Technical Project Manager Role – 6 month contract – Automotive

Job Description

Job title: Technical Project Manager Role – 6 month contract – Automotive

Company: GCS Recruitment Specialists

Job description: Role – Technical Project Manager

Rate – £400 – £600 per day

Duration – 6 months initially, extendable thereafter

Location – Hybrid – Remote / London / Milton Keynes – on site when needed, majority remotely.

Industry – Automotive

The Organisation

• A well-funded, progressive and unique automotive organisation is looking for a Technical Project manager to orchestrate several parties in the delivery of a C#, SQL and Azure data heavy platform. This role requires someone to work with a 3rd party development team, internal stakeholders and users to deliver a data heavy tech platform on time, to budget and scale.

Key decision-making in the job

• To work with teams in and outside of the organisation to get technical platforms delivered
• To define and manage project plans, controls and processes with appropriate stakeholders
• To use judgement in prioritising demands across stakeholders and activities with minimal supervision.

Main responsibilities of the role

• Use best practice project management methodologies to manage specified projects within a clear framework.
• Work with colleagues and stakeholders to scope, document and agree project requirements.
• Develop and maintain appropriate documentation for your projects including Project Canvas documents, briefs, specifications, GANTT charts, requirements/user stories and testing plans.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of project management and be accountable for delivery to agreed time, cost and quality specifications.
• Manage the end-to-end project process, building effective relationships, managing stakeholder expectations, translating their requests into tasks/user stories.
• Manage any change requests for the project(s) and advise on impact to project time line, budget and risk. Advise any impact to the overall programme and any dependencies impacted.
• Monitor progress whilst documenting, resolving or escalating risks and issues as appropriate.
• Coordinate and communicate with the external developemet team and stakeholders including leading weekly project meetings
• Manage all aspects of delivering a digital product/project including content planning, testing and launch planning.

Skills this person requires are…

• Excellent and demonstrable project management, organisation and time management skills
• Able to run both Agile and Waterfall projects
• Well versed in technical web based projects
• Influencing skills – the ability to bring others to your way of thinking diplomatically
• Proactive – to think ahead and act to ensure the smooth completion of team/individual aims and objectives
• Dependable – able to complete tasks to high standard and to deadline
• Organisational skills – ability to work with minimum supervision, prioritise workload, and handle multiple tasks
• Interpersonal skills – ability to positively communicate with others; the confidence to listen and understand
• Communication skills – ability to express information clearly and effectively in written and oral form

GCS Computer Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Expected salary: £400 – 600 per day

Location: Milton Keynes

Job date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 02:24:43 GMT

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