Project Manager

PROJECT MANAGER
Uxbridge – permanent role

Principle Accountabilities:
– Project Manager for application upgrade projects, each lasting approx. 3-6 months
– Management oversight of 3rd Party development team
– Oversight of all teams participating in Design, Build, Test, Business Readiness, Early Life Support
– Delivery of all products required to support the release delivery process (plans, R&I logs, lessons learned logs, communications, change requests, audit checklists etc…)
– Engage with senior IT and business management on all project updates

Secondary Accountabilities
– Work with Service Delivery to;
o Ensure service requirements, product deliverables and early life support meet expectations of Service Operations
o Define Release Cutover / Implementation activities and governance
– Support the portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope statements, risk assessments, budgets and IT Value (ROI, IRR) discussions.
– Recommend cancellation of projects and initiation of new projects within the programme

Key Responsibilities (initially)
• Ensure Projects adhere to agreed stage and gate management processes
• Attend Delivery Project meetings / Project Board meetings associated with deliveries
• Work with Internal Controls to ensure that future audit risks are assessed and remedied prior to go-live.
• Evolve the Project Delivery methodology, working with the Global Xerox IM organisation.

Candidate Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. Or equivalent work experience
in running $1m+ projects, preferably with SAP CRM/ECC/XI/BW/Portal applications.
Experience of working in multiple large scale application development / systems integration projects
PMI qualification preferred with experience in the following areas;
• virtual team management,
• stakeholder management
• risk and issue management
• proficient in the use of MS Project
• Commercial/contractual awareness
• Effective management of third party resources

Has a good level of management skills, with particular emphasis on interpersonal and negotiating skills. Must be able to lead teams successfully in a challenging environment.
Has a sound level of commercial, organisational, time management and resource management skills. With an ability to prioritise work activities, pay attention to detail and conduct meetings in an effective manner.
Excellent, and demonstrable, verbal, written and presentation skills.
Experience of the Xerox business and organisation is preferable, including TTM delivery framework, with a good broad understanding of the major business processes and in depth understanding of one or more business process areas.