Senior Project Manager (Business Central Erp) - Contract Role

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively engaging the Project Sponsor throughout, understanding the business imperatives for each project.
• Working closely and collaboratively with colleagues within the commercial and finance teams, understanding the contractual terms and financial imperatives for each project.
• Ensuring that each project is managed in a contractually compliant manner throughout; similarly verifying that the client meets their obligations.
• Establishing effective project governance and controls in line with contracted and prescribed standards.
• Maintaining focus upon the critical path.
• Focus upon meeting or exceeding commitments regarding project success criteria.
• Ensuring that a clear and objective assessment of project performance is regularly reported in line with contracted and prescribed standards.
• Escalating where required in a timely and appropriate manner.

• Supporting client and subcontractor engagements within the context of a client engagement and stakeholder management structure.
• Engaging client and subcontractor stakeholders and peers, building positive relationships.
• Working creatively and positively on every project towards optimising client satisfaction.
• Being widely recognised as the “go to” person for each of their projects.
• Acting with integrity, engendering trust and confidence.
• Understanding client culture and values, adapting own and team engagement with the client.
• Understanding client business case, escalating contention between client objectives and contracted outcomes.
• Displaying and promoting our core values.

• Organising, and directing project teams.
• Setting and communicating clear goals and establishing priorities.
• Keeping the project team aware of the long-term objectives and focused upon the near-term deliverables.
• Maintaining an emphasis upon project success criteria.
• Challenging poor performance, seeking support where appropriate.
• Understands and conforms with prescribed business governance.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience delivering complex Business Central ERP implementations.
• Experience working with large enterprise organisations delivering business applications projects and understand the needs of these organisations
• Experience in managing projects to minimise pressure and tight deadlines, maintaining control throughout.
• Ability to work in a very faced paced organisation with challenging deadlines.
• Certification in Prince II, PMI, or equivalent project management methodology.

• Degree level qualification, preferably in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
• Project delivery experience to include the delivery of custom, enterprise-scale business applications using the Microsoft technology stack (Power Platform, Modern data platform) is preferable, although not essential.
• Experience of Solver, Jet Reports and Tasklet.
• Experience of project delivery in the government, higher education, or financial services sectors.
• Experience of Waterfall and agile development methodologies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Results focused; competitive drive and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work on own initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task within the role.
• Excellent business acumen with strong analytical ability.
• Good judgement and decision-making skills.

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