Project Manager

Project Manager | Contract | Mobile Delivery | Inside IR35 | Hybrid working (London, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester)

My client is setting about transforming a traditional Telco business into a Digital and Entertainment company covering streaming, internet, connected home devices, retail, and entertainment.

As part of this large digital transformation, my client is looking to speak to experienced contract project managers, with good knowledge of and experience with Mobile products and services.

Details of the role:

Candidates must have experience managing projects of this scale:

1. Direct Reports: Virtual – a span of up to 100 people across the organization plus a small number of 3rd party suppliers.

2. Budget responsibility up to £5m. Business change pan Mobile delivery. Lead multiple projects dependent upon scale and complexity.

Job responsibilities:

· Leading – Coordinating virtual teams (<100), working with external partners and suppliers, to deliver against business objectives.

· Influencing – Using business and domain expertise to affect project outcomes

· Planning – E2E planning of projects, including resources, negotiating, and securing resources as required.

· Negotiating – Interlocking projects with dependencies and dependant projects, securing prioritisation and alignment as required.

· Driving – E2E ownership of the project. Ensure delivery to time, budget, and quality as expected.

· Governing – responsible for project governance, budget management (<£5m), risk, issue and change management for the entire project.

· Reporting – Provides reports to time and standard as directed by PMO, socialising within key stakeholder groups.

· Collaborating – working across all design and delivery partners to produce coherent project outcomes

· Communicating – working across the stakeholder group, and up to the Director level, visibly owning delivery, change and engagement for the project

Skills required:

• Leadership Skills – Able to provide effective leadership to the project team, and take appropriate action
• Communication Skills – Able to lead communication with stakeholders and work to drive strong, open and sustained communication channels both within the project team and with the wider stakeholder community. Up to ‘Director of’.
• Negotiation skills – able to work with stakeholders to shape the project and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing
• Planning Skills – the ability to organize tasks in the right order, to hit the right outcome at the right time
• Business change skills – able to identify business impacts, and drive adoption of new practices, tools, and methods
• Budgeting Skills – able to proactively forecast and manage the project costs to forecasts, both Opex and Capex.
• Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.

Behaviours:

· Bold Decision Maker

· Collaborative Partner

· Commercial Thinker

Experience:

· Professional experience delivering complex business change projects (<£5m) within a Gated, and/or Agile Project Governance process, focussed on:

o Ways of working

o Process re-engineering and introduction

o 3rd party commercial alignment

o Stakeholder comms and training

o Business change readiness

o Underpinning through supporting technical deliveries

· Excellent track record in enabling benefit realisation through project delivery within a fast-paced, Technology environment in the telecoms business using a range of internal and external suppliers to deliver.

· Experience working with a range of stakeholders, up to ‘Director of’ levels.

· Good knowledge of and experience with Mobile products and services.