Project Manager
Isle of Man
Contract
Our client seeks a Project Manager to join their team for a rolling contract, for a minimum of 3 months.
If you're an experienced Project Manager who combines strong delivery skills with business and systems analysis expertise, enjoys working in a collaborative environment and is motivated by turning ideas into tangible results, this could be an exciting next step in your career.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the delivery of projects and be accountable to senior executives on the delivery.
- Contribute to project roadmaps and be able to breakdown and plan activities into their component parts.
- Develop user stories in line with agile project principles.
- Manage external suppliers, vendors and partners to ensure project goals are met.
- Drive awareness of milestones and task execution and ensure senior management are aware of potential blockers and delays.
- Adapt and use project methodologies for different types of projects.
- Undertake programme reporting and budgetary oversight.
- Organise and support agile sprints.
- Define project scope and project roadmap.
- Organise and lead project meetings, workshops, retrospectives and implementation activities.
- Focus on regular, timely delivery of value.
- Prepare and distribute progress reports.
- Manage project risks and issues.
- Correct deviations from project plans.
- Perform delivery planning.
- Manage stakeholder communications.
- Working closely with your teams on project communication strategies.
- Mentor junior project managers and be an advocate for change across the business.
- Support the Sponsor in defining scope, schedule, suitable metrics and priorities.
- Liaise with colleagues in the wider Group to ensure alignment on support matters.
- Help manage customer expectations.
- Implement effective project governance and controls.
- Champion ongoing process improvement and best practices.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years project management experience.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Team, Microsoft Project and Visio.
- Previous experience of Banking, Investment and General Ledger platforms.
- Previous project management of data, system migrations and upgrades.
- Agile experience.
- Proven track record of successfully implementing software, IT and business projects.
- Experience leading multi-function project teams.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to establish / maintain high levels of customer trust and confidence.
- Excellent presentation skills and able to present and articulate project progress up to Board level.
- Participation in Digital Transformation programmes in a Banking and Investment industry.
- Experience in either a Business Analysis or Systems Analysis role.
Your specialist: Mark Burman
Quote job ref: 16784
Hi, I'm Mark and I look after all the temp / contract roles. If this exciting job sounds up your street, please submit your details, we look forward to hearing from you.
