Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Cork/ Hybrid

Duration of the Assignment: 6 months possibly 12 if the right person

Start Date: 1st April or as soon as possible after

Job Purpose and primary objectives:

The Project Manager is responsible for the full lifecycle execution of IT projects and ensuring project delivery is within scope, timeline, and budget.

They mitigate risks and issues and communicate progress to all major stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• A good all-rounder with experience of global migrations and deployments
• Liaise with technical teams to drive delivery, identify potential gaps and find solutions
• Able to understand and assess technical execution options to determine the least amount of risk for the business
• Work with Delivery Teams to coordinate build, test, implementation and decom
• Manage, schedule and resources in an environment where “shared” resources are used for execution.
• Have a deep and comprehensive understanding of organizational and project finances, including CAPEX and OPEX splits, profit and loss, and accruals. Be comfortable with financial approval processes.
• Work as a collaborative member of the Network and Cloud Teams, supporting colleagues as necessary
• Able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, understanding their audience and the nuances that different roles/levels require.
• Must be driven, delivery focused and tenacious. Must enjoy a challenge.

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution, and delivery of projects.
• Defining the project charter, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets, and measures of success
• Develop a detailed integrated project plan and consolidated resource plan.
• Help teams manage their finances by facilitating feature and capability estimations, tracking execution, and ensuring adherence to Lean Budget Guardrails
• Manage project economics, including CARs, VMO go requests, planned cost, actual cost, and variance.
• Tracks spend against program budget and intra-program dependencies.
• Creating and maintaining project documentation
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and sponsor expectations
• Acting as the link between the assigned project resources and key stakeholders
• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.
• Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plans, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule.
• Strong cross-business unit/IT communication, influence, and negotiation required.
• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks.
• Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution
• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps.
• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies
• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing, and commissioning of all projects with no impact on business continuity.
• Responsible for building and leading effective project teams
• Liaise with IT Business Partners and with the Solution Delivery teams to be sure that outcomes are being delivered on time, in-scope, and on budget; facilitate mitigation planning as needed.
• Using problem-solving/critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges.
• Communication to project team members, key stakeholders, and sponsors
• Adapting to cultural and organizational climates across a global team
• Manage individual work styles and development of project staff.
• Serve as primary contact to senior department managers for critical change initiatives within a high matrix environment.
• Work with a cross-functional team, contractors, and vendors to deliver critical projects.

Experience required:

• Experience working in complex, Global organizations
• Bachelor's degree required; Advance degree in IT-related field or MBA preferred.
• 10 Years of Project Management experience in a large multi-unit organization is required.
• 3 years of supervisory experience overseeing global teams, project managers, and application leads.
• Project Management Accreditation (APMP, PMI, Prince 2 or equivalent preferred.
• Advanced project management skills. Knowledge of project management vocabulary and terminology. Mastery of project domain.
• Strong communication, negotiation, analytic, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills. Cultural adaptability. Virtual and remote team management ability. Independent and innovative spirit. Flexible and responsive to input.
• Needs to demonstrate Servant Leadership. The Sr. PM must demonstrate that he/she is there to help achieve the project outcomes/meet the needs of the customer.