Senior Technical Transformation Programme Manager (Active Directory) – Finance
Daily rate: £600 – £750 inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Start: ASAP
Hybrid: London/Nottingham
My client is looking for a Senior Technical Programme Manager to join a multi year Transformation Programme which spans the whole of their Global Business. MUST have experience with Active Directory. To project manage key delivery workstream/s. To provide support and leadership to the PMO office at a programme level across multiple workstreams
Project and Programme Management:
1. Delivery of projects & workstreams according to agreed time / budget / scope / quality / change control criteria.
2. Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these workstreams and sub-projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve objectives.
3. Ensuring the development of accurate plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.
4. Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex projects, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.
5. Conducting regular reviews of outcomes, both internally with delivery team and with clients / senior stakeholders during and after the delivery has been completed
6. Acting as an escalation point, providing support and guidance to PMs across multiple workstreams
Operational
7. Establish project and workstream assurance as a formal discipline
8. Proactively identify issues through the use of standard assurance techniques; audits, plan reviews, etc. Provide suggested remedial plans as appropriate
9. Ensure there is sufficient capability and capacity within the function to conduct assurance reviews
10. Provide regular reports on project and workstream performance and overall portfolio health
11. Provide confidence that projects and workstream will deliver to time, cost and quality
12. Provide ongoing assurance at project and programme level
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
13. Strong understanding and application of Project and Programme Management competencies including stakeholder management, contracts, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
14. Experience managing technical projects and programmes and ability to collaborate with technical SMEs and delivery teams
15. Strong understanding and application of change management competencies
16. Effective leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills
17. Strong ability to manage relationships whilst maintaining trusted relationship with team and peers
18. Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the organization’s systems and processes
19. Ability to apply analytical skills and conceptual thinking to both short term and long-term operations and systems planning over a wide range of technologies
20. Financial literacy to forecast and manage workstream, project and departmental budgets, costs and revenue
21. Ability to influence and build productive relationships with key stakeholders (both internal and external)
22. Ability to advocate and instill cultural improvement, discipline and communications
23. Ability to encourage innovation
24. Ability to achieve improvements in delivery quality, staff motivation and role flexibility and can operate equally well at strategic or operational levels
25. Proven ability defining and executing on the Project’s purpose and direction in terms of vision, mission, values and objectives
26. Project governance against improved project delivery lifecycle processes and escalated risk mitigation and issue resolution
27. Ability to identify and manage resource requirements
28. Excellent knowledge of project management methodology and tools, including software
29. Excellent knowledge of computer systems and processes and PC desktop applications
30. Strong knowledge of business unit products and operations
31. Strong knowledge of legislation and regulations impacting business unit industry
32. Advanced oral and written communication skills
Desirable (not essential):
33. Knowledge & Experience of Active Directory
*Rates depend on experience and client requirements