Senior Technical Project Manager
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Job Title:Senior Technical Project Manager
Job Reference: 28244
Band:BAND D
Salary:70000-80000k depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type:Permanent role
Location: London Salford Birmingham or Cardiff. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
Were happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression- the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities- our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits- We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to ourcandidate pack.
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Job Introduction
To deliver projects in Corporate Systems within BBC Technology Group to stakeholder expectations
within the agreed brief and constraints of time cost scope and quality using the most appropriate
approach for the project and domain.
Role Responsibilities
Approach and planning
Work with business or product owner and stakeholders to understand the strategic objectives
and establish the project objectives and outputs or high-level benefits to be delivered.
Establish the projects level of complexity and agree with the owner the options and
appropriate approach for delivery.
Foster the conditions for the project team to perform and lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure
clarity of scope good estimating solution development and manage the risks.
Produce a project management plan to get agreement with stakeholders for the purpose
nature and scope of the project and secure the mandate to proceed with shaping the project.
Draw on own experience and actively seek out and apply relevant lessons from other projects
and share with the project team.
Delivery
Manage and deliver the project within the agreed time cost and quality constraints to enable
delivery of the agreed outputs and/or benefits.
Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders address issues and deliver effective
communication strategies.
Put in place handover plans and ensure business ownership is established for the ongoing
ownership of outputs and/or realisation of benefits.
Apply oversight and evaluate monitor and manage risks issues assumptions dependencies
interdependencies and changes escalating those outside tolerance if appropriate.
Maintain suitable plans manage the delivery of minimum requirements and/or critical success
factors and effectively manage people (including third parties) and other resources.
Monitor progress regularly report on status and initiate corrective actions. Ensure all
expenditure (or activity) is tracked and reconciled to budget/plan with forecast to complete or
value returned to inform decision making.
Ensure adherence to BBC policies and standards for project management health and safety
financial legal and technology and any other compliance requirements.
Approvals Governance and Benefits
Support the business (customer) deliver key project documentation and ensure change
management activities are executed (e.g. relevant training) to enable business adoption of
changes.
Complete and review the benefits realisation plan and facilitate formal handover of the plan and
any ongoing activities to the relevant business area.
Are you the right candidate
Essential
Experience of delivering SAP software projects
Experience of delivering complex technology projects (e.g. multiple workstreams third-
party/supplier management budget of >500k)
Working knowledge of the project lifecycle products techniques methodologies approaches
and the understanding of how to best apply to the situation.
Excellent and well-practiced communication (spoken written listening) interpersonal and
influencing skills with the ability to bridge specialism and business through user-friendly
language.
Ability to effectively deal with difficult stakeholders navigate ambiguous changeable
complex environments and achieve desired outcomes.
Ability to work at pace & remain resilient when faced with conflicting priorities or demands
Experience of managing procurement and/or commercial processes as part of the end-to-end
project lifecycle
Strong Microsoft Office skills including Project and PowerPoint and experience in
manipulating data to make it meaningful for different audiences.
Desirable
Project Management qualification or accreditation (e.g. PRINCE 2 APM PMI)
Knowledge of the media sector.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC whether thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
