Job Description

Following a matrix style reporting approach, you will report directly into the Senior Director of Corporate IT, but have a dotted line report into the Strategic Projects Group. Using SPGs frameworks, you’ll help the Corporate IT team continue to deliver their strategic objectives to the business. You will be tasked with a range of technical projects, owning their entire life cycle from inception to deployment, including operational handover. These projects can range from new and transformational technology implementations, office openings, new clients onboardings.

You must be an enthusiastic and dynamic professional who is passionate about delivering a great product and should be excited by the challenges associated with a wide range of projects. The position requires someone who can quickly adapt and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, can work within a very diverse team & for a wide array of stakeholders in different time zones (both technical and non-technical), and has high organizational and planning skills.

You should have a strong character and a willingness to try new things and “dive in”. You will be an excellent communicator, have strong organisational skills and have the confidence to challenge stakeholders where necessary.

Key responsibilities include:

• Project Managing a range of projects, ownership of the entire project life cycle from inception to deployment and operational handover.
• Working with key stakeholders, other project managers within the organisation and external vendors to establish overall project plan, milestones and timelines.
• Agreeing and capturing the project objectives, high-level scope, timeline, budget and key deliverables with project sponsor and key stakeholders
• Working with project sponsor and key stakeholders on requirements gathering
• Establishing and owning the overall project plan, milestones and timelines
• Proactively identifying, capturing and managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions in an organised, structured and coherent way, escalating risks where necessary
• Resource management and task tracking of projects managed.
• Directing and motivating project teams by demonstrating effective leadership skills, ensuring commitments are being upheld
• Preparing and proactively disseminating project documentation (e.g. Project Charter, Project Plan, Status Reports & Risk Log) to sponsor and all stakeholders, ensuring it is up to date, fit for purpose and correctly used throughout the project lifecycle
• Managing stakeholder relationships and expectations, by providing regular project updates, keeping them appraised on the strategy, adjustments, progress, issue resolution and project results
• Ensuring that the products/deliverables are reviewed and tested, and that they meet the agreed acceptance criteria
• Ensuring the agreed solution is fit for purpose, supportable & is accepted into operational support
• Ensuring that all lessons learnt are captured, and that a benefits realisation plan has been produced.
• Serving as a mediator to internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing solutions to clients
• Weekly reporting to stakeholders or Steering Committee as appropriate on project progress, risks and issues to ensure the project’s overall direction and integrity; proactively managing sponsor and stakeholder expectations

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role
• Qualification in Prince, PMP or Equivalent is desirable.
• Experience working with projects of differing complexity
• Exposure to DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships both with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with risk, issue, resource and dependency management
• Proven experience of working across various IT platforms, both On-premise and Cloud
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Extremely organized with a strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of the basic concepts and technologies at IT level such us networking, storage, virtualization, cloud, etc.
• Knowledge of the basic concepts on IT processes. Highly recommended ITIL knowledge.
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities
• Nice to have experience working with public cloud providers
• Great communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Fluent in English
• Willingness to travel would be beneficial