Technology Programme Manager

Job Summary

• England
• Permanent
• JN -052023-1932106
• May 09, 2023
• £85k - £90k

Job Description
An exciting exclusive senior permanent opportunity sitting with a leader in the energy sector. Looking for a senior technology Programme Manager.

Role Overview

As part of the ICT Project Management team the Senior Programme / Project Manager will manage, coordinate, and successfully deliver complex, multifaceted, large-scale, or high-risk projects / programmes, utilising agile/waterfall/hybrid methodologies, which all contribute to a single, interrelated set of outcomes and benefits for the business.

Accountabilities

• Assume overall ownership of the project/programme plan, budget and scope, taking accountability for delivery of the required business outcomes and benefits to time, cost, and quality requirements.

• Work with all areas of the business, including supporting functions, to develop a project vision, business case, scope, impact, budget, plan, and organisation to achieve the project vision and business outcomes and benefits.

• Establish and run effective project governance to drive decision making, identifying, and removing obstacles to progress, resolving any conflicting stakeholder issues, supported by comprehensive reporting.

• Manage the project risks, issues, and dependencies across the workstreams within the project and or programme and the wider portfolio, devising mitigating actions where required.

• Ensure optimisation of the return on investment and consideration of all options and alternatives throughout the project lifecycle.

• Direct senior stakeholder communications, and change management activities, to ensure changes embed within the business organisation to drive benefit realisation in line with the business case.

Skills and experience we need from you

• Extensive and proven experience delivering IT projects, preferably in an environment where both waterfall and agile methodologies co-exist.

• Proven experience in programme, project management, governance, prioritisation, and assurance.

• Experience in managing vendor & 3rd party relationships.

• Experience of developing effective working relationships at all levels across the business, partnered with strong business and change acumen.

• Extensive project, programme, and portfolio experience.

• Experience with senior-level stakeholder management.

Nice to have

• ICT related science degree and substantial work experience.

• Certified Prince 2 practitioner desirable.

• Certified Agile practitioner desirable.

• Chartered Project Professional desirable.

We're committed to help solve customers' needs, making lives simpler and more affordable, we also want to make big changes to create a cleaner and greener future, by cutting both customer and our own emissions on a path to net zero, we all play a part in making this happen!

Putting customers and colleagues at the heart of everything we do, is our way, community is big here, we have lots for you to explore and to help build your network, including current and former graduates, project sponsors as well as our colleague-led networks such as those focussing on Gender, sexual orientation, disability, and family (plus many more).

Diversity is key to our success, we know to build a more sustainable future, we need the best team - a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We want to build the most diverse workforce and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicities and the differently abled.

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

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