IT Project Manager 4 Year Ftc

2 weeks ago


Castleford, United Kingdom Nigel Wright Full time

**The Opportunity**
Northern Powergrid owns and operates the network that distributes electricity to homes and businesses across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. Employing over 2,500 people, the business has 8 million customers and supplies 3.9 million propertiesvia 60,000 miles of overhead powerlines and underground cables.
As part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE), the energy division of a US owned multinational conglomerate, Northern Powergrid is now embarking on a Digital Transformation which will modernise their systems and processes and enable them to satisfy the needs ofcustomers and stakeholders whilst streamlining the employee experience. Creating a modern workplace which enables employees through the use of systems will be a key outcome of the programme. As a result, they are looking to recruit a number of roles that willbe integral to delivering this programme of work over the coming years.
**The Role**
In this additional role, reporting to the Programme Manager you will be responsible for delivering key large scale projects of the ERP programme of work. Specifically you will:

- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline the work plan
- Establish the work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel
- Implement project communications plans
- Perform risk assessment and implement migration plans
- Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and integrity of the information, while providing consistency in content and "look and feel" across the enterprise
- Ensure the project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives
- Assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority to project personnel
- Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure that the project progresses on schedule and within budget
- Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required
- Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation
- Continuously benchmark project management performance to identify improvements and achieve higher capability maturity in project and portfolio management

**The Requirements**
As an experienced IT Project Manager, you will have managed similarly large and complex, high profile transformation IT projects. Ideally with ERP implementation experience, you will:

- Have the ability to lead and motivate others, demonstrating empathy and knowledge of personality types
- Be familiar with project management methodologies (for example, PMI, Prince2 and Agile)
- Be capable of demonstrating sensitivity to working in a political environment and to interacting with senior leadership
- Possess exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Be an expert in setting and managing customer expectations
- Have a distinctive blend of business, IT financial and communication skills

Experience with the following will be beneficial:

- Working in an industrial environment that has gone through modernisation
- Prior engagement with operational and notably field staff
- Back office system implementations


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