IT Project Manager - Change/Implementation Management - Agile

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Job Title: Agile Senior Project Manager X3

Teams: BI & Analytics Domain / Public & Commercial Domain / Digital Transformation

Location: Kingswood, Cannock

Salary: £38,000.00 - £45,000.00 depending on experience with car/allowance and performance bonus

Closing date: 5th February 2018

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Where you'll work:

The company is currently looking for a Talented Senior Project Manager to join them and help their business improve and grow. You will be part of the UK wide Information Systems & Technology Team who are technical, innovative, and strategic thinking individuals that all work effectively both as a team and individually. Their office in Kingswood in Staffordshire is a custom built facility acting as a centre of support services for the business affording a great opportunity to build a strong internal network, as you carry out your day to day role.

The Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) Senior Project Manager leads and manages business change projects underpinned by Information Technology to optimise, evolve and grow the business. The role makes a significant contribution to the business strategy and requires skill and tenacity in the areas of business change, IT technology procurement, negotiation, multi-disciplinary, and external resource management. The successful candidate will deliver impactful IT projects in the business and be directly responsible for project budgets and outcomes.

What you'll do

* You will have engagement with customers and stakeholder management.

* You will manage activities of project team resources and stakeholders to deliver business change solutions.

* You will build and lead teams consisting of vendors, contractors, internal functional colleagues, IS&T colleagues and corporate colleagues according to the domain of project.

* You will Initiate direct communication with specific customers, functional teams, executive leadership, sponsors, suppliers and IS&T teams on a range of topics related to business change project and negotiate with vendors and other stakeholders to achieve successful, timely project delivery.

* You will direct others through specification, statements of work and other appropriate methods in the detailed design, coding, testing, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of underpinning information technology solutions.

* You will drive projects to a successful conclusion, using the most suitable project methodology, be that Agile or Waterfall.

* You will Prepare and present project plans, status reports, cost forecasts, risk and issues logs, options appraisals, cost benefit studies and recommend funding and resources.

About your knowledge, skills and experience

* Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or domain related subject area

* Proven track record using different methodologies including Agile and Waterfall, with emphasis on Agile.

* Extensive experience working in an Agile environment, with proven track record in Scrum and Kanban.

* Formal project management qualification at practitioner level.

* Experience of leading several separate projects involving business change.

* Evidence of leading business change as a project manager with a mixture of external vendor provision, business stakeholder management and process

* Experience in a commercial business including implementing new processes and technologies to produce lasting competitive advantage

* Evidence of completing full project lifecycle from options appraisal to business change adoption and sustainability, using both Agile and Waterfall approaches.

* Evidence of negotiating with service providers and driving selection through modern vendor engagement processes

* Evidence of managing a wide range of stakeholders and colleagues as a successful project delivery team

* Strong evidenced negotiation/networking/leadership skills

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