6th November 2024
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
Project Management
London
£600 per day (inside IR35)
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
City of London (Hybrid)
£600 per day (inside IR35)
On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Project Manager, this role will be responsible for delivery of primarily IT infrastructure projects in support of a broader portfolio spanning obsolescence, off the shelf application upgrades, Security enhancements, end user computing and network/communications solutions.
The organisation operates a hybrid working policy; therefore, you must be committed to being office based 2 days per week and within commutable distance of their City of London offices.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Project Sponsor, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
- Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilising resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
- Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects which report into a wider Portfolio of change.
- Responsible for detailed project reporting and governance adherence
- Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments.
- Agrees and formalizes plans, conducts or co-ordinates required business analysis where necessary. Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders.
- Relationship management; develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Create project business case for all projects and ensure the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders. Responsible for demonstrating that stated benefits have been realised once the project has been delivered.
- Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope and budget
- Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers
- Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
Skills/Experience required:
- Significant practical experience of leading and managing Corporate/Infrastructure change programmes across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation
- Extensive hands-on experience of delivering complex IT change projects in a fast-moving organisation ideally a financial services envrionment.
- Have responsibility of delivering change programmes with budgets in excess of £1m
- Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases
- Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems
- Experience delivering large Microsoft based Infrastructure/Desktop, Linux/Unix, cloud services and security focused projects – good all round knowledge of most things in the infrastructure/application delivery space
- Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project
- Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans
- Strong personal work ethic
- Motivated delivery focused individual
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Proven ability managing projects in a fast paced, complex, demanding environment.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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