IT PMO Project Manager
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05-12-2023
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Job Description
" Winners of Working Families Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020 we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life"
We at the Huntsman Group are now actively looking for someone to join our clients IT & Transformations growing team.
Hours: 09:00 17:00 Monday to Friday (35 hours per week)
Department: IT PMO
Location: Liverpool
Salary Neg DOE up to 50k
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or backup care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
Introduction to the role:
Our client have embarked upon an ambitious consolidation and upgrade roadmap and current projects include the migration of our entire infrastructure into the Cloud migrating their DMS (iManage) to a SAAS offering upgrading their finance systems (Aderant) and replacing the businesswide HR platform with a new solution (Ceridian Day Force). They are also working on several cyber security projects.
Along with the above they have a portfolio of circa 25 further projects in the pipeline for kick off this financial year and are looking to extend their project management team to help with the delivery of this challenging complex and interesting workload.
As a team you will responsible for the full delivery lifecycle of their projects from initial kick off meetings requirements capture testing delivery business readiness rollout and finally handover to BAU support. Outside of the wider IT Change and Ops team they work closely with others within the business including the legal business groups Learning & Development Internal Communications Finance & Operations.
They have no inhouse development rather they focus on working with suppliers who provide them with specialist software services configured to meet their needs.
Project Managers are responsible for the management of the suppliers along with ensuring that the defined solution meets the internal stakeholders needs.
The broad range of support they provide means that the role that of a Project Manager is a varied and challenging one. Because of the variety of their work they do not adhere to a specific methodology rather they work to suit the needs of the project and the delivery team on a per project basis as they see fit.
They do however follow a formal delivery process for documentation reporting and governance.
Introduction to the team:
The IT Delivery Change and Operations Teams are a group of more than fifty individuals covering multiple specialisms. Based across Liverpool Manchester London and Singapore the team are responsible for the strategy planning delivery cyber security service management and 24/7 support of all IT Services to almost 1000 staff globally within their 100m turnover firm.
Sitting at the heart of this wider team the PMO currently comprises six project managers five business analysts three QA analysts and a PMO analyst. They are responsible for the planning and delivery of all IT projects across the board and our work touches every part of the business. Alongside this we also work with the business to deliver continuous improvement utilising Lean Six Sigma methodology to ensure that we are keeping internal processes lean and therefore providing best value for our clients.
A closeknit team who work exceptionally well together and we re proud of the ethos they have developed. They work hard and take delight in their achievements however they strive for continuous improvement and look to each other to share and learn as they go.
Key responsibilities:
Project Initiation:
- Working with the PMO Analyst ensure projects are setup and initiated consistent with project governance
- Working with Portfolio Team facilitate the definition of highlevel customer requirements to produce project initial project scope goals and deliverables
- Along with our IT Business CoOrdinator develop a deep understanding of the necessary budget for the project for business approval
- Develop the necessary Project Brief for review and approval with the key delivery team
Supplier Onboarding:
- Work with Risk and Compliance Cyber Security & Finance Teams to onboard suppliers
- Carry out contractual reviews with inhouse legal team and suppliers
- Complete SOW reviews with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met and any variables are acceptable
Project Delivery:
- Along with the Business Analysis & Quality Assurance Teams work with internal stakeholders to capture detailed requirements and test cases
- Work with suppliers to review requirements and understand & document and gaps / risks / required process changes etc.
- Develop and agree initial project plans with all parties including external suppliers
- Identify appropriate resources and assign responsibilities
- Manage project tasks and resources to carry out the work and ensure quality of delivery
- Host daily stand ups and weekly project review meetings with project delivery team (including external suppliers)
- Manage project expenditure against budget
- Manage fluctuations in project timescales replanning where necessary
- Manage scope creep with internal stakeholders and suppliers
- Work with infrastructure team to prepare for rollout
- Undertake lessons learnt sessions at necessary junctures within the project timeline and feedback to peers
Risk & Issue Management
- Identify and track risks to the project and work to mitigate where possible
- Identify early impending issues and escalate for assistance to the project board when necessary
Communication
- Draw up weekly highlight reports to project board and stakeholders
- Host and minute weekly steering groups for larger projects
- Prepare and host monthly project boards for all projects
Business Readiness
- Work with fellow Project Managers Infrastructure Managers and PMO Analyst to control the delivery of change into the business
- Work with Internal Communications to prepare the business for upcoming change
- Working with Learning and Development to develop relevant training packages
- Support the team in delivering training where necessary
- Work with IT Support Desk to ensure they re onboard with changes to allow them to best support colleagues
- Support the business post go live
Next Steps
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IT PMO Project Manager
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