IT Project Manager (ERP / SAP) - London

One of the UK’s leading providers of key UK infrastructure requires an IT Project Manager with some experience managing ERP / SAP projects. This company provides a diverse portfolio of key UK infrastructure; their business is large and complex.

This role will require you to drive forward the delivery of projects to achieve an effective business outcome, ensuring successful delivery within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. You have the ability to cope with uncertainty, conflict and change. You are flexible, persistent, and have well-developed creative problem-solving skills. You will be able to work independently with a strong bias towards getting things done, understanding the true value to the business of meeting objectives and timely delivery.

Accountabilities:

• Defines plans for large projects, communicating complex schedules clearly & concisely to project team & stakeholders.
• Defines financial schedules for large projects, identifying & mitigating potential risks & issues regarding the business case with support from peers.
• Communicates project cost-benefit analyses to senior client stakeholders in an engaging format to achieve their buy-in.
• Builds business cases for significant expenditures or headcount requisitions.
• Builds quality assurance plans for complex projects to ensure consistent quality of deliverables throughout a project.
• Adheres to organisational operating framework processes and practices.
• Identifies potential project risks before they arise throughout large projects and updates project issue log & risk register, identifying feasible mitigation suggestions for each risk.
• Confidently addresses large audiences, relaying information clearly and leaving a sense of excitement and anticipation around the project.
• Actively manages resourcing issues, developing, and implementing appropriate mitigating measures to maintain resource use alignment to forecasts.
• Leads communication with suppliers, competently managing multiple vendors at each stage of the project lifecycle and assertively manages supplier performance, defining KPIs and measuring success against them.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications Essential:

• Broad project management experience and a deep understanding and ability to apply available project management standards, tools and techniques.
• Track record of delivering complex technology projects to scope, time and budget.
• Experience in team leadership, including motivation and direction of project team members.
• Foster a culture of collaborative working and transparency both within the team and with external stakeholders, especially the customer.
• Track record of the production of accurate and concise project deliverables, structured in an appropriate business format.
• Track record of use and promotion of formal methodology and tools within project teams.
• Ability to manage remote teams and 3rd party delivery.
• Supplier management skills with a strong commercial acumen.
• Willingness to travel around the Group as required for specific projects.
• Possess a degree in an IT-related subject relevant to this post.
• Project Management qualifications e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, Agile PM.
• Managing projects in an SAP landscape.

This position is split between London and remote. Initially, the position is on a 6 month FTC basis with the view to go permanent. The salary is a basic between £55K – 65K + package.