Project Manager

Crewe, Hybrid

4-month initial contract (Until 27th September -Scope to extend)

£500 a day, outside IR35

My client is the world's leading manufacturer of luxury cars founded in 1919. Based in the UK the company employs more than 4000 people around the world, who design, engineer, hand-build and market their cars.

Our client is looking for 3 Project Manager's to plan, co-ordinate, and control the successful delivery of small to large Projects (potentially running in parallel and with different resources), utilising the our client's Delivery Framework and appropriate IT processes. They will also ensure that the allocated Projects are successfully executed and delivered to achieve the agreed business outcome, with appropriate monitoring and controls in place and that benefits stay aligned with agreed business outcomes and company strategy. As well as, building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business and with internal IT teams.

Key Deliverables:

• Plan and setup Projects using the appropriate and agreed governance and delivery methodology, ensuring alignment to the IT Delivery Framework
• Create and maintain financial and resource forecasts, onboarding resource as required, monitoring, and reporting on project expenditure throughout the project lifecycle and following the Bentley Purchasing processes.
• Maintain accurate Project plans during the project lifecycle, identifying internal and external project dependencies and preparing inclusive work breakdown structure (WBS) / stories
• Manage Project Risks and Issues and ensure that all risks/issues are owned, actioned and escalated as required.
• Manage all change that materially alters Project scope or plan, and ensure appropriate governance is in place.
• Support validation of technical solution designs to ensure they meet business needs.
• Build and maintain effective project communications for the lifecycle of the project ensuring stakeholder analysis and comms plans are completed accordingly.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven Project Management skills applied in work environment and knowledge of Programme Management principles.
• Experience of working within a structured project environment over the full delivery lifecycle.
• Evidence of successful delivery of strategic projects and working to time, cost, quality objectives
• Excellent influencing, negotiation, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the business and within IT.
• Able to effectively plan, organise and prioritise workload across multiple projects with different stakeholders and resource.
• Experienced and confident in report writing techniques and delivering presentations to senior managers.
• Logical, analytical mind set & good attention to detail.
• Excellent problem solving and ability to understand and interpret complex business issues and processes.
• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills
• Innovative and creative thinking
• Able to work independently or as part of a team.

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