Salary: £50,000.00 We have a new role for an HR/Payroll Project Manager to work for a major business services company.
The role will be based in Basingstoke and requires a Senior Project Manager who will be responsible for the support and direction of other PM's within the team. The successful candidate will be able to multitask dealing with high level issues in a client facing environment. Please read on for more details.
Role Description
A key member of our transformation team with responsibility for the project management of significant HR and Payroll outsourcing projects in a local authority setting.
These projects have significant scope and value requiring oversight of a number of people, process and technology work streams. We expect our project managers to grasp the big picture, hold key relationships at a senior level both within the company and the Client organisation and in control of project organisation, progress against milestones and risk management.
This role sits within a dynamic organisation where experts in the field are brought together to fulfil the requirements of strategic outsourcing deals sitting within a programme management structure. Candidates must therefore be comfortable operating in a collegiate environment.
Key Accountabilities
Relationship management with key figures within the company and the Client
Responsibility for overall project management of the HR & Payroll project within a programme management framework
Management and ongoing ownership of the standard project management products (e.g. PID, Project Plan, Issues Register, Risk Register, Product Description & Work packages), ensuring that Project Office standards are met
Liaison with managers to forward plan and schedule resource
Effective management of 3rd parties, ensuring that work packages are clearly defined, accepted and managed through to conclusion.
Monitoring/policing of both company and client performance against agreed project plan with agreed stage sign-off points, including the early intervention and management/escalation of deviations.
Proactively identifying and mitigating potential risks to the quality, cost or timeliness of the project's deliverables and their components.
Identifying areas of deviation from the agreed specification and instigating change control procedures.
Representing the company in a professional manner in all dealings with the client during the lifetime of the project.
Owning and coordinating the communication process across 3rd parties, internal departments and the client.
Skills Required
Communications: being able to convey complex and difficult issues verbally and in written communications in a proactive and assertive manner
Goal sharing: communicating the project's short and long term goals, and the context in which they are to be achieved.
Commercial awareness and proactivity: ability to spot both new opportunities and consistently apply Change Control within the project and broader business.
Risk management: identifying and mitigating possible future adverse events. The ability to take an assertive approach to risk management with both colleagues and clients.
Objectivity: ability to identify and articulate the core issues that the project faces during its lifetime
Strategic and tactical awareness: ability to view the potential long term impacts of an action as well being able to establish the detailed events needed to complete the action
Leadership and team management: providing the project team with clear direction and focus in order to achieve the project's goal and motivate the team.
Influencing and negotiation: the ability to influence and persuade senior colleagues and client representatives to demonstrate behaviours that are helpful to delivering a successful result.
Personal Attributes
Strong project and client relationship management skills.
Lateral thinker with the ability to analyse and solve problems.
A target driven, adaptable, motivated individual used to working in a fast changing, commercially focused environment.
Strong organisational and planning skills.
Ability to demonstrate a strong commercial outlook and sound business acumen.
Broad, substantial experience of system implementations.
Ability to work under pressure, prioritising effectively to meet demanding deadlines. Must have a flexible approach to working hours.
Flexible to move around UK to attend various business meetings.
Enthusiastic, pro-active, focused and direct.
Practices and Tools
Proportionate use of the Prince2 standard & methods (product based approach).
MS Project as the standard for project plans.
A project office approach to templates and other project resources.
Formalised project resource booking and scheduling.
Use of MS Office suite of products.
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