Project Manager

Project Manager – Slough (with travelling involved) – £45,000-£55,000

Main Purpose of the Role

The Project Manager is responsible for achieving the customer satisfaction, revenue, profit targets and quality standards for their assigned projects.

The Project Manager is responsible for the day to day project management during various phases of the project cycle for multiple, simultaneous medium to large customer implementations. These projects may involve medium to high levels of complexity and may also involve multiple solutions and technical environments.

During the lifecycle of a customer project, the Project Manager serves as the primary customer service liaison between the company and customer.

Main Responsibilities and Duties

To manage the delivery of contracted products and services for all customers/projects as allocated, in line with PME governance processes.
To agree project and financial deliverables with the customer and document these in a clear and unambiguous way.
The establishment and maintenance of a project repository and all associated documentation and deliverables
To ensure all project revenues are invoiced in accordance with the contracted payment terms
To actively mentor and tutor less experienced Project Managers in the management of projects and the use of the PME process.
To direct and motivate the Project Team (Company, Client and potential 3rd party staff ) via matrix management to ensure that project and financial deliverables are achieved.
To liaise with and manage third party suppliers to achieve the agreed deliverables.
To plan and monitor all elements of the project and produce supporting control and change documentation to agreed standards. In addition, to agree at the outset the technical and quality strategy for the project, with the appropriate project board members.
To define and own corrective action plans and escalations in the event of any deviation from the project plan (known as the exception plan).
To prepare pertinent and accurate project documentation and plans (in line with PME) to allow the company and the Customer clear visibility of the project status.
To organise, chair and act as the company representative in regular customer project meetings. To produce minutes from these meetings and ensure actions are completed as agreed.
To provide management information on the project to the customer in line with PME Governance This will include, but is not limited to; financial reports, highlight reports, work plans, issue lists, agreed actions, risk notification, impact resolution plans, lessons learned reports, follow on action recommendations and end project report.
To manage the Project deliverables to ensure that they remain in scope of the PID, and where deliverables fall out of scope to use the agreed Change Control procedures.
To escalate issues to appropriate levels of management within the company and Customer
To pro-actively manage and maximise any opportunities to increase revenue by use of Change Control.
To work with Sales/Pre-Sales when requested by line management to prepare high level estimates, project plans and draft PIDs for submission into the sales process.
May assist in the creation of training material and may be needed to conduct customer on-site or classroom based training for company solutions Essential Skills

Excellent Project Management Skills
Resource Planning Skills
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Project
Working Knowledge of other IT applications, i.e. email and MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio).
Competent general IT skills for documentation, spreadsheets, email, etc.
Multi-Language skills desirable (e.g. English, German, French, Dutch) Qualifications and Experience

1. Prince II Certification or equivalent (or willing to work towards), essential

2. Experience as a Project Manager in the Retail, Hospitality or Petroleum & Convenience sector, which will include experience working on Tier 1 and Tier 2 enterprise software implementation projects.

Client expectations and project commitments can become challenging and so the individual must be aware that on certain projects they may have to work additional / unsocial hours (without additional pay or benefits) to meet delivery commitments.

The Project Manager may also be asked to attend meetings at locations which may necessitate overnight travel, which could include international travel.

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