senior project manager

Senior Project Manager - Remote Working

At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever – and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

The senior project manager manages major projects and multiple projects for large programmes for Capita. The senior project manager may deputise for the programme manager on an ad-hoc basis when required.

The senior project manager is accountable to the project board and ultimately the executive and has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis, within the constraints laid down by them.

The senior project manager’s prime responsibility is to ensure that the project produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefits and risk. The senior project manager is also responsible for the project producing a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the business case.

 

Accountabilities and main responsibilities:
Prepare baseline management products in conjunction with any project assurance roles, and agree them with the project board.
Manage the project plan using Microsoft project application
Manage teams to deliver multiple projects for a programme
Deputise for the programme manager when required
Tailor the method to suit the project’s situation, documenting this, as appropriate, in the PID.
Liaise with portfolio, programme management or the customer to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated by related projects.
Liaise with any external suppliers or account managers.
Lead and motivate the project management team.
Establish behavioural expectations of team members.
Manage the information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project.
Manage the production of the required products, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
Establish and manage the project’s procedures: risk management, issue management, change control and communication.
Establish and manage the project controls: monitoring and reporting.
Authorise work packages.
Advise the project board of any deviations from the plan.
Unless appointed to another person(s), perform the team manager role
Unless appointed to another person (or portfolio, programme management or customer function), perform the project support role
Implement the change control approach.
Ensure project personnel comply with the change control approach.
Schedule audits to check that the physical products are consistent with the configuration item records and initiate any necessary corrective action.

 

About you
At least 5 years of experience delivering projects;
You will be personally and professionally committed to the Programme Function’s mission to improve programme and project delivery across Capita;
You will have leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate project delivery teams;
Personable and pro-active professional, able to demonstrate full commitment to providing exceptional customer care and service in all activities;
Excellent levels of time management and personal organisation; able to multi-task;
Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation;
Experience in leading major technical projects or workstreams with both UK and Offshore teams
Ability to work either as part of a team or as the single representative on a project;
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally;
Outcome focussed and able to make tactical decisions, within their area of discretion, to ensure that the overall project aims (and therefore the aims of the programme) are met in full;
Able to prioritise and re-prioritise, based on changing conditions on the ground, and balance this with commercial imperatives;
You will be familiar operating in complex and large-scale organisational environments;
Experience of managing the design, build, test and deployment of major technology driven projects through the use of agile and waterfall methodology;
Experience of owning and managing project requirements through the project life cycle using different approaches to verifying and validating the requirements;
Experience of acting as a systems integrator that builds solutions from a variety of technology components and suppliers that provides customers a complete end to end solution
You are likely to be degree educated or equivalent, and potentially to hold a recognised post-graduate qualification;
Accreditation in industry-recognised qualifications and standards (including but not limited to PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, TOGAF, ITIL, COBiT, SAFe) is desirable but not essential