementation.
- Ability to lead a cross functional, distributed team to deliver successfully
- Track record of delivering to time, quality and budget.
- Experience in client facing work.
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to articulate complex messages with clarity and ease to all audiences and flex style as required.
- Prudent risk taker.
- Strong commercial awareness, including change management.
- Ability to work to strict deadlines.
- Ability to cope with high demand requirements of stakeholders.
- Logical, innovative, methodical, collaborative and thorough approach to work.
- Expertise in making high level decisions and implement operational plans.
- Collaborative team player who can influence outcomes as well as work independently. Known as being a team player and achieving for the group rather than individual.
Desirable:
- Lean Six Sigma methodologies (Green Belt standard)
- Experience of Agile development methodologies
- Financial services background
- Experience of Employee Benefits
Key Competencies
Technical:
- MS Office products (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
- Prince2 qualified (or equivalent)
- Planning, monitoring and controlling projects, including risk management.
- Financial control and budget management
- Operational management, process management and control
Behavioural:
- Commercial Credibility
- Communication
- Drive & Resilience
- Planning and Organising
- Delivering Solutions
- Leadership & Influence
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