IT Project Manager Infrastru/applications/ Remote

JOB PROFILE
Job Title: IT Project Manager
Reports To: IT Project Portfolio Manager
Responsible for: Managing project resources (no direct reports)
Grade / Salary: Competitive
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Flexible with business related travel, as required
ROLE PURPOSE
The Group has embarked on a growth agenda and has an ambition to grow its asset base,
increase margins, improve operational ways of working and customer and client experience and
increase its social responsibility. IT has a critical role to play in achieving the Groups' ambition to
deliver a best-in-class Customer experience and increase the efficiency, effectiveness and
productivity of the workforce.
The Group Information and Technology (IT) function has a critical role to play in supporting the Group's commitment to put 'People First' (our customers, clients and colleagues) and to be a digital business. IT's strategic objective is to partner with the businessfunctions to proactively deliver innovative digital solutions and create technology platforms that allow the Group to flex and operate in an environment in which the pace of change, often technology-driven, continues to increase enabling the Group to meetand exceed its strategic objectives ensuring that people are our first priority.
The PURPOSE OF THE IT PROJECT MANAGER is to deliver technology solutions which meet the
requirements of the business, ensuring suitable governance and documentation is in place to fully scope, plan and monitor project delivery.
development and integration projects. This will include ensuring that the projects are correctly specified, delivered on time, meet business & technical requirements and are within the agreed budget. Projects will be resourced using a combination of internaland external resources and so may third parties to be managed.
Key deliverables include, but are not limited to:

- Preparation of project delivery plans to include resource planning and dependency management
- Project governance documentation for all projects under management including risk and issue registers and actions logs
- Comprehensive stakeholder management/communication plans
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE FOR IT INFRASTRUCTURE/APPLICATIONS PROJECT MANAGER
Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems or other relevant
- Experience of developing and improving Office 365 stacks including SharePoint Online, Housing Systems, ERP Business World and Salesforce.
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle and cloud management and monitoring platforms
- Experience of IT risk assessment, continuity management and the formulation of best practice governance models and principles
- Substantial experience of leading and supporting the end-to-end lifecycle process and successful delivery of large business critical change projects that are underpinned by a technology solution
- Demonstrable experience of gathering, analysing and translating complex business requirements into business-friendly language and solution designs
- Experience of managing budgets and resources efficiently and effectively
- Experience of managing multiple internal & external stakeholders including 3rd party suppliers, vendors and contractors
- Experience of undertaking accurate and effective cost benefit analysis
- Appropriate professional accreditations (PRINCE2)
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft products including Excel, Access, Powerpoint, MS Project,
Visio, Project Centre
- Strong knowledge of and / or a natural curiosity for technology
Beneficial
- Experience with DevOps and Continuous Development and Continuous Integration methodologies
- Experience of using Salesforce.
- Experience of Northgate and Civica Housing Systems
- Experience working with Telephony platforms
- Experience of Business World and ERP solutions
- Experience of working in blue chip or large, complex organisations and / or of incorporating acquired or merged companies into a single estate.
- Experience of using management tools: SCCM, SCOM, BitLocker - Citrix Xen desktop in the skills area - Exposure to AWS - Exposure to Azure - Exposure to O365 Working Conditions/Relationship
- Housing sector experience.
- ITIL Foundation
- ISO Standards 9001 and / or ISO 27001 / 27002
- Full current UK driving license
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