Senior Project Manager, Greenfield Projects across a variety of Industries, Leading Design and Technology Consultancy recruitment

Senior Project Manager, Greenfield Projects across a variety of Industries, Leading Design and Technology Consultancy.

Introduction: Montash Associates have been engaged by a niche design and technology consultancy, to assist in the acquisition of a Senior Project Manager. This individual will work together with various stakeholders to create a core design and development strategy, and then work directly with clients from a variety of industries, including Investment Banks, Military Organisations and leading Energy Providers, amongst others.

The Organisation: A highly successful niche design and technology consultancy that prides itself on delivering successful projects for its clients. These projects aim to deliver smart and essential products or services, supporting expert users day-in, day-out. This group of like-minded designers and technologists have a pedigree in working on the most complex challenges, and have enjoyed a very successful year of winning some exciting and highly profitable new business across industries.

The Project: A variety across several industries, including trading platform development for leading Investment Bank, Defence System design for a military organisation and a variety of other leading firms in both the public and private sectors.

The Role: The role is responsible for robust planning, effective execution of project activities and deliverables, managing client expectation and the escalation of risks and issues. The main areas of responsibility will be Planning and control, Delivery management, Stakeholder management and communication:

•Planning and Control

•Planning projects based on unique approach

•Facilitating the Discovery and Requirement Definition process

•Working with the team and the customer to plan releases and iteration workloads

•Driving and facilitating prioritization of functionality

•Resource balancing, forecasting and acquisition in order to support activity load

•Working with the Engagement Managers to construct execution Budgets

•Planning and agreeing risk management approach and change control

•Delivery Management

•Driving the Agile approach to design and delivery

•Effective delivery management and constant release plan balancing based on Iteration progress

•Effective work schedule management

•Identification, escalation and resolution of priority conflicts

•Risk and issue management

•Change management and prioritization

•Drive the solution governance activity and ensure that all required quality gateway criteria is being planned and executed

•Team motivation and morale

•Stakeholder Communications and Management

•Providing Senior Stakeholder management information

•Regular project reporting

•Communication/Promotion of success

•Risk and issue escalation

•Resource qualification and justification

•Regular communication of objectives, the plan, progress and priorities to the team

•Cascade communications from senior stakeholders to the execution team

The Skills: All applicants will possess the following, with some flexibility:

•Excellent knowledge of Software Solution Management

•Knowledge of Agile Methodologies

•Scope management skills

•Risk and change management hardliner

•UX and design process experience

•Excellent organisational aptitude and attitude

•Good stakeholder management

•Management and Leadership skills

•Excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills

The Package: This highly successful and profitable organisation has just won some big business and has plenty more in the pipeline. With this in mind, they need some of the best people in the industry to help drive the company forward, and will be paying packages to attract these candidates. Salaries up to £60k for the most senior team members, plus £Benefits + £Bonus are achievable.

Contact: If this opportunity is of interest, or for a conversation about the London Design and Technology industry in general, please contact Paul Kirtley at paulk@montash.com, or on 0207 749 6066

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