Project Manager

Allegis Group is the fourth largest staffing company in the world and is headquartered in Baltimore, USA. It consists of several specialist operating companies that serve a wide variety of industries. Allegis Group works with clients across the world andincludes more than 12,000 employees in over 400 offices. There are many unique elements to the Company that enable us to differentiate ourselves from our competitors. Our experience and expertise mean we’re able to build solid relationships with clients whovalue our involvement in helping them solve their business challenges. The Company was established in 1983 and as well as being the largest privately-owned staffing company in the world, we consistently outperform our competitors and have a reputation of alwaysdelivering on our promises.

Allegis Group EMEA Region is focused on a range of brands which enable us to offer a broad selection of services and staffing solutions across different industries and is the fastest growing region within the Group. The EMEA Region has ambitious targets,and a well-defined business strategy is in place to ensure we are in the best possible position to drive growth across our chosen markets, achieve our targets and be successful. Our aim is to drive a multiple brand strategy to grow our market share and becomethe services and staffing company others aspire to be.

Across all our brands we foster a strong ethos of driving quality, embedding a positive and dynamic vision for our future, achieving outstanding levels of service as well as creating career opportunities for our people that contribute to our overall success.

**Role description** We are recruiting for a business Project Manager to work within our Project Management Office (PMO) team based in Bracknell. The PMO is responsible for project managing our most high profile and important business initiatives. It is a highly visible andimportant role, reporting into the Director of Risk & Assurance and working directly with members of the Corporate Services and Sales business’ leadership teams, supporting them in driving our business forward by successfully delivering business change. Therole is very much a hands-on project management role, focused on delivery of business solutions.

**Responsibilities** In this role you will be responsible for several business change projects with key duties including:

- Creating & maintaining project documentation: Plans, scope, schedules, risk/issue logs, budgets, assignment of roles & responsibilities and managing change requests
- Leading project working groups, facilitating workshops and following up on assigned actions with workstream leads
- Working closely with sponsors to identify and resolve any obstacles to project progress, effectively manage stakeholders and drive the project forward to ensure it hits agreed deadlines
- Provide clear reporting on project status, escalating promptly as required to ensure projects keep on track
- Supporting the sponsor in providing updates and communicating out to the wider business on project progress through the year

Experience and Knowledge required:

- 3+ years of project management experience
- Prince2, PMP, MSP, Agile
- Good understanding of Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Proven ability to manage competing deliverables on-time, on-budget, on-quality
- Experience of interacting with senior stakeholders, from across the business
- Experience with Project and Resource Management Software Tools
- Understanding of Agile Methodology
- Working with globally dispersed teams

Core skills:

- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Adept at building relationships
- High level of detail and process orientation
- Able to handle a fast-paced environment and reprioritise accordingly
- Strong MS office, in particular MS project
- Analytical skills and critical thinking
- Facilitation skills
- Remote Project Management
- Influencing people without direct authority
- Financial Acumen

Personal attributes:

- Confident and organised
- Committed and self-motivated/ proactive
- Able to work independently or as part of a team
- Ability to adapt to changes and ambiguity within the workplace.
- Goal and outcome focussed
- Professional
- Able to multitask