Senior IT Project Manager

2 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Calisen Full time

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Senior IT Project Manager who will be responsible for building, managing & implementing projects across Calisen ensuring that outputs are delivered within time, cost & quality constraints.

Using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, the scope of the role includes IT and business implementations, and ranges from managing multiple small projects to leading a large transformation programme, so previous experience in transformation projectsis essential.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Managing and co-ordinating the activities of multiple projects, including balancing priorities of team members with commitments to business as usual activities.
- Demonstrable experience of robustly managing projects, leveraging both waterfall and agile techniques to best suit the needs of the initiative
- Produce consumable stakeholder reporting, dependency management and resource forecasting
- Excellent interpersonal skills to act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders in relation to projects and proactively reaching out to other teams to influence and shape their thinking / actions to enable project delivery.
- Create, manage & implement project plans, plus overseeing & reviewing project plans by the other members of the team.
- Able to negotiate at senior level on technical and commercial issues, to ensure that suppliers and other stakeholders align with the objective and timeframes
- Takes budgetary responsibility for each project phase & has responsibility for providing reliable work estimates.
- Liaise with senior management across Calisen to define and manage project workloads through the established priorities process.
- Improving standards and methodologies with continuous improvement initiatives.
- Liaising with internal and external clients on a regular basis both on and off site (where applicable).
- Identification and management of project risks & issues.
- Adherence to quality management standards for project delivery.
- Active engagement in Change / IT governance mechanisms.
- This role may also require line management responsibility including organisation of staff coverage including sickness & holidays, mentoring the performance of team members tackling any issues that may arise and conducting Return to Work interviews whenneeded.

**What we are looking for**
- Good standard of education at a-level standard or equivalent
- 5 years’ experience personally managing major projects through the full lifecycle - from initiation and planning, through to operational readiness and handover with exposure to each stage of the project life cycle, from inception through to implementationand closure, and an in-depth knowledge of project management concepts & principles.
- Experience in end-to-end Waterfall/Agile Methodologies
- Previous team management experience
- Technically aware in such areas as Software Development Life Cycle and Infrastructure
- Computer literate with experience in BAU Microsoft solutions, plus Project, DevOps, and Jira
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex information to project stakeholders
- Good planning, organisational & problem-solving skills
- Strong financial management skills

**Why work for Calisen**
- 25 Days holiday (incremental to 30 days with yearly service) + Bank holidays + Birthday.
- Competitive Scottish Widows pension scheme.
- Vitality Private Health Insurance.
- Vitality Rewards: Gym membership, cinema, nutritional advice, health checks, travel & more.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Critical Illness Cover
- Life Assurance 4 x annual salary.
- Business Travel Insurance.
- Company Sick Pay.
- Enhanced Maternity Pay.
- Charity Day.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Employee Wellbeing Strategy including Team/Company Away Days, Charity Partnerships, and Company social activities.
- Career Development via Kallidus Learning Management System.
- Company Travel Management Platform.

Calisen is a leading owner and manager of essential energy infrastructure assets, as well as a provider of installation, meter reading, electric vehicle charging, maintenance, and ancillary services through its 3 business units (Calvin Capital, Lowri Beck,and Plug Me In), whose purpose is to accelerate the use of smarter energy for all.
- We will use the information you provide to us to assess your suitability for the role you have applied for. If you are successful, we will carry out a global sanctions, politically exposed persons and an adverse media check against your name and a rightto work in the UK check. We may need to carry out some additional background checks in some circumstances such as CRB check in England and Wales and a Disclosure Scotland check in Scotland. These checks are necessary to meet legal obligations._

**Please note this role is being handled by our internal recruitment team and no agency support is required at this time

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