Details:
- Salary: £450 - 500 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Nationwide
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Our client is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager on an initial 6 month contract, working on a remote basis.
Project Manager
£450 - £500 per day inside IR35
Home based
The successful candidate will be an experienced Project Manager who has worked on Transformation and/or Business Change programmes. You will have a Prince 2 / Project Management certification, have experience managing project risk and issues, have managed projects through the complete lifecycle including managing the project change control process and have managed budgets. There are a range of projects available including implementing new digital solutions to improve efficiencies, leading system change and identifying opportunities for cost saving amongst others.
Key duties –
Manage the successful delivery of a project on time, to budget and of the right quality, reporting progress to the Project Board and ultimately bringing the project to a controlled close.
Manage project budgets in accordance with financial procedures and regulations; managing actual and forecast expenditure to within agreed tolerances and reporting variances to the Project Board as necessary.
As part of the Business Case development, lead the business in exploring options, fully costing these and identifying realistic and measurable project benefits (including establishing suitable benefit owners and putting in place appropriate benefit realisation plans) to support informed decision making.
Build, maintain and execute a fully integrated, realistic and deliverable end to end project plan (including any standalone contingency, transition, testing and/or training plans) identifying key milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, critical path and associated assumptions in line with the overarching programme and portfolio plan (as applicable).
Establish and maintain appropriate governance structures to support and enable delivery, integrated with other existing portfolio, programme and business decision-making bodies as appropriate The ideal candidate will have experience working within the public sector, however this isn’t essential.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established organisation with potential for contract extensions