Project Manager
Solihull
6 month contract
IN SCOPE OF IR35
Job Profile:
The role of the Project Manager is to be solely responsible for managing the delivery of either business projects, working with the Business Service Analysts, Solution Architects & Developers to deliver a project from analysis through design and implementation, resolving complex social, commercial and technical problems. All projects to deliver to time, cost and quality having first negotiated and agreed the success measures with the 3rd party suppliers, with responsibility for risk and issue escalation, budget management, team management and motivation and product delivery.Implementation of the changes undertaken in the project will require the engagement and support of Service Transition and Service Owners.
Principal Accountabilities:
Planning and Organising
*Manage the project delivery of either the application services or infrastructure services from the 3rd party suppliers
*Ensure projects are resourced / sourced and delivered to time, cost and quality and identify continuous improvement initiatives that deliver business benefit.
*Ensure adherence to agreed project management methodologies, both Waterfall & Agile, and quality procedures within Innogy Business Services
*Monitor, reporting on and regularly review supplier performance against targets, identifying improvement actions as appropriate and ensuring these actions are implemented
*In situations that require a hybrid Agile approach, using good judgement and skill to develop a project management approach that is suitable for planning and managing the effort to achieve the project goals within designated project constraints
*Use a high level of knowledge and experience in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach in the right proportions to fit large, complex projects and with the appropriate level of planning and provide the right balance of agility and predictability
Policies, Processes, and Procedures
*Ensuring that interfaces and dependencies between suppliers and internal supporting services are agreed and documented and managed with Service Integration and Transition Manager
Communication and Influencing
*Liaise with the Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment to overall service design and strategic direction
*Achieve business priorities by working with other Innogy Business Services Management and customer in identifying and prioritising projects with the Business Partners across the portfolio
Customer Focus/ Awareness
*Providing an operational interface between the business and 3rd party supplier
Knowledge and Skills:
Qualifications
*Relevant Project management Qualifications/accreditations in project methodologies, ideally PRINCE2 & Scrum
Experience
*5 - 10 years experience in Project Management and the delivery of IT projects
*Experience working within the Utilities industry, preferably Gas and Power
*Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
*Balanced business/technical background:
*Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly-credible leadership to development teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
*Ability to provide leadership to business analysts and collaborate with customers and develop strategies and solutions of high business value
Skills
*Good interpersonal skills, demonstrating a variety of influencing styles to enable effective completion of tasks both individually and within groups
*Excellent verbal, written and oral communications skills with the ability to clearly present solutions at all levels and will be seen as subject matter expert.
*Demonstrates an ability to think outside the box while defining solutions in a workable form and evaluates options efficiently and provides considered conclusions and direction
*Able to converse with business and technical experts in a language appropriate to the audience
*Able to manage self, multi task and manage the delivery of competing priorities at the same time
*Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools:
oAgile Project Management tools such as Jira
oMicrosoft Project, Visio, and all Office Tools
*Ability to apply business best practice as well as follow industry standards in order to ensure quality is applied and maintained
Knowledge
*Knowledge and experience in managing the of best practice delivery from 3rd party suppliers
*Knowledge and adherence to the Innogy Business Services information security policy
*Understanding of the current business and technical strategies, policies and standards of Innogy Business Services
*Demonstrated track record of developing successful projects in a similar regulated environment
*Risk Management experience including identification and mitigation of risks
*Experience in business systems and process planning
*Experience of financial management responsibility and reporting against project
Personal Qualities
*Flexible, well organised and professional with a proactive attitude.
*Excellent attention to detail
*Appreciates the importance of commercial constraints or operating in a multisource environment.
There may be some travel required to other UK sites occasionally