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SalarySupporting the business and our divisional offices, our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function – Barratt Partnerships.
While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.
Reporting to the IT Portfolio Delivery Manager, the IT Project Manager is responsible for managing the delivery of IT infrastructure projects and/ or the IT workstreams of Business Change projects and programmes.
You will be expected to:
- Agree scope, produce delivery plans and track status of allocated projects/ workstreams.
- Produce weekly status updates from the PMO toolset and distribute to all relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitate project/ workstream stakeholder update meetings and SteerCo meetings where required.
- Ensure all projects/ workstreams follow the Barratt Change Delivery Framework to effectively deliver utilising a best practice approach to project management, ensuring we have the appropriate level of governance in place for the level change being managed.
- Ensure that all projects/ workstreams are completed to the quality and standards implemented by the IT Solution Delivery Team.
- Manage project/ workstream budgets and report on variances where required.
- Maintain project/ workstream RAID Registers and manage all risks, issues actions and decisions.
- Manage the end-to-end project delivery lifecycle, including any escalations due to deviation from scope, quality, costs or benefits.
- Prepare and maintain project/ workstream plans and publish to the relevant stakeholders as required.
- Co-ordinate project/ workstream resources, both internal and external to Barratt, in-line with the wider Group IT and Business Change teams.
- Assist with scoping for new projects, including production of detailed plans for the Discovery and Initiate phases, scope options, likely costs and delivery timescales.
- Escalate project/ workstream related issues in a timely manner to the IT Portfolio Delivery Manager, where required.
