Assistant Vice President – Project Management

Assistant Vice President – Project Management

Requirements

• Significant practical experience of leading and managing Corporate/Infrastructure change programmes across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation
• Extensive hands-on experience of delivering complex IT change projects in a fast-moving organisation
• Have responsibility of delivering change programmes with budgets in excess of £1m
• Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases
• Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems
• Experience delivering large Microsoft based Infrastructure/Desktop, Linux/Unix, cloud services and security focused projects – good all round knowledge of most things in the infrastructure/application delivery space
• Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project
• Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans
• Strong personal work ethic
• Motivated delivery focused individual
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proven ability managing projects in a fast paced, complex, demanding environment

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Project Sponsor, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors)
• Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilising resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects which report into a wider Portfolio of change
• Responsible for detailed project reporting and governance adherence
• Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments
• Agrees and formalizes plans, conducts or co-ordinates required business analysis where necessary
• Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external
• Create project business case for all projects and ensure the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope and budget
• Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Effectively apply, support and champion the CLS Governance methodology and enforce project standards
• Review deliverables prepared by the project team before company-wide review
• Identify all project resources and where necessary work with the PMO to secure project support resources
• Identify and lead the virtual project team
• Manage, mitigate and report project risks and issues
• Where required, recruiting project staff and consultants
• Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Detailed project planning and control including: Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan, Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan, Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary, Resolving cross-functional issues at project level, Managing project scope and change control, Monitoring project progress and performance from a benefit realisation, time, cost and quality perspective, Providing status reports
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management
• From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports
• Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections, apply analysis to this data to make project decisions and provide reporting of this data

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Project Management Certification (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)
• Professional PM accreditation (Prince 2, PMI, APM etc…)
• Significant project management experience