Head of Project Management

Head of Project Management

Akkodis are currently working in partnership with a leading service provider to recruit an experienced Head of Project Management with a proven history of managing a high volume of projects and Project Managers within an enterprise organisation.

The Role

As the Head of Project Management you will manage a team of project managers to deliver a portfolio of complex, multi-threaded, multi-site, high value projects.

The Responsibilities

• Actively involved in project take on, working with the technology office team to align priorities, manage resource capacity/availability and forecast the project pipeline
• Responsible for estimating and pricing of the project elements of bids to effectively scope the project requirements.
• Run Project Definition Workshops to define requirements and accurately scope project outcomes.
• Shape the teams on complex, multi-threaded, multi-site, high value projects to deliver outcomes in line with project definition.
• Coordinate and plan resource requirements to ensure project outcome deadlines are adhered to.
• Develop, build, and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally to achieve project objectives.
• Responsible for stakeholder management reports through relevant tools to provide up to date information on project progress.
• Responsible for the required project documentation to enable successful project outcomes.
• Responsible for ensuring projects consistently adhere to the internal governance framework.
• Line manage a team of Project and Senior Project Managers.

The Requirements

• An experienced Head of Projects with a strong track record in portfolio delivery, assurance, governance and methodology.
• You will have a track record of actively contributing to, and being accountable for, engagement outcomes and delivering operational excellence from the portfolio's delivered.
• Experienced in line management of a team of project managers, setting objectives, setting variable pay objectives, driving workloads and ensuring the quality of the project delivery.
• Responsible for maximizing resource allocation based on resource availability and prioritised projects.
• You will be used to managing virtual teams across multiple locations and will come from a background where the focus will have been on technology-oriented projects, across either Applications, Security or Infrastructure type IT projects.
• A track record of managing a portfolio of costs, reporting on the costs into senior management.
• Experience of conflict management and issue resolution is also required. .
• Your experience should be backed up with evidence of working in a structured manner and complying with defined standards and processes using a range of approaches including waterfall and Agile.
• Ideally you will hold a Prince2 Practitioner qualification, ISEB or APM qualification and, preferably, a Prince2Agile or Scrum qualification.

If you are looking for an exciting new challenge to play a pivotal part in a market leading organisation please apply now.

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