Systems Project Manager

Systems Project Manager - Hybrid - WFH - Cheshire - Management - WMS - Retail - ITIL - PRINCE2 - Multiple Projects - £55,000 + benefits

Concept Resourcing are working with an excellent, award-winning solutions provider who are experts in their field and pride themselves on delivering exceptional service. They are proud to continue to earn the trust of some of the largest and most dynamic businessesand are looking for a forward thinking Systems Project Manager with exceptional methodology to support multiple internal projects.
**Systems Project Manager**
**Hybrid / Manchester**
**Up to £55,000 + benefits package**
**Full Time, Permanent**

The Systems Project Manager is accountable for the day-to-day management and delivery of internal projects. The Project Manager's prime responsibility is to ensure all assigned projects deliver the required products and/or services, to the required standardof quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost utilising best practice Project Management controls and governance. You will be be working on replacing systems and will be a do-er who can ask the right questions to the right people.

In doing this the Systems Project Manager will have customer satisfaction at the heart of what they do and will play an active and vital role within the Division.

As the Systems Project Manager, your experience and background will include:

- High project complexity and/or critical business risk involving numerous internal business function stakeholders or numerous/critical external third parties.
- The full project lifecycle with the requisite control and assurance from Initiation to Transition into Operational Service.
- Capable of delivering multiple projects of equal importance in parallel to their respective plans, in a fast paced and dynamic environment whilst remaining in control.
- An ability to work effectively and influence all levels internally and externally, from other IT Professionals to Senior Leaders and Directors.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensure effective initiation of projects - collating/validating requirements and building the delivery plan. Producing a Project Initiation Document (PID).
- Manage the production of the required deliverables to time, quality and cost within the tolerances set for the project.
- Ensuring the delivery meets the technical quality and business assurance criteria set.
- Change Management - Understand, facilitate and manage the technical, physical, environmental and cultural change management needs of the project in conjunction with the wider technology and operational processes.
- Manage business and project risks, including the development of mitigation and contingency plans, maintenance of risk and issue logs with appropriate levels of meeting and escalation.
- Accountable for project financial control - monitor and manage project finance and processes. Ensuring consultant time spent is correctly entered and approved, and external expenditure is tracked and managed appropriately through the Procurement process -from order to installation (and billing)
- Build strong internal relationships with key stakeholders and commercial, delivery and operational functions.
- Understands and monitors measures related to the effectiveness and efficiency of project management. Prepare and communicate the lessons learned for each project managed, and update the central lessons learned log.
- Recommends and drives improvement actions in line with continuous improvement requirements.
- Play an active role in the PMO department and regularly make and implement suggestions for improvements related to the scope of the role, the team or the organisation.

Skills and Experience required for the Project Manager:

- Professional qualification (degree, equivalent or significant industry experience).
- Proven project management experience.
- Project Management certification - PRINCE2, Agile PM and MSP or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of ITIL.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills.
- Good working knowledge of a range of infrastructure and software services and products, particularly related to Dynamics 365 and WMS
- Ability to quickly assimilate knowledge from outside own area of expertise.
- Understands and contributes to the current position and future strategies for project management, methodology and approach.

Person Specification:

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with great attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise work to maintain required productivity levels
- Self-motivated, flexible in approach, enthusiastic team player
- Strong rapport and relationship building skills with customers
- Strong sense of responsibility and accountability, results driven
- Methodical in approach with sound analytical and problem-solving skills, and keen attention to detail
- Enjoys a challenge