Project Manager (IT)

Role: Project Manager

Type: Permanent

Location: Milton Keynes (our headquarters)

Remuneration: GBP32,256 - GBP36,288 + bonus + pension + healthcare + annual leave allowance

About us

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain's railway. From Crossrail - Europe's largest civil engineering project - to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen.

Britain's railway has been growing for 150 years, without significant renewal. And yet it's required to carry more freight and passengers than ever before. We anticipate up to 400 million more passenger journeys by as soon as 2020. Investment and modernisation are absolutely essential.

So we're building the railway of the future. It's a colossal challenge. And we're relishing every moment. We're driven to delight our customers and help the economy thrive. We've already developed a world class reputation for taking care of our track - ours is one of the safest railways in Europe.

Naturally, we're constantly seeking new talent to help us achieve our ambitious goals.

About the role

This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to the routes in the safest, most cost-efficient and effective way, and enables them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.

Working in the Route Services IT (RSIT) Team, you will provide our customers with smart technology for the railway of today, designing fit-for-purpose and innovative solutions. Your vital work will help to manage the day-to-day running of our vast IT estate, from safety critical systems maintenance to hardware provision, supporting thousands of employees every day.

As a Project Manager, you will lead in the end to end delivery of specific projects with the view to save costs, time and achieve maximum quality where possible. You will play a key role in leading teams and suppliers as well as working closely with your peers in a collaborative work environment.

Key Accountabilities

What will you be doing?

• Driving projects forward to achieve optimum delivery of outputs including appropriate planning, structuring and sequencing tasks and activities.
• Leading the project delivery team and oversees suppliers, dependencies, achievements, and risks and issues in accordance with our standards and guidelines.
• Reviewing project delivery budget and resourcing, driving governance arrangements to support appropriate reporting.
• Mitigating risk by working with the business, engaging with stakeholders to agree common understanding to reduce risk.
• Maintaining relationships with key customers, making sure effective and robust communication plans are agreed and in place.
• Implementing quality and efficiency improvement initiatives for the project supporting lean delivery.
• Supporting business transformation programmes and helps drive delivery performance improvements across the project.
• Leading stakeholders within the project team to successfully meet the project deliverables.

Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Do you meet the following criteria?

Essential

You will need to have the following skills, experience and qualifications:

• Experience in leading project management and delivery
• Proven track record in delivering successful, complex IT projects with an element of business change
• Significant knowledge of project management principles, methods, techniques, tools and emerging trends
• Proven experience in management of customer expectations, senior stakeholders and developing strong relationships across the business
• Strong leadership skills, motivating and inspiring confidence in others
• High levels of flexibility, adaptability and broad thinking
• Proven track record within supplier management and commercial acumen
• Knowledge and experience of applying a range of delivery/ development life cycles, e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Iterative
• Strong financial management skills including quality forecasting

Desirable

Ideally you will have some of these, but they are not essential:

• Knowledge of/experience in the UK rail industry or equivalent
• Formal Programme/Project Management qualifications (e.g. APM/P - Certified Project Manager, Prince 2)

How to apply

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This role closes on 13th February 2019

At Network Rail, we welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or other irrelevant factor. We are committed to interviewing all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this job.