Senior Project Manager

**Senior Project Manager**

**£46,910 per annum**

**Swindon, Newport or Billingham**

**Full-time or Part-time considered**

**Closing date: Wednesday 24th August**

**Why choose UK SBS?**

It is an exciting time to join us at UK SBS, we are a well-established business with a supportive and friendly culture, entering a period of transformation. We want to hire and retain great talent which is why we’re investing in and growing our workforce,who we know will play a key role in supporting us to achieve our ambitions. We’re embracing a hybrid way of working, as well as other extensive benefits, including:

- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 30 days within 3 years of service
- A generous pension scheme
- Family friendly benefits including flexible working and 26 weeks maternity/adoption leave at full pay
- Training, professional development and qualification opportunities
- Lifestyle platform offering employee discounts on various high street shops, restaurants and gym memberships

**What will you be doing?**

Working within our Partnerships & Change team, the Senior Project Manager will lead and manage complex and potentially politically sensitive projects in support of UK SBS’ strategic vision and the needs of our client bodies, promoting high quality resultsand user confidence.

The role requires the use of recognised project management techniques to initiate, manage, deliver and close down complex projects. These projects could range from focused IT development through to business change projects. They will be responsible for deliveringon time, within budget and to the agreed quality, while also concentrating on the projected benefits. There is a strong stakeholder element to this role across team members, SRO, clients and 3rd party suppliers. The complexity of the projects requires stronggovernance, planning, risk and budgetary management. A Senior Project Manager must be sensitive to the strategic needs of the organisation and how these project(s) will deliver the benefits required.

UK SBS follows the PRINCE2 Agile methodology but tailors depending on the nature of the project.

**_Key responsibilities will include:_**
- Lead complex and/or politically sensitive projects from inception to delivery into live service, maintaining project momentum and focus
- Play a key role in the shaping of projects at inception working with senior stakeholders at a strategic level. This will include developing and/or validating the project business case, and establishing the methods and metrics for benefits realisation
- Establish and manage projects using relevant and appropriate professional project management disciplines, including definition of the future state, delivery tranches and project governance across multiple customers and suppliers
- Flexible in using Agile and Waterfall approaches, as appropriate to the project
- Monitor, control and manage allocated resources including people (a mix of employees, clients, contractors and 3rd parties), budget and infrastructure
- Coach, mentor and support the learning and development of project managers and junior project managers within the team
- Lead the project team(s) to deliver high quality outputs according to the defined plan(s) to meet stakeholder expectations, encouraging pro-active and self-managed actions to achieve tasks and deliverables
- Work with senior stakeholders from clients and delivery partners to define and manage expectations and facilitate issue resolution
- Deliver feedback on project team members for performance management
- Provide direct line management support to a small number of project managers and junior project managers, ensuring projects are covered during leave periods
- Promote a customer-focused, team-based culture and proactively endorse an environment that strives for continuous improvement and delivers consistently high performance
- Interface with the Head of Portfolio to ensure there is alignment between your projects and the overarching business roadmap and linked projects within the portfolio
- Ensure that benefits and risks are tracked across the roadmap and transferred to the business at project close
- Provide regular reports and statistics as necessary for strategic governance and planning
- Contribute as a fully effective and respected member of the Business Change Directorate, representing the Business Change Directorate and the wider business at client forums

**Who are we looking for?**
- Knowledge of and experience of using Project Management frameworks, disciplines, and policies (e.g. Agile, PRINCE2 or PRINCE2 Agile)
- In-depth knowledge of people change management implications, techniques and practices
- Broad range of technical, business and commercial knowledge
- Good understanding of risk management, including methods and techniques for the assessment and management of risk
- Strong commercial acumen with a keen focus on financial management, value for money and procurement process
- Understanding of transition management
- Ability to define and manage relevant and fit for purpose governance controls
- Accomplished influencer with a good understanding of how to motivate and negotiate with individuals including project team members, clients, senior stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers
- Excellent leadership skills with a proven ability to build teams and lead them to deliver successfully
- Strong analytical skills and complex problem-solving abilities
- Demonstrable ability to deliver under pressure and to strict deadlines
- Proven experience of leading complex business change initiatives
- Self-motivated, organised, logical thinker, who is able to grasp technical concepts and make connections between complex deliverables
- Ability to exhibit a wider understanding of organisational systems and their evolutionary paths

**Sound Interesting?