Project Manager

Salary: £480 – £540 per day

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Burgess Hill

Salary: £480 – £540per day Ltd/UMB pay rate or £298.36-£372.94 PAYE basic (excluding holiday pay)

6 month fixed-term contract

Our client based in Burgess Hill is looking to recruit a Project Manager. The successful candidate will provide oversight to projects, while managing key stakeholders, maintaining programme and project documentation and mitigating risks to ensure service continuity and smooth transition/handover to BAU.

Interfacing directly with multiple internal and external stakeholders, the Project Manager will adopt the clients best practices (Prince 2, Agile and hybrid methodologies) to guarantee quality implementation and ensure projects stay on track to meet agreed deadlines. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction (internal and external) you will closely collaborate with all the teams involved to ensure delivery and KPIs achievement.

Responsibilities

General:

• Establish strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate smooth implementation – from requirements gathering to handing over to BAU.
• Work with PPM team colleagues to review and enhance procedures and templates on an ongoing basis to ensure continual improvement of Project Management and Project Control methodologies that will help achieve consistently high standards.
• Champion Project governance and escalation approach; fostering conflict resolution.
• Manage strict timescales/milestones and resources to ensure delivery of the project outputs
• Identify and address risks/issues to ensure the success of the project(s) in charge of, and review detailed lessons learned, assumption and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle

Requirements

Essential:

• Strong Communicator, with experience of communicating with impact at multiple levels within an organisation, via multiple channels.
• Organised, precise, used to hosting meetings, with soft negotiation skills.
• Enjoys working with people and can resolve conflicts prioritize accordingly.
• Independent Worker, who is able to manage their own time to deliver goals.
• Passionate about delivery and overcoming obstacles to achieve timelines.
• Demonstrates empathy, leads by example, enjoys project management and genuinely cares about their projects, their team and organisation.

Desirable:

• Minimum 3 year experience within Project Management (IT projects included)
• Experience in delivering projects in various methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• Experience in producing high-quality Project artefacts
• Experience in Requirements Gathering
• Solid understanding and experience in risk and issue management.

For more information, please contact Angela Potter at Clearline Recruitment.