Project Manager
Salary £50-60K per annum
Permanent - Full Time
Remote Working - occasional travel to team meetings in Central London
Essential Qualifications/ Certifications
Essential:
- Project Management qualification and ability to demonstrate experience of its application.
- Desirable: Agile qualification and ability to demonstrate experience of its application.
Essential Experience & Skills
- Strong delivery track record as a Project Manager with experience delivering small to complex technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills across technical and business stakeholders.
- Excellent presentation skills of simple and complex topics.
- Project or Programme Management experience in Telecommunications sector.
- Desirable Product Management experience in an agile environment.
Reporting to the Head of Projects, the Project Manager will;
- Take responsibility for the delivery of projects within the Group PMO for the organisation.
- Own multiple projects at a time, working closely with business stakeholders to scope and then deliver on time and to budget with the agreed quality & standards.
- Be assigned to a functional domain so knowledge of the domain and the industry is expected.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- The Project Manager needs to be a strong communicator to ensure all levels understand what is/needs to be done.
Project Management activities including:
- Leadership: Own and drive Projects to support strategic goals. Driving multi-disciplined teams to successful outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Support stakeholders during the project lifecycle to leverage effective support and decision with a strong emphasis on trust.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to drive success in project delivery.
- Reporting: Prepare regular project status reports for both internal stakeholders and customers, ensuring transparency and alignment on progress and milestones.
- Governance: Adherence to the PMO processes and collateral around how to run projects using the appropriate toolset(s).
- Risk Management: Own management of Risk & Issues for all projects allocated.
- Change Management: Own management of Change for all projects allocated.
- Plan Management: Own the Plan for all projects allocated, ensuring it is up to date and accurate at all times.
- Artefact Management: Ensure all project related artefacts are controlled and managed during the lifecycle of the project.
- Financial Management: Ensure the projects are delivered to agreed cost, with all finances tracked and reported against.
- Quality Management: Ensure all project activities are following agreed quality standards.
Thought Leadership including:
- Support increasing the competency and effectiveness of the Group PMO.
- Identification of process improvements and efficiencies that can reduce delivery timelines without impacting quality.
- Look to implement new tools and ways of working that add value to the Group PMO and the business.
- Challenge the status-quo.
Mentoring & Support including:
- Provide coaching & mentoring to members of the team to help them understand the role of a Project Manager and how to deal with stakeholders.
- Support increasing the competency and skills in the team.
- Ask questions and challenge the way we work to help understand and improve.
Teamwork including:
- Demonstrate teamwork and take ownership of problems through to resolution.
- Seek positive outcomes where possible and always seek better outcomes.
- Support the rest of the Group PMO to be the best they can be.
- Undertake ad-hoc requests and other activities as necessary
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Last updated on Oct 30, 2023