Senior Project Manager
Job Description
Job title: Senior Project Manager
Company: Core-Asset Consulting
Job description: Job Description:
Our client, a leading financial services firm has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join their team. The successful candidate will play a key role in planning and managing multiple projects from start to finish. You will be comfortable leading projects and work with stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered within their intended outcomes.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Extensive experience working within Project Management within Financial Services ideally working on projects within Sales and/or Marketing
- Prince 2 or another recognised professional Change Delivery qualification desirable.
- Experience and understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies
- Previous experience of working with outsourced service providers
- Excellent influencing & negotiation skills
- Extensive project planning experience
- Strong resource, change and budget management experience.
- Proven ability to influence and motivate others
Core Responsibilities:
- Delivery of complex projects and portfolios of change
- Stakeholder management – influencing stakeholders across the business at all levels
- Managing of third parties to ensure delivery to their commitments for the business
- Team Management – undertaking 21s for any staff assigned
- Project governance – reporting and tracking.
- Reviewing and monitoring progress against project plans to ensure outputs are delivered to time, budget and quality specifications.
- Managing risks, issues, and resources to ensure milestone dates are achieved.
- Managing projects within the agreed budget, applying the defined change management processes when required. Estimating project costs as required
- Reporting project progress in line with stated policies and procedures
- Responsibility for the day-to-day task management of Business and Operational Analysts assigned to projects.
Benefits:
- A highly competitive salary
- Wider Benefits package
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 15438
To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
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