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Project Manager

  • Location:

    Dublin

  • Sector:

    Life Insurance

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    Negotiable

  • Contact:

    John McGuinness

  • Contact email:

    John.McGuinness@ojassociates.com

  • Job ref:

    Aerospace_1610362578

  • Published:

    ungefähr 3 Jahre her

  • Duration:

    12

  • Expiry date:

    2021-02-10

Project Manager

Oliver James is recruiting on behalf of a financial services client A project manager. This individual will sit within the strategic change division of the business. In addition to excelling in core project management, successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership skills and will ideally come from an IT (Development background)

Responsibilities
  • Drive the execution of projects while acting as the liaison between business teams and technology delivery teams; when working in a large program, collaborate with the program manager and among project managers to achieve overall program objectives.
  • Provide hands-on project management during all phases - Analysis, Design, Development, System, and End to End Testing, Implementation, and Post Implementation.
  • Report on project and software metrics including progress, defects, costs, resource utilization, risks, and issues.
  • Demonstrate leadership by consistently taking charge of challenges and leading the team towards resolution in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrates personal accountability, leads by example, and "owns" the project

Job Requirements
  • Experience in managing projects in an Agile environment; experience in managing projects using project management tools such as Rally and Jira.
  • Posses at least 8+ years of professional experience in project management working on large scale projects.
  • Ability to grasp complex technical concepts easily and be able to participate in high-level technical discussions.
  • Strong analytic skills and ability to make decisions based on metrics rather than just judgment.
  • Strong business analysis skills with the ability to synthesize business processes and lead functional discussions pertaining to the project with functional and business members.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, motivation, and facilitation skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems desirable.
  • Project Management Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, (Desirable)
  • strong financial governance.
  • Scrum Master cert desireable
  • Provide project leadership in order to implement initiatives into an operational status, following established release, change, and quality management principles.
  • Drive projects ensuring project objectives are within agreed quality, time and cost metrics.

Duties

  • Define project scope and required business outcomes, including defined deliverables, key interdependencies and resourcing requirements. If required on smaller projects, produce the business requirements, functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Write business cases for review and sign-off before project initiation. Produce and actively manage the relevant project artefacts as per the PMO framework and methodology.
  • Projects are to be delivered in a manner that conforms to relevant standards and guidelines (i.e. regulatory, architectural frameworks etc.).
  • Deliver projects that may span a number of areas including: application and infrastructure solutions, business optimisation projects, strategic implementation projects, operational projects and tactical projects.
  • Manage and drive all aspects of a project from initiation through to operational support within timeframe and budget expectations including business readiness.
  • Provide a single point of accountability as the principal interface for all matters affecting the project and its progress.
  • Develop project budgets, monitor and report progress against these to the PMO Manager
  • Actively manage the project against milestones and manage any change to the project scope, giving consideration to business outcomes.
  • Provide impact assessments for changes to timings and scope within the project and ensure that change requests are managed according to defined processes and standards

Additional Information

  • Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Create a team culture of openness, transparency, and interdependence.
  • Participate, lead, coach, and motivate a high-performance team (where applicable)
  • Live, and lead by example, the organizational values.
  • Manage vendors and vendor contracts to achieve deliverables and maintain a positive working relationship.
  • Ensure adherence to company policies and procedures. Strong sense of urgency, being able to work to tight deadlines and prioritise where necessary.
  • Ability to maintain control, professionalism and momentum in stressful situations. Strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and connections within the team, the business and external vendors and across the organization.
  • Successful experience in change management in a large or complex organisation with a particular emphasis on delivering enterprise software implementation projects in conjunction with Infrastructure delivery.
  • Sound knowledge of risk management principles and practices and ways of mitigating those risks to an acceptable level.

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