Project Manager - Northern Ireland in Belfast

Key Responsibilities

• • Hold end-to-end accountability for successful delivery of assigned projects.
  • Deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and success criteria.
  • Maintain focus on project outcomes, ensuring delivery remains aligned to customer objectives and business value.
  • Take ownership of project performance and proactively address delivery risks, issues and obstacles.
  • Escalate delivery concerns appropriately and in a timely manner.
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  Client and Stakeholder Management
  
  
  • Act as the primary point of contact for assigned projects.
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with customer and subcontractor stakeholders.
  • Understand customer business objectives, culture and desired outcomes.
  • Understand the customer business case and identify where project delivery may impact expected benefits.
  • Work collaboratively with commercial, technical, operational and finance teams.
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  Commercial and Contractual Management
  
  
  • Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with contractual obligations.
  • Monitor client responsibilities and dependencies, escalating where obligations are not being met.
  • Support project forecasting, budgeting and cost management activities.
  • Identify and manage changes to scope through approved change control processes.
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  Governance and Controls
  
  
  • Establish and operate effective project governance aligned to organisational standards.
  • Maintain project plans, schedules and forecasting information.
  • Manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies).
  • Maintain accurate project records within organisational delivery tooling.
  • Ensure compliance with PMO standards and quality gate requirements.
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  Team Leadership
  
  
  • Organise, direct and coordinate cross-functional project teams.
  • Set clear objectives and priorities.
  • Maintain focus on project success criteria and key milestones.
  • Support a positive delivery culture that promotes accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Challenge poor performance and seek support where required.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
• Experience working with large public/private organisation’s, delivering custom enterprise business applications projects and understanding the needs of these customers.
• Experience of working with Microsoft Azure Cloud, Dynamics and data based projects.
• Good technical understanding of the Microsoft technology stack.
• Experience of project delivery in the government, higher education or financial services sectors.

• Experience of managing client facing engagements and controlling projects higher than €1M + in value.
• Certification in Prince II, PMI, or equivalent project management methodology.
• Degree level qualification, preferably in IT, Computer Science, or related field.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Results focused; competitive drive and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work on own initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task within the role.
• Excellent business and financial acumen with strong analytical ability.
• Good judgement and decision-making skills.

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