Project Delivery Manager

Project Delivery Manager

Scope of the role:

1. Manage the successful delivery of The Corp business and IT projects through the design, build, testing, acceptance, commissioning and handover lifecycle.
2. Lead essential projects, managing the Corp IT project portfolio to share interdependencies and recommending trade-offs and phasing to manage competing resourcing and budget demands.
3. Manage project gate reviews with the Head of IT to ensure each project has a robust business case, controls and delivery plan.
4. Define and maintain standards for successful execution including documentation and metrics related to portfolio, programme, and project management.
5. Manage project performance via objectives and key results (OKRs), monthly reviews with project sponsors.
6. Initiate communication and improvement activities to ensure maximum alignment of The Corp Functions and IT priorities.
7. Perform risk management and mitigation - evaluating data to prevent project problems and intervening to resolve issues where required.
8. Manage staff within the project management team - coaching individuals in adopting improved project and portfolio management disciplines, fostering a supporting a hybrid/agile way of working within the team.
9. Ensure that a complete picture of workflows and technical requirements are gathered and recorded to support the development of new or existing systems/applications.
10. Responsible for supporting the businesses in identifying their requirements and working with the Solutions Architect to evaluate proposed solutions, ensuring that they meet ABF security, technical and business requirements.
11. Responsible for creating and getting sign off for all project documentation as detailed in the Corp IT Projects Run Book.
12. Develop detailed project plans, for monitoring and tracking of project deliverables.
13. Ensure projects can be fully resourced for delivery within the established project plan.
14. Manage relationships and workstreams with the business, key stakeholders, management and 3rd party suppliers.
15. Ensure risks and issues are accurately identified and recorded.
16. Ensure project gates are managed and appropriate sign off is given before proceeding to the next stage of the lifecycle.
17. Manage the portfolio of projects allocated.
18. Ensure that projects are initiated through the established Corp IT Project methodology “Front Door” demand management process.
19. Contribute input to periodic project prioritisation exercises as requested.
20. Responsible for the provision of performance information, ensuring timely and accurate reports are provided to the necessary parties.
21. Support departments Corp IT related continuous improvement activities in relation to processes, procedures and documentation.
22. Produce and maintain financial forecasts for projects by tracking project budgets, actuals, and invoices and accounting for the cause of any variances against forecasts.

Experience Required:

1. Significant overall progressive IT experience.
2. Proven experience working as a Sr. Project Manager or Programme Manager.
3. Ability to define the scope, planning, resources and deliverables of a project in order to meet customers’ expectations.
4. Ability to analyse project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
5. Ability to prioritise and delegate activities of project team.
6. Ability to mobilise and motivate a project team composed of The Corporate functions, IT and 3rd Parties.
7. Ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery and support teams at programme, project and individual level.
8. Ability to control and report on project budget and relevant project KPIs.
9. Ability to deal with and manage conflict whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation.
10. Experience of delivering a portfolio of projects to time, quality and budget.
11. Experience in delivering application, infrastructure and cloud projects.
12. ITIL / Prince 2 / APM / Agile qualified or equivalent and/or qualified by experience.
13. MS Power BI or equivalent experience for project reporting.

Responsibilities:

1. Project and programme preparation of business and IT projects with Corporate senior stakeholders.
2. Lead and manage project execution of different sizes and complexity.
3. Provide leadership and management of project teams during all phases of the projects.
4. Contribute to continuous improvement of project management practices and tools.
5. Lead role in the development of the Project Management Office, dashboards and KPIs.
6. Day-to-day management and maintenance of the project delivery roadmap.
7. Lead project delivery continuous improvement forum.
8. Management and development of Project Managers, Contractors and 3rd Parties.

The Client is based in Central London – there will be some remote working.

Salary £75K - £100K.

Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.