Principal Project Manager

PRINCIPAL PROJECT MANAGER

EAST/WEST

This role can be located anywhere in the UK and is a home based contract.

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We are leaders in the HR and Payroll software sector, creating and developing our solutions to keep ahead of an ever-evolving world of work. With over 650 people working with us across three continents, we're a fast-growing, family-owned company on a journey to completely transform the
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Role responsibilities

As the Principal Project Manager, you will report directly into our Regional Portfolio Lead and Regional Delivery Manager, covering the East/West region.

As this is a senior project management opportunity, this role will require someone with extensive project management experience, as well as leading other project managers across the project implementation.

In detail you will

• Provide high quality, professional project management services to customers and prospects.
• Manage all aspects of assigned projects including planning, monitoring, control, reporting and communication to achieve succesful implementations, delivered to the required quality, time and budget, in particular:
• Assist with ITT responses, estimates, project plans and other pre-sales activities.
• Assist service delivery management in the identification and implementation of new processes and methodologies
• Assume responsibilities on customer site of project team management
• Customer stakeholder management
• Provide guidance to customer project team members on site and act as project lead on behalf of the customer
• Provide weekly highlight reporting and financial reports to customer Chief Finance Officer
• Collate and distribute consultancy agendas to all members of the customer project team
• Ensure all customer assigned work packages are completed on time; ready for MHR consultancy to attend site
• Manage RAID log on behalf of the customer; highlighting Risks and Issues to the Project Sponsor
• Manage and direct internal customer project team meetings; providing honest and candid feedback to all team members
• Provide Project Board with relevant sign off documentation for each phase/stage of the project
• Ensure consultancy Activity Reports are distributed to relevant members of the customer internal project team
• Assume responsibility of the customer project team on site Continually liaise with customers to actively manage project risks and issues and extend consultancy involvement.
• Maintain ownership of risks and issues in conjunction with customers, escalating only when necessary.
• Manage all projects in line with MAPI governance
• Hold regular, at least monthly, project review meetings with each customer.
• Provide support to customer project team at monthly project board meetings
• Continually identify and drive additional commercial opportunities.
• Provide financial budgetary control reports for all project costs against the terms and conditions of the services agreement.
• Produce accurate weekly revenue forecasts.
• Support Service Delivery management team to ensure revenue targets are met as per the business plan.

Skills

• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to influence and gain buy in to complex and challenging change initiatives
• Well organised and have a methodical approach
• High attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and provlem-solving skills
• Strong commercial awarenessOur Rewards

Our Rewards

• Competitive salaries.
• We contribute to a full company pension scheme.
• We offer life assurance (x4 salary, with option to increase up to x8 salary).
• An employee assistance programme is included.
• Our sites all come with a subsidised restaurant and cafe on-site, with delicious new meals on offer from our chefs each day.
• We offer Vodafone discounts, making it cheaper and easier to catch up with your favourite people.
• Personal development plays a big part in helping our people to reach their potential, this is why we offer over 60 internal training courses and support our people with external qualifications.

Why us?

What makes MHR a great place to work, isn't novelties or gimmicky job titles, it's our down to earth approach working with other people who want to do a job they're proud of.

We give you time to develop in your role and as a person, so you start to do creative work that only you can do, rather than trying to work through other people's methods, that don't suit your working style.

We're flexible, we embrace change and as we're still owned by the original founders, so we're incredibly proud of what we we've built from a small business into one of the biggest and best in the industry.

Be part of something better, become part of the MHR family.

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