IT Project Manager - Reading - Outside IR35

Posted 10 March 2021
Salary £450 - £500 per day
LocationReading
Job type Contract
ReferenceBBBH114444_1615401345

Job description

Investigo's major client based in Reading are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager. If you have experience of successfully delivering as an IT and Business Project Manager in a multi-project environment, then this is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, success-driven organisation.

Key responsibilities:

  • Facilitating the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
  • Identification of key-stakeholder for the project team
  • Defining project tasks and resource requirements
  • Developing full scale project plans and assembling and coordinating project staff
  • Management and responsibility of project budget
  • Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
  • Provide direction and support to project teams
  • Assurance of timely input from the external partner
  • Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders through steering committee
  • Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
  • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
  • Project evaluations and assessment of results
  • Management and escalation of open issues;
  • Supervision of the project risk management;
  • Supervision of testing, manual and automated

Experience

Essential:

  • Prince 2 Practitioner
  • Experience delivering IT and Business projects (ideally 7 years +)
  • Project Finance budgeting and actual costs
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Extensive Change Management experience
  • Account/relationship management
  • Prior experience working on complex technical infrastructure projects
  • Prior experience working on business focused projects
  • Proven experience working with cross functional tech and infrastructure technical teams.
  • Experience working in a complex organisation including working directly with a variety and range of non-technical stakeholders.

Although remote working initially, all applicants must be willing and able to travel to (Reading) once government restrictions surrounding COVID19 travel are eased.