IT Project Manager

Our client, a large Aerospace and Defence supplier is looking for an IT Project Manager to join them on a 6-month contract at their site in either Harlow or Glenrothes.

Due to the nature of the role, applications must be willing to undergo SC Clearance and be living in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.
Hybrid working in either Harlow or Glenrothes.
£(Apply online only) p/d Umbrella, inside IR35.
6 month contract.

Main Duties

Manages all aspects of multiple highly complex projects concurrently from initiation through closure taking full end to end responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of the projects.
Manages digital and infrastructure projects and programs, typically involving multiple disciplines in the digital technology function through the life cycle of a project or program.
Utilize expertise and leadership skills to direct teams to fulfil organizational demand and to resolve issues to ensure project or program goals and requirements are met.
Provides scope and/or budget bids and analysis, resource allocation and coordination of project/program activities.
Assigns and monitors work of the interdisciplinary team, ensuring the body of work is in alignment with business objectives and/or contracts, on-time and within scope and/or budget.
Monitors reliability and any internal issues that appear as a result of the project.
Manages all project risk; including time, budget, and scope, and the associated plans to contain and/or mitigate risk.
Establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders - including third parties/vendors; liaising and communicating effectively as required.
Selects the appropriate methods, tools and artefacts within the IT IPDS delivery methodology, ensuring that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained in line with agreed governance.
Adheres to all digital technology governance policies and procedures.
Requires eloquent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate efficiently with a diversified audience including C-level executives.

Candidate Requirements

Essential

Prior experience in Project Management within defence or highly regulated technical industry, ideally within global environments and/or global matrix organisations.
Demonstrable senior project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and communication.
Capable of leading complex infrastructure and technology projects; e.g., multiple stakeholders, teams of greater than 5 people, of greater than 6 months duration, and greater than £0.5m in budget.
Proven experience of full lifecycle management of IT Programmes and Projects from inception to delivery, especially solution identification, design, pricing, risk management and early project definition before transition into service operation.
Experience of the critical project to service transition phase and associated early lifecycle support.
Proven experience of Program and Project Management Best Practice.
Ability to understand complex systems and business processes and define requirements for solutions.
Experience of operating effectively under the governance of a PMO structure.
Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, presentation and influencing, at all levels within an organisation.
Solid experience of delivering complex technical projects across the IT domain especially Application and Server migrations
High level of proficiency in MS Project, Team Foundation, or other robust scheduling/schedule presentation tools.
Proficient in the use of all MS Office tools.
5 years+ experience in project management.
PRINCE 2 and/or PMP certifications.
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Science, or Mathematics
SC cleared or the ability to become SC cleared