Project Manager

Description

You will be expected to be on-site with clients on a regular basis per week or as the programme requires.

• Reporting: Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues.
• Planning: Build and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives
• Supplier Management – managing external suppliers to ensure that the scope of work is delivered within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Change Management in terms of processes and procedures, organisational change, training and documentation.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
• Quality Management: Ensure all deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• RAID Management: Identify, manage, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Finance Management: Monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery.

Requirements

We are looking for talented Project Managers, ideally with consultancy experience, to join us at Expleo. This client-facing role will lead projects collaborating with our clients across a wide range of IT deliveries.

The successful candidate will be able to work independently and communicate effectively with stakeholders, as well as internal and external teams. The programme follows a Waterfall process, working with partners who may use Agile methodologies, so solid experience with both methodologies is desirable.

• Experience in data migration from legacy systems to new, including culling of non-essential data and consideration of parallel runs (test environment/production) and multi-wave implementation to production.
• Experience within the automotive industry or energy industry is desirable but not essential
• Strong understanding of the systems development lifecycle.
• Desirable Certifications: MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2
• Experience of leading large-scale projects with multiple sub-projects and inter-dependencies.
• Able to apply project management disciplines such as stakeholder identification and management, supplier management, risk and issue logs, decision logs
• Strong understanding of Agile (Kanban & Scrum)
• An analytical mindset to ensure details are not overlooked and that the critical path is managed throughout the project
• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills – the ability to lead and focus teams in complex projects
• Ability to think logically and use own initiative as well as mine in-house and supplier IP to build on your knowledge base with regards to the industry and the project/programme.
• Strong communication skills in English are essential for effectively interacting with clients
• Strong understanding of Waterfall methodologies
• Strong self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• The ability to understand and lead the construction of system & data integrations
• Comfortable working within a hybrid Waterfall/Agile framework
• Experience of working with Programme and Project managers in large deployments

Benefits

You will be working on a high-profile project with other Project Managers, where your Project and theirs are inter dependent from a timeline and delivery perspective, and so open communication lines and an eye for detail is critical for success.

• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance