Description
Senior Project Manager - Halifax - 3 months - Insurance/Financial Services
My client based in Halifax require a Senior Project Manager with Insurance/Financial Services experience for an initial 3 month contract. The ideal Project Manager will have come from a Development background and will take total accountability for planning, structuring, leading and executing the largest projects or programmes of high risk and complexity.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
- Plan the programme and monitor its overall progress, resolving risks and issues and initiating corrective action with allocated business owners as appropriate.
- Manage and motivate the Programme team.
- Ensure the delivery of new products or services from the projects is to appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan.
- Be responsible for the quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme.
- Manage both internal providers and third party contributions to the programme as appropriate.
- Communicate with all stakeholders.
- Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects.
- Manage the business risks associated with the programme's successful outcome.
- Report progress of the programme at regular intervals to the programme board.
- Ensure that all change adheres to standards, processes and procedures regarding governance, impact assessment and process documentation eg ensuring appropriate approvals and sign-offs, engagement from other areas of the business, and that processes and procedures are updated to reflect the changing needs of the business.
- Undertake other duties over and above those listed in the job description, appropriate to the individual's skills and experience.
Experience
- Previous experience in Project/Programme Management using leading methodologies and processes.
- Experience of managing multiple parties including project managers, business analysts, technical staff and third party vendors.
- Track record of stakeholder management with excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
If you are interested in this role and would like to discuss the position in more detail then please send a copy of your CV in the first instance.