Digital Project Manager

Job title: Digital Project Manager

Location: Slough SL1 - Hybrid 2 days per week in the office

Contract length: Contract until the end of 2024 (maybe extended)

Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday 09.00am - 17.00pm

Rate: £450 - £500 Day Rate

Randstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services are currently recruiting for a Digital Project Manager on behalf of a global company in the Manufacturing industry. This role is a Hybrid working position with 2 days per week in the office.

The successful Digital Project Manager will join the Digital Team based at the Slough office. The Digital Project Manager will be a Digital Enthusiast, working with multiple stakeholders across functions to get buy-in. You will have previously worked for a Corporate brand, handling multiple projects at a time. It will be your responsibility to see the projects are completed within time scope and best practice is adhered to at all times. This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a well known brand who dominates the market within their field.

Responsibilities of The Digital Project Manager:

• Responsible for assisting in creation and deployment of UK Digital Business Continuity strategy and functional roadmap - including the creation of new processes and Digital capabilities aligned with internal and external best practices and emerging trends.

• Exhibit resourcefulness in confirming Digital solution architecture by leveraging external partnerships to confirm best in class emerging technologies as well as internal Company Enterprise Architecture expertise.

• Manage internal and external third parties with the intent of developing sustainable relationships/partnerships to capitalise on ideas, innovations, delivery, best practices and cost efficiencies. Develop governance structure and metrics to ensure that mutual value is being derived through the services provided.

• No direct line management, Directing of Digital Technologies and Business Segment associates/contractors required to achieve desired outcomes Digital Change Management Excellence

• Analyse/identify opportunities to establish projects that develop and/or deploy new global capabilities.

• Implement Design Thinking approaches to iterative problem solving - Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test

• Managing critical path and high-risk activities, identifying potential threats and conflicts, and implementing mitigating actions.

• Approve, prepare, monitor, and adjust variable development budgets. Digital Capability Development & Deployment

• Execute the delivery of enhanced application capabilities through strategic partners.

• Partner with functional experts to analyse and develop process & Digital capabilities which are aligned with functional & segment strategies, engaging functional Business Partnership and utilising development, deployment and core services resources as appropriate.

• Execute experimentation and highly iterative approaches (e.g. Agile scrum) that leads to early learning, quicker value realization, and innovation breakthrough.

• Deliver predictable and repeatable solution design artifacts that enable continuous solution delivery.

• Execute/facilitate the build and delivery of business applications and successful support handover to Core Services (Service Introduction).

• Development - drive forward system design, configuration, development, integration, and unit testing.

• UX/UI - execute process for a user-centered design approach by advocating for simple, modern, flexible design conventions. Responsible for development and optimisation of UI and UX.

• Testing - Partner with Business resource to write and automate test scripts and aids in execution of system and integration testing. Plans the detailed tasks required to achieve delivery of a fully tested and supported solution.

• Anticipate, analyse, and translate business needs (Customer Journey's, EPIC's, or Business User Stories) into technical user stories, system diagrams, and functional/tech specifications.

Skills/ Experience required for the Digital Project Manager:

• Experience of 5 Years plus in a Digital Project Manager role

• Digital Excellence

• Process driven

• Agile

• Prince2

• PMP

• An advocate for stakeholder buy-in

• Change management

• PMO experience is essential

• Business Analyst - really have a clear understanding of Business needs and what the required outcome is and then setting up the project from start to completion

• Forward thinking

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. While the hiring process may not be expedited, we urge all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly to ensure their consideration.

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