Job Title - Senior Project Manager - IT Change Management

Location - Milton Keynes

Rates - GBP372.11 (PAYE) or GBP426.19 (Ltd)

In scope of IR35

My client is looking to employ a Senior Project Manager for a period of 6 months with a view to extending for the right candidate. As the Senior Project Manager, you'll be responsible for assisting with the transition of the Desktop Support Services for the company.

What you will do:

• Assisting with the contract and retendering of the IT Helpdesk Support Services
• Assisting with the business change and new IT Helpdesk Support Services
• Accountable for shaping the project to drive optimum delivery of outputs, including planning at the level appropriate to the complexity of the project, structuring and sequencing appropriate sets of tasks/activities.
• Effectively builds and leads the project delivery team and oversees all suppliers, dependencies, milestones, and significant risks and issues in accordance with standards and guidelines, as described in the operating model and delivery life cycles.
• Monitors and reviews all project delivery budgets, costs, resourcing and drives governance arrangements to support appropriate reporting.
• Manage risk, working with the business and using effective stakeholder management to agree common understanding to mitigate and reduce risk.
• Maintains effective relationships with key customers and stakeholders, making sure effective and robust communication plans are agreed and in place.
• Identifies and implements quality and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Leads and inspires the team to maintain full engagement in meeting business objectives.
• Manages and complies with company procedures to manage appropriate resources, communication strategies, training and competency.
• Supports major business transformation programmes and drives delivery performance improvements across the portfolio and function, acting as Change Ambassadors for the Change and learning Network within Programme & Project Services.

Your experience will include:

Essential

• Contracts and tendering experience essential
• IT Desktop experience or IT Change Management is essential
• Business change and transition change
• Significant proven track record in delivering projects of successful large scale and complex IT projects with an element of business change
• Significant experience in leading project management and delivery.
• Expert knowledge of project management principles, methods, techniques, tools and emerging trends.
• Significant experience in management of customer expectations, senior stakeholders and developing strong relationships across the business.
• Strong leadership skills, motivating and inspiring confidence in others.
• Proven track record in managing staff performance/underperformance and developing high performing staff and teams
• High levels of flexibility, adaptability and broad thinking.
• Proven track record in supplier management and commercial acumen
• Knowledge and experience of applying a range of delivery/development life cycles, eg Waterfall, Agile, Iterative
• Strong financial management skills including quality forecasting

Desirable

• Knowledge of/experience in the UK rail industry or equivalent.
• Formal Programme/Project Management qualifications (eg APM/P - Certified Project Manager, Managing Successful Programmes, and Prince 2)

What you'll get in return

Capita and our client understand what it is like to work as a contractor and we will do everything we can to make it a simple process for you - this includes dedicated on-boarding, extension teams and access to a web based timesheet portal giving you an ability to access and submit your timesheets wherever you are.

About our client

Our client is the largest rail infrastructure business in the country and is at the operational centre of the railway and playing a key role in a rapidly evolving industry. They are responsible for rebuilding Britain's railway infrastructure and are managing some of the biggest and most complex engineering programmes in Europe. Over the next five years they will be spending around GBP23 billion to maintain and upgrade every aspect of an infrastructure that comprises 21,000 miles of track, 2,500 stations, 9,000 level crossings, 40,000 bridges and tunnels, and signalling and power for the movement of 25,000 trains every day.

What we hope you will do next

Help us find out more about you by completing our short application process - Click apply now. You will then be directed to a Capita owned microsite that will assist you with your application. Once completed you will then be contacted by the relevant recruiter.

Our client welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or another irrelevant factor. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.