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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead business operations and change initiatives. This role emphasizes stakeholder management in a fast-paced environment, requiring excellent communication and leadership skills. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in professional services, with a proven track record of managing projects from inception to completion. You will be responsible for mapping out plans, conducting analyses, and mentoring junior team members. If you thrive in dynamic settings and have a passion for driving business outcomes, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in full project lifecycle management.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills in a business context.

Responsibilities

  • Manage business-facing projects with a focus on operational processes.
  • Articulate personal contributions and outcomes effectively.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Change Management

Operational Process Management

Tools

SWOT Analysis

SDLC

Job description

Senior Project Manager, Business Operations, Business Change, Business Outcomes, PMP, Prince 2, Agile, Remote

Senior Project Manager required to work for a Professional Services business based in Central London. However, this will be based in the office circa twice a week, and the rest from home.

We need a good, seasoned Senior Project Manager with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and proven, seasoned Stakeholder Management skills. With regards to Stakeholder Management, we need someone who has worked in an environment where time is precious and it is all about being effective in the time allocated when it comes to executing solutions.

When articulating your business stakeholder management experiences, they want personalised examples rather than cliché ones. Ones that they would not necessarily have heard before and that are personal to you but good, strong ones of course.

We want someone with the following (so please read in FULL before applying):

  1. Professional Services experience or knowledge (or a very close, like for like industry)
  2. Appreciation this is NOT an IT Project Manager it is a business facing one with a slant on technology this is Operational Process driven
  3. Business related Stakeholder Management skills, not just technology ones
  4. Proven experience with Business Stakeholders / Earners who are very time precious
  5. Understanding of firm-wide and programme complexity, including lots of Change Management
  6. Having PROVEN experience in a FULL project lifecycle being there and seeing through a project from start to finish
  7. Analysing values and initiatives in order to apply the correct level of resource to each respective requirement / project really understanding the value of change
  8. Ability to articulate the techniques you used and what YOU did I was responsible for this, I was responsible for that, I influenced this, I impacted the project in this way LESS of WE
  9. Pure clarity on how to describe situations and outcomes
  10. Ability to map out plans, cost analysis, SWOT analysis etc
  11. Understanding of SDLC
  12. Leadership capabilities to assist in mentoring more Junior members of the team (Project Managers and Business Analysts)

This is a great opportunity and salary is dependent upon experience. Apply now for more details.

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