Senior Project Manager
Capio Group
PMPSDLC
Senior Delivery Manager
King's Service Centre
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Responsible for successfully delivering IT based change in a large complex environment, leading a diverse multi-skilled team
- Manage change initiatives from start to finish, including Procurement, and Finance and Budget Management
- Build positive working relationships across a wide stakeholder community including external partner organisations
- Drive the creation of benefits realisation plans
- Demonstrate managerial skills such as coaching, motivation, managing performance
- For Waterfall specialists: define, document and deliver IT projects in line with the King’s project delivery standards; plan, identify and secure resources for work packages; monitor resource utilisation and expenditure against budget; produce plan and budget reports; manage IT procurement activities including tender development, evaluation, supplier selection and contract negotiation; provide mentoring and matrix manage staff, contractors and vendors; ensure project and risk management processes are maintained; contribute to benefits realisation plans
- For Agile specialists: act as servant leader and coach for an Agile team; educate the team in Scrum, Built-in-Quality, Kanban and SAFe; improve flow by removing impediments; assist decision makers with review, prioritisation and optimisation of the portfolio; build high-performing teams by coaching, fostering collaboration and resolving conflicts
Requirements
- Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualifications / experience
- Recognised Project Management Certification or Agile Delivery certification e,g, Prince2 Practitioner, APMP PMQ, SAFe Certified Scrum Master
- Experienced at providing expertise managing delivering value with a diverse team
- Significant experience of managing, inspiring, engaging and motivating a team, using interpersonal skills to achieve excellent results
- Ability to identify and manage priorities, whilst considering the needs of a diverse range of stakeholders
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate confidently, articulating ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Significant experience of working with third parties to deliver IT Solutions
- Prince2 Practitioner, APMP PMQ, PMI PMP (for Waterfall)
- Excellent project planning and dependency management skills (for Waterfall)
- Knowledge of contract lifecycles, vendor management and procurement (for Waterfall)
- SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification (for Agile)
- ITIL Foundation qualifications (Desirable)
- Line management of other Project Managers (Desirable)
- Additional desirable domain experience as listed in the role advertisement, likely to be immediately relevant to the role
