Project Manager

Role Overview

We are looking for high-caliber candidates: self-starters who are confident in client-facing roles. You are passionate about delivering outstanding client outcomes through delivering quality software and services.

You will be aligned with the industry sector in order to create greater value for our clients who want the expertise of their sector’s business and technology needs.

Your role is to work with the client to accelerate the achievement of their business goals by leading the project team and successfully delivering our software.

Key Responsibilities:-

As a Project Manager, your mission is to collaborate with the client through the project lifecycle in cross-functional teams.

This involves:

• Working with the senior management team to structure and allocate people to projects
• Leading the team and pace of the project
• Partnering with our clients to take them through the delivery lifecycle
• Working with clients to establish an agreed way of working and ‘one-team’ Mind-set
• Working with cross-functional teams to develop delivery plans, costs, and estimates
• Setting up project governance and ensuring project delivery excellence
• Setting priorities, on-boarding and coordinating the team to deliver to plan and budget, and build delivery confidence
• Managing key stakeholders, reporting project status and progress as well as supporting accurate invoicing
• Alongside your client-facing role, you will play an active role in developing our business. In order to deliver the best products and services to our clients, we need to continually refine and improve our delivery processes, training, and knowledge using the latest industry tools and techniques
  Key Attributes, Skills, and Experience

We are looking for a range of experience; candidates need to demonstrate these across one or more of the following:

• Can-do attitude– ability to quickly pick up and use new program Management, project delivery, product, and technology skills
• Smarts – rapidly understand our client’s business and our team’s resolve challenges and issues. You will also have a depth and breadth of experience across a variety of roles and several companies
• Client-facing experience – build lasting client relationships, be personal, credible and engage our clients with gravitas and integrity
• Clear communication skills – our clients and teams need clear direction; precise succinct and jargon-free
• Project Management experience – proven experience of the end to end package software delivery lifecycle for small projects (team size of c. 5 – 20) including:
• Championing pragmatic project discipline to reduce delivery risk and to accelerate timeliness (this includes setting up project governance, managing to agreed scope, clear sign-offs and gateways, identifying and Mitigating project risks)
• RFI / RFP support to review the proposed solution and lead the inception of the next phase of work
• Accelerating project Mobilization – working with the client to understand their challenge, how best to approach it, and organize a team to deliver it
• Managing the project definition phase-with the client and a cross-functional team Create a delivery plan, estimation
• Navigating project challenges – demonstrating how you build delivery confidence and how you have managed the project in a pressured client-facing environment
• Managing onshore/offshore delivery – working alongside the Technical Lead, work with our offshore partners to Manage development and deployments
• Transitioning project delivery into Warranty and Production support