IT Project Manager

Role: IT Project Manager

Location: Manchester – Hybrid

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The Opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced project manager to lead a portfolio of projects within the NCC - Escode globally. They will need to lead on projects from requirements definition through deployment, establish and manage a project plan, manage project budgets and report anomalies on a regular basis, work collaboratively with the business in terms of delivery including change management. Where necessary they will need to coordinate internal and external resources including negotiating with and managing vendors, as well as ensuring projects remain within scope and budget and/or where necessary managing the change control process. The role will involve project analysis and when necessary, adapt scope, timelines and costs to ensure the projects adhere to the defined requirements. It is essential they establish and maintain relationships with the appropriate stakeholders and provide day-to-day contact on project status and changes.

Key Accountabilities:

Project Planning and Execution -

• Determining and defining project scope and objectives working with a broad cross section of stakeholders from across the Escode business working collaboratively with the Escode Business Partner.
• Develop and own a detailed project plan, in conjunction with the project team. Present in a consumable for to effectively manage stakeholders.
• Build a project aligned budget based on scope of work and resource requirements, identifying risks, and appropriate contingency as required.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope, and within budget.

Stakeholder Management -

• Ensure there is clear sponsorship in place for projects accountable for, supported by an appropriate governance forum to ensure that project health is monitored, and that the necessary support is in place to enable project success.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Manage vendor and supplier contracts associated with the delivery of a project, ensuring the appropriate governance is followed, and planned in the successful delivery of a project.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify the benefits of change and put in place a review process to capture benefit realisation post project delivery.

Resource Management -

• Define project tasks and resource requirements.
• Estimate/forecast all the resources required and associated workloads to meet the project objectives. Where required work with the business team to ensure there is alignment of business resources.

Risk, Issue and Dependency Management -

• Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Monitor project risks regularly and update risk management plans as needed.
• Manage project issues to minimise their impact.
• Manage project dependencies and ensure they do not impact the delivery of key project milestones.

Monitoring and Reporting -

• Own and track project costs to meet budget, ensuring there is a regular forecast update, and report on any unexpected deviation from budget.
• Provide project status updates on a weekly basis to the Escode IT Director, PMO and various key stakeholders on progress to date, highlighting key risks and issues with mitigation plans and actions.
• Manage any change to the project through an appropriate project governance forum.

Minimum Requirements:

• Proven experience in Project Management
• At least three years’ experience of delivering similar projects in similar organisations.
• Worked with different methodologies to support delivery either waterfall or agile based.
• Delivery of application, development, and business change based projects.
• Excellent customer, and internal communications skills.

Desirable Requirements:

• Ideally degree qualified, or equivalent.
• Exposure to the delivery of infrastructure-based projects.
• Specific technologies including Salesforce, and Workday.
• Ideally PMP/Prince 2 qualified

Behaviours:

• Focusing on Clients and Customers
• Working as One NCC
• Being Inclusive and Respectful
• Enabling Performance
• Delivers Brilliantly
• Always Learning
• About NCC Group

The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect.

We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.

About your application

We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

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Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process. This role being advertised will be subject to BS7858 screening as a mandatory requirement.