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Senior Project Manager

Lorien
Posted a day ago, valid for 17 days
Location

Perth, Perth and Kinross PH1 5AX, Scotland

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The company is seeking a Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • The position is initially for a 6-month contract, located in Perth or Glasgow, and falls under IR35 regulations.
  • Candidates should have a minimum of several years of experience managing projects and teams effectively.
  • The salary for this role is competitive, reflecting the seniority and expertise required.
  • Key responsibilities include managing project dependencies, stakeholder relationships, and ensuring projects meet defined objectives within budget and timelines.

Looking for a Senior Project Manager for our huge client, who is versed in Waterfall and Agile methods and also want someone that has a lot of experience with managing people.

Duration - 6 months initiallyContract - inside IR35 (via umbrella)Location - Perth/Glasgow (hybrid)As a pivotal player in our forward-thinking team, you'll harness cutting-edge technology to drive change and propel the UK towards its ambitious net-zero targets. Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish and maintain highly effective relationships within projects and other project and business teams to ensure that interfaces work correctly.
  • Deliver the projects to the required quality and success criteria as defined in the project definition or Project Initiation Document (PID).
  • Management of 3rd parties, acting as a routine contact point between organisation and supplier.
  • Manage cross project and programme dependencies, ensuring activities are joined up from an operational and delivery point of view.
  • Proactively manage, through appropriate project management frameworks key customer and stakeholder relationships relevant to the projects
  • Manage projects to ensure that resultant systems/services deliver the specified objectives, within budget and timescale.
  • Maintain and manage internal and external project dependencies.
  • Monitor contract performance, manage under performance and escalate where necessary.
  • Ensure that IT/business strategy, policy and standards are adhered to, thus achieving commonality and ease of maintenance.
  • Define and agree the scope and business priorities of the project or programme.

What do you need?

  • Ability to provide leadership and focus for the project teams.
  • Experience of having shaped business cases and delivering real benefits to an organisation.
  • Demonstrable experience of having managed and delivered projects successfully from end to end.
  • Experience and ability to prioritise.
  • Ability to manage complex projects in a complex environment, potentially including applying remedial measures to project delivery.
  • Demonstrable experience of applying and advising project governance frameworks.
  • Ability to adapt project processes to optimise project delivery.
  • Ability to demonstrate a track record of delivery from a goal orientated perspective.
  • Experience of Agile would be an advantage.
  • Ability to work in a technically or organisationally complex environment.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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