Senior Project Manager

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Location:

London, England, United Kingdom Category:
Information Technology Company:
Munich Re Responsibilities:
To run and manage multiple complex projects with a budget of approximately 1m - 3m and take responsibility got their delivery, using formal project management techniques.

Ensure the projects are delivered on time, meet the business & technical requirements and delivered within the agreed budget. Projects will be internally resourced but may require third parties to be managed as part of the overall delivery

Produce a Charter for each project based upon the agreed scope, define the budget, identify the resources, create the schedule, outline the approach and suggest the sequencing of work required to execute the project effectively

Drive the delivery of their projects with predictable consistency, efficiency and success, ensuring overall compliance with IT-internal requirements and smooth transition of the resulting solution into production

Managing vendor relationships and the effective utilization of resources on each project, minimising use of external onshore and offshore resources, and ensuring the timely onboarding and offboarding of those resources when tasks are completed

To establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders and act as the key point of contact for the project

Identify issues/risks, analyse options and manage impacts to mitigate project delays and take appropriate action to keep the project on track, leveraging support from key stakeholders and/or management as required

Manage, monitor and report progress against milestones and budgets, ensuring consistent and transparent communications are provided to Management and Executive Leadership Ensure all project costs (actuals) are actively tracked and managed, including SOWs/Purchase Orders, contracts, internal resource assignments, and ensure accurate forecasts and accruals are maintained in SAP and Clarity Coordinate the completion of all documentation, project plans, change requests, approvals, lifecycle steps and compliance gate requests in a timely manner to ensure the project continues to align with the agreed schedule

Knowledge and Skills At least 5 to 7 years+ of experience in successfully managing the delivering of IT infrastructure, workplace or application projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally in a global Finance/Insurance or regulated industry

Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation

Ability to lead and direct the project under a unified project lens without compromising business outcomes and priority constraints

Ability to work in complex organisation structures and tenaciously forge a path for delivery resulting in delivery

Excellent communication skills, strong experience in managing the diverging interests of various stakeholders

Proven ability to create meaningful reports and summarise project health status for stakeholder presentations

Proven ability to manage and track project costs and budgets to agreed baselines

Ability to drive a mixture of functional and geographic work streams and co-ordinate step change delivery to the business in a unified way Consulting and collaborative working style creating a culture of accountability and sharing A self-motivated individual able to work with varying organisational and geographic styles to the end goal of unifying and standardising the delivery culture and capability

Experience of developing less experienced PM’s, of setting an example of behaviours and standards and helping build high performing teams

Fluent spoken and written English If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with everything outlined, or you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the candidate we are looking for!