Project Manager
Magma Ceramics
Total years of experience :13 years, 1 Months
•Experience in ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to customer’s expectations.
•Provides expertise on issues relate to tendering and acts as a focal point of contact during negotiation activities
•Demonstrable experience of Agile principles and working with Agile development teams by with a hybrid approach for customers who still need essential project artefacts.
•Working as part of a team of project and programme managers, specializing on a number of projects, ranging widely in scope.
•Experience in planning, organizing, and continually improving the commercialization process with focus on specific acquisition
•Defining resource requirements, understanding the business cases, monitoring, managing and driving progress, identifying and mitigating potential risks and providing appropriate management information and progress updates to line manager and project stakeholders.
•Ensuring best practice is followed and that all the associated programme/project processes are followed
•Owning Risk, Assumption, Issue, Dependency management, project milestones, change control and lessons learnt.
•Building working relationships with colleagues, customers and other stakeholders to ensure the success of each project.
•Making day to day projects decisions, in conjunction with management and subject matter experts
•Tracking costs and timescales, experience in budgeting
•Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
•Accountable for UAT and Early life care
•Implementing the appropriate commercial solution and managing the proposals preparation, cost estimating and contractual review
Supporting service teams, project managers and PMO teams to achieve project objectives across a wide range of client projects, programmes and portfolios
•Support client and internal PMOs and wider departments in the updating of key control documentation such as Risk & Issue Logs, Programme/Project Plans and progress reporting
•Support the setup of client PMOs and the implementation of governance and delivery processes
•RAID management and the application of RAG status and prompt escalation to resolve flagged issues
•Create, analyse and update current processes and produce new ones for various client projects
•Using a range of industry tools and techniques to assist in the project management process including a number of PPM tools, enterprise solutions and some bespoke tools and methodologies
•Ensuring the requirements and resources to carry out project tasks are forecasted and planned
•Building and maintaining relevant internal networks and controls to share knowledge and best practice and to build the profile and capability of PMO teams and change management communities.
•Review and assess the delivery and management of processes, policies and procedures to identify areas for improvement for all assigned client accounts and projects
•Engaging and coordinating with all 3rd party suppliers and contractors, as well as end clients and customers to facilitate information flow and achieve consistency in communication.
•Contribute to dashboard reporting and status updates in relation to project delivery achievements, progress updates and agreed KPIs and SLAs
•Working collaboratively within cross-functional teams to deliver against strategic plans and timelines
•Providing input to the stakeholder management and communication plans, working with communications workstreams to ensure plans are aligned and monitor the delivery of defined stakeholder activities.
•Resource and project finance administration including personal time recording for projects, project finance and budget reporting as well as supporting PMs in forecasting and budgeting
•Organising and supporting project & programme delivery forum, meetings and production of inputs and outputs for circulation to relevant management and stakeholder teams
Project admin, liaising and coordination support to delivery teams implementing a number of projects to improve customer experience and internal processes and functions
•Attending programme and project meetings to produce minutes, capture actions and decisions & document to manage actions in the Actions Register
•Provision of various support to the PMO Manager in the day to day running of the PMO function
•Works with PMs to enable them to apply pragmatic governance to projects, plan, monitor and control their individual projects and workstreams
•Collaborative working with Project Managers and programme colleagues to expose and handle lower level risks and issues, escalate these and flag for early mitigation
•Administration of the PMO support email accounts and online document repository of SharePoint including maintenance and secure storage of electronic and paper file copies of approved documentation.
•Resource Onboarding and Off-boarding including proactively working across multiple teams, locations and organisations to ensure resourcing needs are forecasted and fulfilled appropriately.
•Supporting the recruitment and on boarding process for new colleagues, joiner contractors, and arranging induction with both project and business teams
•Ownership of key documentation to manage information security, access and permissions, version control as well as updating live documents
•Owning programme SharePoint site and ensuring compliance, access and permissions control
•Maintaining existing departmental and Project Office policies and procedures, ensuring direction and achieving compliance and adherence
•Updating and improving project methodologies and models, agreed standards, processes and practices as well as ensuring these are well communicated and disseminated