About This Role

• Responsibility for delivery of a project or a work stream within a programme, ensuring delivery is on time, within budget, to scope
• Ensures the application of the appropriate project management disciplines, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, issue, lessons learned and dependency management, including escalation/resolution of issues and contingency planning for risks
• Establishes an effective project organisation structure and responsible for project team shaping, building, development, management, and motivation including project resource planning, task allocation, prioritisation and monitoring
• Responsible for the budget reporting, forecasting and expenditure associated with projects
• Responsible for ensuring that the delivered project or work stream meets the needs of the business as specified in the original requirements
• Manages and contributes to the selection of supplier delivery relationships for technical partners, software vendors and contract agencies
• Responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and key customers, ensuring delivery meets requirements

• Proven decision making ability
• Ability to manage and develop people effectively
• Good communication & influencing skills, at all levels and up to ‘Head of’ level
• Proficient in planning and organising
• Role model for Project manager behaviours, skills and disciplines
• Line Management responsibility for up to 6 direct reports
• Task allocation and delivery responsibility for a small / medium project team (typically up to 15-20 staff) in a matrix management structure
• Contributes to the setting of project budgets and provides input to estimating and forecasting for project/programme
• Management of IT project budget typically in the region of £0.5m - 1.5m
• Project/workstream likely to be of moderate strategic importance but usually impacting one main business units

Hiring Manager: Sarah Colegate Email: sarah.colegate@diligenta.co.uk

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