Job Title: Technical Project Manager - Newcastle
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: Competitive + package (dependent on experience)
Hybrid Working: Please note this role requires working from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office minimum 3 days per week.
Security Clearance: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, requiring 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) at the point of application.
Team Overview: Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Accenture Technology powers our clients to achieve high performance, combining business and industry insights with innovative technology. We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful alliance ecosystem of market leaders and innovators to provide the best specialised skills and tailored solutions.
Learning Opportunities:
* Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.
* You’ll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
Responsibilities:
* Help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
* Be part of a 'Truly Human' environment. Accenture provides an extensive network of over 1,300 trained mental health allies and prioritises mental health at the top of our UKI Inclusion & Diversity Agenda.
Qualifications:
* Ability to successfully manage a number of critical client projects – navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.
* Adaptable approach to work, with an ability to turn your hand to a number of delivery oriented tasks.
* Deep, broad understanding of delivery approaches and best practice – may have a mix of Service, Transition or Programme Management experience.
* Understand technical information and concepts and translate them into business/operational focused information with the instinct to question things.
* Highly organised and able to plan for short, medium and long-term objectives; experience guiding a team to meet those objectives.
* Able to design and implement the measurement and reporting of metrics which help to inform delivery improvement activities.
* Able to identify ways to improve software delivery and own the implementation of improvement activities.
* Strong service-oriented attitude and a cooperative and mature approach to working with a client, in a team and as an individual.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Experienced in delivering Agile at scale and managing multi-disciplinary teams.
* Aware of modern delivery operating models (DevOps).
* Familiar with Agile delivery tools to provide clients with clear, concise and dynamic communications.
Additional Skills:
* Additional ITIL Service Management, Project Management, or Agile certifications.
* Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the other suite of Microsoft Office products.
* Experience working with Agile Delivery tools (e.g., JIRA).
* Experience identifying opportunities for automation and implementing them.
* Experience working within the Health & Public Sector, with familiarity with GDS principles.
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Strategy/Planning and Information Technology
Industries: Business Consulting and Services
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