Senior IT Project Manager
The location of the role is Coventry (4 days per week on site)
The duration of the contract is 6 months.
The pay rate on offer is £650 - £700 per day.
Industry: Aviation
Role Summary
A professional who will need to oversee a complex divestiture project. The main duties include executing requirements gathering and design, project planning, resource allocation, and project or program delivery aligned with best practices as well as company policies and procedures.
Core Responsibilities
- Manage relationships with the major stakeholder groups (a project sponsor or executive, often a senior representative of the user community, and IT leaders and sub-functions within IT) and the Project Board (includes presentations and recommendations for decisions). The major stakeholder groups are often represented by an executive, so executive communication skills are essential. This aspect of the job requires skilled relationship management, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Perform budgeting, planning, scheduling, and financial management.
- Manage the resources required for a project and follow-through with actuals such as spending and labour (time tracking). Orchestrate the work of the entire project team.
- Prepare presentations, plans, and project artefacts to communicate IT project information. Act as facilitator for constructive meetings related to a project.
- Guide and support the communications and organizational change management.
- Work with IT service transition colleagues, user representative(s), business process owners, and others to ensure effective change.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Proficient in Project Management tools (i.e., MS Project) or similar project tool (s)
- Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and web browsers.
- Knowledgeable around SAP
- Ability to research and analyse data effectively
- Demonstrates a high level of stakeholder management and communication skills, with an aptitude for dealing with IT and business colleagues and suppliers at all levels; communicates with empathy
- Attention to detail; self-starting and strong focus on completing / finishing.
- Able to effectively deal with difficult stakeholders; navigate in environments with ambiguity, change, and complexity; and achieve desired outcomes.
- Proven experience of working with matrix-managed and remote teams.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes
- Significant knowledge of multiple sub-functions of IT
