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Senior Project Manager

Location:

London/Hybrid

Salary

: Competitive + Benefits

Role type:

permanent

Hours:

35 hours

Purpose of role

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading a strategic project to upgrade the MDU/DDU websites via an updated design system, along with new branding onto a new technology platform. This will span across multiple business areas. They are responsible for managing resources, schedules, financials and adherence to stage gate quality gates and control guidelines throughout the full development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.

Reporting into the change team you will plan and support strategic change management projects as well as significant tactical projects. This will include implementing changes to MDU policy/strategy coupled with technology enhancements, organisational change and major business process reviews and requirements.

Main accountabilities

Upgrade the MDU/DDU websites via an updated design system, along with new branding onto a new technology platform. Ensure alignment with company strategies for Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Architecture. Identify the required target operating model and establish documented processes to provide the required levels of support. Identify changes in the threat landscape and develop new documented controls as required by the technology changes. Ensure operational resilience to minimise single points of failure and potential business impact caused by outages of the telephony platform or components within it. Ensure applications have the required level of operational resilience as part of migration in accordance with the criticality of the application or service to the business. Establish governance processes, service level agreements, and reporting expectations for the new web site platform. Provision of a seamless transition with minimal, ideally zero, outages to business services. Provide leadership for project teams by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones. Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.

Qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience

Relevant degree/professional/business qualified project manager with a recognised project management qualification Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and programme team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance Demonstrated experience in delivering strategic IT transformation projects. Experience delivering website implementations and technology adoption projects on various platforms. Familiarity with Website infrastructure and designs principles. Experience managing stakeholder engagement across technical, compliance, and business functions. Extensive experience of Change Management/Project Management/Risk Management


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