Junior It Project Manager

As a Junior IT Project Manager you'll deliver smaller projects within budget, and to required quality and time-scales, and facilitate full realisation of benefits defined in the business case.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for projects with varying budgets, or work streams within a programme.

Understand commercial drivers and business strategy to ensure appropriate project prioritisation

Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, provide communication strategies, ensure business ownership

Work closely with non-IT project & programme managers to ensure the successful delivery of change.

Manage risks, issues and changes, including changes to budgets, escalating as appropriate

Produce and maintain project plans and critical paths, providing required reporting, including RAG project status reports

Identify resource requirements and assign individual responsibilities, including third parties

Manage day to day delivery of the project scope

Provide guidance to project teams and communicate with Stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, and clearly and concisely communicate project progress and status to stakeholders.

Ensure organisational procedures, project methodologies/standards and best practice are adhered to

Ensure that Security, Data and Architectural principles are adhered to as part of project delivery

Control and report on all expenditure in accordance with corporate governance processes

Ensure business objectives are met, the business change is managed, and the benefits are realised

Ensure delivery of documentation and training to enable adoption of delivered changes

Facilitate formal handover to the business sponsor and support teams

Ensure effective project closure (including capturing lessons learned)

Key Skills/Experience

Good level of communication and influencing skills and good listener

Builds and maintains effective working relationships with peers and senior colleagues

Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Has a hands-on approach, is delivery focused with an emphasis on practical results

Is collaborative and works in a co-operative way

Able to rationalise potential issues and provide solutions

Can prioritise and plan effectively

Dynamic and fast paced attitude

Can multi-task and is highly organised

Ability and willingness to learn Waterfall and Agile methodologies

Working knowledge of benefits management and business changes

Core Behaviours

Customer obsessed - internal and end external customer

Commercially focused on benefits and costs

Collaborative and team working

Proactive and can-do attitude

Ability to work at pace and in a high-pressure environment

Embracing change – flexible in approach to ways of working, ability to adapt to change and being open to new ideas

Communication with multiple levels of stakeholders and external partners

Innovative and ability to think laterally, foresee risks or obstacles and think creatively to overcome challenges

Leading by example and living the Halfords values

This role will require the post holder to work onsite at our Redditch Support Centre for a minimum of 2 days per week