AddressWe're on the lookout for a Project Manager to join our dynamic Project Delivery team within NHS SBS. As part of our team, you'll play a pivotal part in driving forward our transformation programme and making a tangible impact on NHS SBS.
You'll collaborate closely with our partners, keeping them fully engaged and be the driving force behind ensuring everyone stays on track. You will have complete and continuing awareness of the project plan, key milestones, progress to date and plans to completion.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.
There will be occasional travel to Leeds for team meetings (around 5-6 times a year)
What you'll be doing:
- Own and deliver the projects, programmes, work-packages, ensuring that it conforms to project/programme management governance standards, and time, cost, and quality specifications.
- Provide effective client engagement and partner management by actively representing the project team to the client an /or suppliers, ensuring that relationships are built and maintained inside the client organisation and by ensuring that effective and agreed project governance processes are implemented.
- Establishing and maintaining effective project controls, including the management of risks, issues and change, raising awareness of risks ensuring cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues.
- Maintaining a clear understanding of, and regularly reporting, project progress, plans, dependencies, risk and status clearly and accurately.
- Support the formal closure of projects and the completion of project, early life support and lessons learned reviews.
What you’ll bring:
- Recent and proven experience of project management with a track record of delivering to required standards.
- Experience of handling hybrid development teams, including offshore, dedicated staff, seconded staff, client staff and contractors. Experience of a full project lifecycle, including transition to live service.
- Current Project Management Certification (APM, PRINCE 2 Practitioner or equivalent)
- Public Sector experience
It would be great if you had:
- Solid understanding of processes within NHS organisations
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time Permanent
Location: UK wide (with travel to Leeds)
Security Clearance Level: DBS
Internal Recruiter: Annecia
Salary: up to £60,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
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