Responsibilities
1. Planning: Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives.
2. RAID Management: Identify, manage, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
3. Finance Management: Monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery.
4. Reporting: Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues.
5. Quality Management: Ensure all deliverables meet the required quality standards
Qualifications
6. Desirable Certifications: MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2
Essential skills
7. Strong understanding of the systems development lifecycle.
8. The ability to understand and lead the construction of system & data integrations
9. Excellent client-facing skills
10. Ability to think logically and use own initiative as well as mine in-house and supplier IP to build on your knowledge base with regards to the industry and the project/programme.
11. Able to apply project management disciplines such as stakeholder identification and management, supplier management, risk and issue logs, decision logs
12. Strong understanding of Waterfall methodologies
13. Strong understanding of Agile (Kanban & Scrum)
14. Experience of working with Programme and Project managers in large deployments
15. People management skills – the ability to lead and focus teams in complex projects
16. Strong self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
17. Desire to continue to build IT domain knowledge– tools, applications, platforms
18. Desire to embrace and work within new industries
19. An analytical mindset to ensure details are not overlooked and that the critical path is managed throughout the project
20. Strong communication skills in English are essential for effectively interacting with clients
21. Microsoft Project
Experience
22. Experience in data migration from legacy systems to new, including culling of non-essential data and consideration of parallel runs (test environment/production) and multi-wave implementation to production.
23. Experience of leading large-scale projects with multiple sub-projects and inter-dependencies.
24. Supplier Management – managing external suppliers to ensure that the scope of work is delivered within time, cost and quality constraints.
25. Change Management in terms of processes and procedures, organisational change, training and documentation.
26. Comfortable working within a hybrid Waterfall/Agile framework
What do I need before I apply
27. The expectation is that you will be able to work on client site in Buckinghamshire 1-2 days per week or as the programme requires.
28. Fluency in English is required to effectively communicate with clients.
Benefits
29. Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
30. We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
31. Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
32. Competitive company benefits
33. Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
34. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
35. Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
36. Communicating and promoting vacancies
37. Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
38. Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
39. Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive