Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager 2 Years Fixed Term Contract Southampton Overview: In this role you will be successfully managing and delivering multiple concurrent, large, or technically complex ICT projects and programmes that achieve long-term, strategy-aligned outcomes. You will be expected to collaborate closely with senior staff to establish governance frameworks and drive decision-making processes that support project planning and delivery, ensuring they are in line with strategic goals. Responsibilities: Manage project teams, stakeholders, finances, procurement's and benefits to deliver successfully within agreed timescales. Priorities, tolerances and escalations across multiple work streams while complying with project and technical architecture frameworks. To be responsible for projects and programmes as agreed with the line manager. These activities will be large, business critical and possibly ambiguous in nature. Communicate change with a wide cross section using current and new communication methods as required. Stakeholders will include senior staff and external stakeholders.Requirements/Experience MS Dynamics CRM delivery experience Experience with Higher Educational Applications PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent professional Project Management qualification. Significant demonstrable experience of managing programmes or multiple dependent projects that deliver outcomes with large teams. Demonstrable experience of tracking and forecasting project finances. Able to work autonomously, yet collaboratively with senior stakeholders to plan and manage major new projects or programmes, ensuring plans complement broader organisational strategy. Able to review and contribute to road maps and future plans using an understanding of long term aims and needs. Plan projects and/or programmes and maintain multiple plans to control activity and communicate project progress to a wide audience. Deliver to time, budget and quality expectations of project boards. Able to develop understanding of longstanding, technically complex or ambiguous problems and to apply professional knowledge and experience to solve them. Able to liaise with staff in technical and business areas affected by your projects so that work remains aligned to business need and project status is communicated effectively. Use Microsoft Office 365 applications including: Outlook, Visio, Excel, Word, MS Project and Project Online Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy