Group Infrastructure Project Manager

The role of Group Infrastructure Project Manager is to coordinate both internal and external teams, to deliver a wide range of Infrastructure projects within the Digital & Technology department. In this role you will be responsible for handling the entire Infrastructure project lifecycle.

As a Project Manager you will lead your project(s) to deliver outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints, manage and lead team members day-to-day and keep key stakeholders up to date, building and maintaining those relationships.

Main Duties

• Understanding of commercial and procurement, solutions development, business change / implementation, business case development, asset allocation and knowledge management


• Engage the business to understand the solution and gain alignment on benefits and scope


• Lead the Infrastructure Team to deliver Projects to plan, utilising tools effectively to do this


• Proven experience within Digital Change / Transformation projects


• Managing a range of small to large projects and associated teams


• Managing the day-day delivery of tasks according to the agreed plans and ensure that project milestones are achieved on time


• To organise the necessary resources to deliver the relevant project by liaising with the appropriate people, including those from third parties, other IT functions, business user groups etc.


• Management of Project plans, RAID logs and financial budgets


• Creation of Project Documentation using PMO Framework


• Management of cross-function teams across the wider business


• Preparation of funding requests, release approvals and other necessary processes, as well as active participation in the related meetings


• Participate and present when required in the Change Approval Board (CAB)


• To work with the project team, suppliers, and other stakeholders to keep the project on track


• Works with partners and business stakeholders to ensure solution scope and transition approach is fully defined, understood, agreed and successfully implemented.


• Clearly communicate status updates to the line manager and stakeholders, including early identification of issues and solutions


• Production of project status reports for stakeholder communication and project team alignment


• To actively support the development of improved management processes, ensuring effective control, governance, and resource planning in line with business requirements and demand


• Consults regularly with Digital & Technology staff and departmental colleagues to evaluate if developed solutions are being used to their fullest advantage and yielding the greatest possible efficiencies
  
  Experience as a Project Manager in a large Global organisation


• Experience of delivering technology infrastructure projects


• Strong customer relationship building skills and ability to liaise with/manage 3rd


• Experience of Risk Management and comfortable with escalation of such risk to PMO


• Experience of working with senior stakeholders up to regional and global management levels


• Experience of managing change within business and IT functions


• Experience of managing project scope


• Ability to organise and manage own time according to agreed project priorities and deadlines


• Analytical approach to assessing options and providing recommendations


• Ability to act at pace


• Knowledge and proven use of Project management methodology - PRINCE2, Agile/Waterfall


• Willingness to travel as required by projects