Senior Project Manager

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.<br/> <br/> We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies.<br/> <br/> Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Due to our expansion plans, Version 1 requires an experienced IT Software Project Manager to join our expanding Public Sector team. </p><p>You will need at least 5 years’ project management experience in large scale systems development and deployment projects. You should be experienced in full development project life cycle implementations and have experience working with a relevant methodology like PRINCE2 or Agile frameworks.<br/> <br/> Possessing excellent facilitation, communication and presentation skills, you will have the ability to deal with all levels of a client organisation and an ability to manage scope, RAID, resources and budget delivering projects to achieve their intended business outcomes. You should be a team player and self-motivated and will demonstrate a strong customer-centric ethos and an ability to develop strong relationships with relevant stakeholders and ensure their needs are met.</p><ul><li>Working with the Project Owner/Sponsor to confirm the project scope and goals, objectives and business justification, secure project resources (people and budget) and re-iterate the mandate for the project.  (we use a gross profit model for financial control of projects)</li><li>Preparing a detailed project work-plan with associated resource requirement profile identification.</li><li>Undertaking standard RAID analysis and establishing the project governance structure and processes.</li><li>Creating, maintaining and updating a Project Initiation Document.</li><li>Leading, monitoring and maintaining progress of the project plan to ensure delivery of the key stages and goals within the agreed constraints of time, cost and quality.</li><li>Controlling and reporting progress to the Project Steering Group/Project Sponsor and escalating any issues, as appropriate, in a timely manner. Initiating corrective action where necessary in order to keep the project on track.</li><li>Playing a lead role in defining an effective communication strategy for the project, including communicating and consulting with key stakeholders.</li><li>Identify inter-dependencies between the various stakeholder groups to ensure all are aligned and risks are identified, mitigated and communicated.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Overall strong Project Management capabilities, 5+ years of PM experience.</li><li>Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.</li><li>Strong working knowledge of PRINCE 2 or PMP with practical experience.</li><li>Budget management, commercial and Customer experience..</li><li>Familiarity with Agile methodology, an advantage.</li><li>Experience in using standard Project Management and MS Office tools inc. MS Project, Excel, Word and Visio.</li><li>Excellent organization and communication skills.</li><li>Strong interest in developing PM Capability solutions and methodologies.</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p>Before you apply, here are some of our benefits. We offer <strong>profit share, pension, private medical, flexible working policy and more</strong>. We offer incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.</p><p>We offer employee recognition in the form of <strong>Excellence Awards</strong> and V1Ps which is awarded by your peers. Engagement is incredibly important with local engagement teams driving our engagement events!</p>