Project Manager - 6 months Contract - £500 to £600 - Hampshire

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Project Manager - 6 months Contract - £500 to £600 - Hampshire

My client is looking for a project manager for 6 months to manage multiple large-scale projects within the EMEA Portfolio. These will either be stand-alone projects or will fall within global or EMEA programs of work.

Key responsibilities for this role will include the following:

  • Production of and sign-off of business case
  • Defining project scope and deliverables and developing project plans; activity planning, sequencing and time estimating; development and management of project plans
  • Ensure governance processes are understood and followed, and appropriate stakeholders engaged at the right time
  • Determine resources needed to meet expectations. Coordinate the activities to obtain the needed resources and manage resources effectively
  • Responsible for providing statistical analysis, reporting findings, identifying enhancements, and streamlining processes
  • Identify and manage risks and issues and provide resolution
  • Develop and manage project communication plan and activities
  • Maintain various status and financial reports for projects. Ensure timely information provided to client management as appropriate. Monitoring, controlling and reporting on project progress to Stakeholders
  • Organise and facilitate the relevant Steering Committee/project board meetings
  • Third party management
  • Quality management
  • Ensure project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored
  • Cost estimating & budget management. Understand basic revenue models and P/L; meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances and initiating corrective actions.

Proven experience in:

  • The successful initiation, planning, execution and closure of projects
  • Delivering operations, risk, organisational change and IT application projects
  • Managing a project team of up to 15 resources
  • Negotiating with all parts of an organisation in order to secure resource and/or budget, meet deadlines, attain approvals, embed process and manage conflicts
  • Facilitation of project meetings; internal and third parties, including online/conference calls

Proven ability in:

  • An insurance or broking environment of at least 3 years
  • Process mapping, lean methodology and operational improvement implementation
  • Use of MS Project, Visio, Word, Excel and PowerPoint to an advanced level
  • Direction, leadership and motivation of project teams

This will be a 6 month contact paying between £500 and £600 a day. The successful candidate will have to have a Formal qualification in project management (eg PRINCE2, PMP) with Six Sigma being desirable.

There will be travel requirements required in this role, mainly to London but may also be across the EMEA region.

If you are interested in applying for this role please apply below or contact Gavin Johal

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Westbourne Partners Ltd
Published at
07.06.2016
Project ID:
1143388
Contract type
Freelance
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