Senior Projecct Manager - IT
Position : Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Project Delivery Manager (Senior Project Manager) - Infrastructure Network Services
Location : Midlands, M42, Coventry
Sector : IT
Duration : 8 months initially (very high likelihood of extension)
Rates : GBP350-GBP400 day limited company
Status : Outside IR 35 (tbc)
The role :
Senior Project Manager with significant Network, Telecommunications, EUC with strong project management experience managing complex infrastructure projects in public sector organizations involving Greenfield infrastructure migrations across multiple commercial partners and suppliers.
The project is part of a complex implementation programme, with a number of parties including vendors, system integrators and user groups, broken down into a number of projects that are focused on a particular aspect of the overall outcome requirements and must achieve the delivery date of August 31st 2021.
Skills & Experience
•Infrastructure, network and telecommunication migration project experience
•Large scale infrastructure migration projects, including EUC rollout effective
•Excellent knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects.
•Sound business case development and approvals skills, in a complex environment.
•Expert range of structured project management methodologies
Responsibilities
In general, overall delivery of the Infrastructure Network Services project, ensuring the project is delivered on time, with acceptable quality and within budget and more specifically
Engagement, Planning & Control
• Foster the conditions for the project teams to perform and lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure clarity of scope, good estimating, and solution development and to manage the risks.
• Contribute to the development of the business case or financial investment case.
• Develop a well formed project and get agreement with stakeholders for the purpose, nature and scope of the projects to secure buy-in and commitment
• Draw on own experience and actively seek out and apply relevant lessons learnt from other projects to enable the project teams to avoid repeating mistakes of the past.
Delivery
• Manage and deliver the project within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints to enable delivery of the agreed outcomes and benefits.
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, address issues, and deliver effective communication strategies.
• Put in place transition plans and ensure business ownership is established for the ongoing ownership of outcomes and benefits.
• Apply oversight and evaluate, monitor and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies and changes, escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
• Maintain suitable plans, manage the delivery of minimum requirements and critical success factors and effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
• Monitor progress, regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions. Ensure all expenditure or activity is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or value generated central to decision making
• Ensure adherence to Warwickshire Police policies and standards for project management, health and safety, financial, legal and technology and any other compliance requirements.
• Support the business, projects and ICT deliver key documentation and ensure change management activities are executed (e.g. relevant training) to enable business adoption of changes.
• Ensure controlled phase/project closure with appropriate review of performance, sharing of lessons, handover specifics, ongoing ownership and a planned post implementation review and sharing of lessons in place.
Stakeholders and Communication
• Create, update and manage plans to address stakeholder expectations and secure buy-in.
• Work with stakeholders on defining scope, agreeing critical success factors, identifying deliverables and benefits, and understanding trade-offs.
• Identify and address dependencies and interdependencies with other projects.
• Form the project team with appropriate specialist skills (e.g. procurement, HR, change, legal, business continuity etc.) and advise the sponsor on governance issues.
• Develop options and gain approval for plans, and business case/ financial investment case.
• Create, update and manage a detailed project plan, along with a high-level project plan to support stakeholder engagement, reporting and communication
Location : Midlands, M42, Coventry
Sector : IT
Duration : 8 months initially (very high likelihood of extension)
Rates : GBP350-GBP400 day limited company
Status : Outside IR 35 (tbc)
The role :
Senior Project Manager with significant Network, Telecommunications, EUC with strong project management experience managing complex infrastructure projects in public sector organizations involving Greenfield infrastructure migrations across multiple commercial partners and suppliers.
The project is part of a complex implementation programme, with a number of parties including vendors, system integrators and user groups, broken down into a number of projects that are focused on a particular aspect of the overall outcome requirements and must achieve the delivery date of August 31st 2021.
Skills & Experience
•Infrastructure, network and telecommunication migration project experience
•Large scale infrastructure migration projects, including EUC rollout effective
•Excellent knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects.
•Sound business case development and approvals skills, in a complex environment.
•Expert range of structured project management methodologies
Responsibilities
In general, overall delivery of the Infrastructure Network Services project, ensuring the project is delivered on time, with acceptable quality and within budget and more specifically
Engagement, Planning & Control
• Foster the conditions for the project teams to perform and lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure clarity of scope, good estimating, and solution development and to manage the risks.
• Contribute to the development of the business case or financial investment case.
• Develop a well formed project and get agreement with stakeholders for the purpose, nature and scope of the projects to secure buy-in and commitment
• Draw on own experience and actively seek out and apply relevant lessons learnt from other projects to enable the project teams to avoid repeating mistakes of the past.
Delivery
• Manage and deliver the project within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints to enable delivery of the agreed outcomes and benefits.
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, address issues, and deliver effective communication strategies.
• Put in place transition plans and ensure business ownership is established for the ongoing ownership of outcomes and benefits.
• Apply oversight and evaluate, monitor and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies and changes, escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
• Maintain suitable plans, manage the delivery of minimum requirements and critical success factors and effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
• Monitor progress, regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions. Ensure all expenditure or activity is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or value generated central to decision making
• Ensure adherence to Warwickshire Police policies and standards for project management, health and safety, financial, legal and technology and any other compliance requirements.
• Support the business, projects and ICT deliver key documentation and ensure change management activities are executed (e.g. relevant training) to enable business adoption of changes.
• Ensure controlled phase/project closure with appropriate review of performance, sharing of lessons, handover specifics, ongoing ownership and a planned post implementation review and sharing of lessons in place.
Stakeholders and Communication
• Create, update and manage plans to address stakeholder expectations and secure buy-in.
• Work with stakeholders on defining scope, agreeing critical success factors, identifying deliverables and benefits, and understanding trade-offs.
• Identify and address dependencies and interdependencies with other projects.
• Form the project team with appropriate specialist skills (e.g. procurement, HR, change, legal, business continuity etc.) and advise the sponsor on governance issues.
• Develop options and gain approval for plans, and business case/ financial investment case.
• Create, update and manage a detailed project plan, along with a high-level project plan to support stakeholder engagement, reporting and communication