Project Manager

Our financial services client is looking on board an experienced Project Manager with knowledge of Business analysis/process design on a large transformation program.

This is a hybrid role - Tuesday - Thursday in Leeds.

Interviews to take place in January with a February start.

Description:

Main Responsibilities

• Project Manager for multiple domestic and offshore cross-functional agile product development teams, to efficiently build tooling and automation to convert

• Promote strong collaboration between teams, manage dependencies, sharing best practice and helping clear potential blockers

• Capacity planning – harness Project toolset to determine the viability of a desired date
• Implement and embed business process in a technical environment

• Manage release delivery, coordinating dependencies across multiple teams

• Clear communication of business objectives across the development teams so they can contribute to planned deadlines and align on decisions

• Coordinate and partner with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups including securing early engagement to achieve effective support

• Identify project risks & issues escalating where appropriate in a timely manner; ensure impacts are communicated so all parties are aligned; partner with project stakeholders to resolve issues and mitigate project impacts

• Make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and procedures

• Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability. Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date. Develop and distribute timely status reporting with key metrics to appropriate stakeholders.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Previous proven project leadership experience (5+ years)

• Previous proven project leadership with managing third-party development contractors working with teams in different time zones

• Previous experience in business transformation and/or business improvement programmes

• Business Analysis background and/or hybrid project/analysis experience

• Business process design experience

• Organisation design experience

• Challenge the way teams operate to help improve team practices and team growth

• Present information in a concise and effective manner, ensuring messages are received, understood and all parties are aligned

• Adopt new ways of doing things to add value to our customers and the team

• Motivate or inspire others to aim for higher levels of achievement

• Actively foster diversity and inclusion, valuing and respecting differences to achieve team harmony and enable higher team performance

Job Title:Project Manager

Location: Leeds, UK

Rate/Salary: 400.00 - 450.00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract

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