Senior Project Manager (Public Sector)
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Job Summary
We are growing our Delivery team and looking for a Senior Project Manager with experience working in the UK public sector to join us on our exciting journey and be part of the Hitachi Solutions family.
The successful candidate will draw upon their project management and delivery experience to advise clients on our best practices and deliver our projects on time and to budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for the successful delivery of government projects up to 8m ensuring adherence to agreed timelines and maintaining high-quality standards. Collaborate with the regional project assurance team and the relevant Programme Manager or Project Director for support.
- Responsible for project scope management and strict adherence to the published methodology and project controls as per GDS service standards.
- Oversee the overall performance of project delivery work ensuring the quality of all deliverables and compliance with internal controls and processes ensuring that projects are also delivering to GDS best practice and service standards.
- Accountable for effective time and expenses management in accordance with relevant policies and contractual obligations.
- Ensure accurate creation of revenue recognition estimates or Time and Materials invoices aligned with the project schedule.
- Lead the documentation of meeting minutes for all formal meetings capturing actions and decisions promptly.
- Ensure that work submitted by the project team including subcontracted staff meets the required Hitachi and GDS quality standards promptly addressing any concerns with the Regional Project Director.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships across multiple government departments (GD) and/or arms length bodies
- Communicate and build an understanding of programme across client multiple departments and/or agencies
- Manage interdependencies across workstreams or programme portfolios
Qualifications :
Key Competencies
- Exhibits strong leadership qualities; is able to manage a number of multidisciplinary teams of 8-12 people and is able to provide support guidance and motivation for team members identifying where additional time needs to be set aside to provide additional support and escalates to the Project Director when progress is not made.
- Demonstrable experience of working with defined project methodologies that follow GDS Best Practice including the GDS Service Standards and associated project governance models is essential. Candidates should be able to articulate the benefits and structure of the team to clients.
- Structured and disciplined approach to management with a flexible mindset.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to produce high quality and professional written documentation including Statements of Work Contracts and Presentations.
- Commercial awareness with an understanding of Crown Commercial Services Frameworks.
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation skills
- Has successfully taken a UK Government Agency through at least 3 assessments ideally through Alpha and Beta phase assessments.
- Evidence of delivering Digital Services following GDS service standards is essential.
- Evidence of passing CDDO assessments and stage gates is essential.
- Sets clear vision and direction of the programme which aligns to GD business goals and policy a
- Has ability to communicate programme delivery in a language that GD senior management understand
- Be aware or have experience in public sector procurement rules (e.g. PCR social value)
- Be aware of government Technology Code of Practice.
- Clear concise communication for non-technical and senior audiences
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- PMBOK
- Waterfall
- Wastewater
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- Contracts
About Company
Hitachi solutions is the global leader in delivering success with business applications based on Microsoft Cloud, including Dynamics 365. With deep industry expertise and the latest technologies around ERP, CRM, Field service, BI, IOT and Ecommerce, we help companies transform their b ... View more
