Digital Project Manager - Telecommunications and Utilities Location: Bristol Rate: £400 per day (outside IR35) Duration: initial 6-month contract followed by rolling extensions Hybrid. 3 days on site per week. Ideal candidates will have experience within the nuclear, energy, construction or manufacturing sectors. Candidates with experience in Engineering Change Management and IT System Integrations will also be prioritised. About the Role: An international telecommunications organisation is seeking an experienced Digital Project Manager to help ensure a variety of small to medium sized IT related projects are delivered on time, within budgets and to a high degree of quality. You will work for the organisation on a project for a renowned international energy company. You will be assigned to a number of project and report to a Senior Projects / Programme Manager who will support and be a point of escalation. You must have suitable practical experience of project managing technical and functional change at workstream level from inception to implementation on complex projects. You will work with a group of experienced Consultant and Contractors from different organisations. You will also develop and nurture relationships with business counterparts to and ensure that they become “the voice of the business” to enable the design teams to accurately understand business requirements, ways of working and desired outcomes. Key Responsibilities: Working within the Digital and IT Team, project manage the implementation and delivery of multiple small to medium projects to Time, Cost and Quality. Plan and organise the activities and related meetings and touchpoints across the projects assigned to them. Drive and ensure delivery of the planned activities whilst providing delivery assurance oversight. Manage the Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies. Produce the Project Delivery Plan to fulfil activities on the pipeline. Manage and produce weekly project reporting and submit to a deadline. Coordinate project dependency tasks between services lines within Digital and IT. Support the Digital & IT finance team with the overall IM finances. Manage the delivery of key documentation and assurance processes to ensure quality is “Right First Time”. Main Accountabilities Within small to medium scale projects co-ordinate the programme’s workstreams, on a day-to-day basis on behalf of senior management, to ensure maximum efficiency in the allocation of common resources and skills. Manage 3rd party Supplier resources and engagements on the Project Facilitate the appointment of project managers to the project delivery teams and manages their assignment Ensure that the appropriate environment is developed to support project managers, including the processes and practices for managing projects utilising Digital and IT delivery best practice. Ensure that there is efficient allocation of common resources and skills within the project portfolio Implement systems, processes, and measures to ensure that exceptions, slippage and issues of priority are effectively managed, and that extra activities are initiated wherever gaps in the programme are identified Monitor overall progress and initiates corrective action, as appropriate, to ensure that deliverable is produced on time, within budget and to acceptable quality Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between there projects and other deliveries Manage the communications with all stakeholders Report progress of the project at regular intervals to the Sponsor, Steering Group or Senior Management Manage the project budget, costs and accruals process using assigned tools and processes. Knowledge & Experience Effective leadership competencies with excellent written and oral communication Great interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage people at all levels Confident decision-making ability with good protocols for gaining stakeholder agreement where necessary Management of multiple business change workstreams operating within a multi-million-pound change portfolio, preferably in an IT environment Experience in project management, ideally in an IT technical or functional area Skilled in MS Project, Word, Excel and PowerPoint - Great organisational skills