Responsibilities
- Ensure the successful implementation of the business strategy, responsibilities, services and deliverables
- Monitor programme reporting and assist the team in reporting to senior management and stakeholders
- Establish frameworks and standards for programme and project management manage and compile programme related financial and KPI information oversee project costs and ensure finances are well managed
- Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across the programme
- Planned track financial reporting whilst ensuring that the programme and projects adhere to the agreed budget
- Ensure cross-programme dependencies are managed and the dependency log is accurately maintained
- Coordinate project closure to distil good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged
- Build cohesion within the team and motivate team to produce quality work
- Define and embed project control and governance
- Provide Project planning, milestone management, scope management, resource forecasting
- Financial Management; change management across the project portfolio
- Prepare regular status reporting for the engagement leadership
Requirements:
- Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling and closing projects
- Experience of managing the complete lifecycle of a project with teams of 5 to 25 people
- Experience of project management using AGILE methodology (or equivalent) for medium to large sized projects
- Strong skills in creating and maintaining project and programme plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies
- Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment
- Knowledge of benefits and dependency mapping, risk management and resource planning
- Highly proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS project
- Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations.
- Diplomatic ability to influence others at all levels of the business
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders
- Ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions
- Experience of Programme and project level financial management
- Experience of defining and delivering benefits realisation for projects and programme
