Senior It Project Manager

As the Senior IT Project Manager at Lumanity you will lead the successful delivery of IT initiatives within a mid-sized professional services enterprise. You will manage other IT Project Managers, maintain project roadmaps, assist with governance processes, and collaborate across various domains including infrastructure, operations, enterprise applications, software development, and cybersecurity to ensure the successful delivery of projects that support our business objectives and meet client needs. This is an opportunity to help determine and implement the project management approach and methodologies for Lumanity.

Key Responsibilities:

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  Lead IT Project Management:
  • Identify and monitor adherence to the chosen project management methodologies.
  • Oversee and manage project lifecycles, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Ensure appropriate, quality project deliverables are created for all projects and provided to the satisfaction of project sponsors and senior stakeholders, including project plans, schedules, allocation plans, stakeholder analysis, communications plans and RAID logs.
  • Identify and mitigate project risks and issues, implementing proactive strategies to address challenges and minimize disruptions to project timelines.
  • Manage vendor relationships and third-party contracts, ensuring compliance with service level agreements and quality standards.
  • Analyze project proposals to determine resource requirements and report on impact to current project workload.
  • Manage project resources effectively, including budget allocation, tracking expenditures, and ensuring optimal resource utilization.
  • Identify and maintain suitable project management tools.
• Maintain Governance Processes:
  • Continually improve project governance processes, standards, and methodologies for project prioritization and execution, ensuring compliance and adherence to best practices.
  • Prepare reports for governance groups, project stakeholders, and senior leadership to ensure appropriate oversight for project activities.
  • Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans across multiple projects.
• Manage IT Project Managers:
  • Lead permanent and temporary Project Managers, providing guidance, coaching, and support, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability, and facilitating their professional growth and development.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Work with infrastructure, operations, enterprise applications, application development, and cyber resilience teams to define project requirements, ensure resource availability, and manage dependencies.
  • Maintain project roadmaps for Operations, Infrastructure, Cyber Resilience, and Enterprise Applications teams, outlining project timelines, milestones, and key deliverables, while aligning them with business priorities and strategies.

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time.

Competency Guidelines

• Collaboration, Communication & Influencing

• Fosters an environment of collaboration, commitment, team spirit, pride, and trust within the project management team.
• Swiftly resolves conflict to minimize friction and maximize diversity of thought.
• Builds networks within, across and external to organizational boundaries.
• Communicates ideas or positions in a manner that builds support, agreement, or commitment.
• Creates buy-in, gains trust and motivates action.

• Develops scenarios and tradeoffs when multiple program/projects are at risk.
• Commercial Acumen
  • Understands and communicates to the PM team, enterprise direction, goals and strategy to determine how projects can add value to the organization and to customer satisfaction.
  • Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to the organization’s strategy and financial goals, reflecting an awareness of external dynamics.
• Change Leadership
  • Demonstrates a high level of personal commitment to change through actions and words.
  • Acts as the organizational change agent for developing, implementing and improving project management maturity and practices, in support of business goals and strategy.
  • Encourages others to support and enable change efforts within individual initiatives and inside business/operations units.
• Results orientated
  • Sets and accomplishes challenging goals.
  • Defines standards in terms of doing what is appropriate and doing it well.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work under challenging timelines.
• Visibility
  • This is a global role which may require some international travel with occasional meetings in key EU, US and UK offices. In addition, the Senior Project Manager needs to be aware of time zones and recognize that certain situations will require some flexibility in working hours in order to ensure adequate coverage on critical issues as they arise.
• Global & Cultural Awareness
  • Expertise in and awareness of the cultural differences that come with a diverse geographic and cultural organization.

Minimum Recruitment Criteria

• Qualifications
  • Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent related experience.
  • Project management training and certification required (PMP, Prince2, etc.).
• In role experience
  • Eight or more years of IT project management experience with a track record of successfully leading projects in a professional services environment.
  • Demonstrated experience of managing IT Project Managers.
  • Evidence of using “soft skills” or “people skills” to achieve success.
  • Proven leadership skills, including experience managing and mentoring project teams.
• Professional expertise
  • Highly familiar with project management methodologies (for example, PMI, PRINCE2, PMVOK and Agile).
  • Demonstrated experience interacting with senior leadership to C-Suite level with appropriate verbal and written communication skills for such audiences.
  • Expert knowledge of project planning, estimating, and monitoring tools.
  • Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, operations, business applications, and cyber security concepts and their impact on project delivery.

• Location – This role can be based either in the US or the UK, depending on the location of the best candidate for the role, although international travel may be required to other regions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – Ability to explain digital concepts and technologies clearly and concisely to business leaders, and business concepts to project teams.

• Physical Demands - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
  • This position at times will require evening and weekend work.
  • Travel as appropriate approximately 10-15% of time. Travel will be both national and international.