23rd October 2023
Senior Project Manager – 3rd party procurement management products (SaaS)
Project Management
London
Up to £775pd (inside IR35)
Senior Project Manager – 3rd party procurement management products (SaaS)
Docklands, London (Hybrid)
6-month contract
Up to £775pd (inside IR35)
On behalf of a leading financial services client, I am seeking a Senior Project Manager with a proven track record in the delivery of 3rd party procurement management products (SaaS related), with experience of finance technology transformation.
Due to the organisation operating a hybrid work model, you must be within commutable distance of their Docklands offices and willing to be office based at least 2 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Scope: Lead cross-divisional workshops and with support of business analysts, ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are gathered and maintained throughout the life of the project.
- Time: Liaise with 3rd party suppliers and internal divisions to develop and maintain a consolidated project plan for all stages of the project’s lifecycle.
- Cost: Manage budgets for projects including creating and maintaining finance tracking spreadsheets, and managing the associated purchase order & invoicing processes.
- Project Governance: Work with Project Management Office to ensure that the project adheres to the organisation’s delivery framework. Ensuring all documents on the project are kept up to date and to the expected quality (for example: business requirement documents, high level designs, test strategies, business cases, etc.). Additionally, provide progress updates within the relevant PMO tooling (eg SharePoint).
- Test Coordination: Liaise with test teams to coordinate all stages of testing on the project (including ST, SIT, UAT, NFT, and Penetration Testing).
- Communications: Run periodic project meetings (eg project boards, team meeting, etc.), communicating withteams and stakeholders both in the UK and offshore.
- Stakeholder Management: Work with the project’s sponsor and other senior stakeholders to keep them effectively informed and communicate any messages they have to the project team. Managing day to day decisions on the sponsor’s behalf, and knowing when to escalate
- Vendor Management: Manage vendor teams on a day to day basis (onshore and offshore) to enable them to complete their relevant elements of the project. Monitoring and controlling vendor performance and commercials as required.
- Risk and Issue Management: Monitor, record (via RAID logs), and appropriately escalate any risks, issues, and assumptions on the project.
- Technical Coordination: Liaise day to day with the relevant technical teams, to ensure the systems development is completed from all areas (eg Architecture, IT Engineering, InfoSec, compliance, etc.)
Experience/Skills required:
- 7 years+ experience of leading projects from end-to-end, particularly implementation of SaaS products
- In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (including associated artefacts)
- Finance change and procurement system implementation
- Offshore third-party management
- Strong understanding of IT Security control requirements for SaaS product implementations
- Experience working within financial services
- Experience of working in a highly procedural project environment
- Experience working directly with senior stakeholders at a C Suite level
- Proficient in Microsoft: Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Experience of working on a project with data migration elements
- Experience of working on a project with integration elements
- Experience in working with offshore teams or stakeholders
- Experience of working on multiple projects concurrently.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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