Senior Project Manager

Location: Gloucestershire
Pay Rate: £475-500/day (Inside IR35)
Contract Duration: 7 months (until end of December)
Working Arrangement: Hybrid role (2 days on-site per week)

Key Responsibilities & Outcomes

1. Project Management: Define, document, and execute medium or moderately complex projects or workstreams, ensuring adherence to agreed methodologies and standards.
2. Experience in Cloud and Azure is essential
3. Planning: Prepare and maintain realistic project and quality plans. Thorough experience with MSP.
4. Estimation: Accurately estimate costs, timescales, and resource requirements for successful project delivery within the agreed scope.
5. Monitoring: Track performance against the plan, taking corrective actions when deviations occur.
6. Reporting: Provide regular reports to the Project Board and Senior Management as required.
7. Leadership: Offer effective leadership to the project team, ensuring motivation and skill development.
8. Task Allocation: Assign tasks to team members and appraise individual performance against set objectives.
9. Stakeholder Management: Represent the project team, maintaining effective relationships with the business.
10. Delegation: Agree on delegation and use of Project Assurance roles as required by the Project Board and/or Project/Programme Manager.
11. Risk Management: Identify and manage risks, developing contingency plans as necessary.
12. Liaison: Ensure overall direction and integrity of the project/business case/workstream by liaising with the management team and/or Project Board.
13. Supplier Management: Manage external suppliers when appropriate.
14. Project Closure: Ensure formal project closure and capture and action lessons learned.

Specific Skills

1. Leadership: Exceptional ability to motivate and lead others.
2. Professional Qualifications: Relevant professional designation in management and/or technology.
3. Action Orientation: Strong orientation towards action and results.
4. Discipline: Self-disciplined and reliable.
5. Policy Influence: Capacity to influence policy formation relevant to the area of expertise.
6. Stakeholder Relations: Ability to establish strong working relationships with senior stakeholders across the company.
7. Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of financial management.
8. Challenge Enjoyment: Thrives in a challenging and demanding role.
9. Pressure Handling: Ability to perform well under pressure.
10. Negotiation: Excellent negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
11. Judgement: Demonstrates sound judgement and business awareness.
12. Drive: High energy and personal drive.
13. Values Alignment: Lives the company values.
14. Technical Competency: Takes initiative to stay updated on general technical competencies and specialisations in line with industry developments.