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SalaryEstablished in 1896, Knight Frank is the leading independent property consultancy in the UK offering agency and professional advice across Commercial, Residential and Rural sectors. Headquartered in London, Knight Frank now comprises a global network of over 523 offices in 60 territories.
We are a firm of exceptional advisors, working across the globe, in partnership with our customers and clients to deliver them a lifetime of value. Our customers, clients and advisors need to be supported by the very best in customer and client facing digital products.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Data & Digital team based in our London Head office, supporting our web transformation programme. This is a strategic project to strengthen our Partners in Property vision by delivering an improved digital experience and engaging our clients and customers throughout their property journey with Knight Frank.
As an Agile Project Manager, working within the Knight Frank digital team, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the web transformation project and tracking costs. You will be liaising with our preferred tech partner as well as internal teams to ensure tasks are identified and prioritised. You will also be responsible for keeping stakeholders updated with progress through updated Project reporting.
Responsibilities:
- The person who fills this position will have responsibility for managing the delivery of some of the team’s technical resources, including Knight Frank staff and third-party resources, who form part of our Scrum teams.
- Handle various Agile Project responsibilities such as planning, scheduling, coordinating, and managing for several projects.
- Prepare, manage and distribute the governance needed to meet KF standards including status reports of the project, RAIDS, burn downs and financial forecasts.
- Identify and support correction of deviations from plans and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
- Track, escalate and facilitate resolution of Scrum impediments.
- Support the Product Owner in managing business Service Line expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications about delivery, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance.
- Encourage collaboration between teams.
- Work with Product Owners and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.
- Drive relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops/retrospectives.
Experience required
The ideal candidate will have experience of:
- Strong team leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent knowledge of Agile and Scrum, in a multi-team environment.
- Experience of working with in-house and outsource providers, as part of Scrum teams.
- 7 years plus project delivery experience, including bespoke software delivery experience.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Preferably hold a Project Manager qualification, such as: APM Agile PM.
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the capability to:
- Listen and support teams in problem identification and decision-making.
- Understand and empathise with others.
- Support the teams’ commitments.
- Be open and appreciate openness in others.
- Polished and professional with the ability to adapt written and verbal communication styles to work for people at all levels.
