Project Manager - London

Reporting to the Programme Manager this role is responsible for managing all aspects of the Project Lifecycle, maintaining good relationships with their customers and coordinate the necessary actions to ensure the successful delivery of all  change,  while keeping all stakeholders up to date through  well articulated  communication.

The Project Manager will be accountable for the project from the point of creating the Work Package Proposal and/or Statement of Work until the completion of ELS.

The location for this role will be a combination of Essex & London but also anticipated that a significant amount of time will be spent at customer locations.

This role is also not considered to be a typical "9 to 5" role and flexible working hours are expected.

Responsibilities include:

Manage multiple concurrent projects

Work to tight deadlines
Plan and manage workload against specified deadlines
Produce project documentation and work within defined methodologies
Organise testing and sign-off for output from the development team
Manage requests for change control during project lifecycles

Communication

Feedback within the department and across the business to provide visibility on project progress
Communicate across all departments to ensure project objectives are clearly understood
Provide detailed management information on all project work
Develop good working relationships with their customer contacts
Provide a liaison between their clients, their business  and  all third party suppliers
Communicate output to their customers and manage the sign-off and charging of projects
Regular team and exec reports  to demonstrate  project progress

Financial

Manage project change control and invoicing crosschecking
Stakeholder/Customer Management

Build strong relationships with customers
Work with the customer to understand their project management and project delivery methodologies

Continuous Improvement

Review and suggest improvements to business process on an ongoing basis
Construct documents to monitor and control the project according to a specific project management methodology

Essential:

Strong experience of managing Software projects
Demonstrable Stakeholder management skills
Good relationship building skills across the whole of the business. From analyst to board level, both internally and externally.
Traditional project methodology training (ideally Prince2 but will consider others, Six Sigma, etc.)
Excellent Negotiation and communication experience
A  structured / methodical  approach with the ability to deliver the  long term  strategy as well as the short term projects.
The ability to handle pressure well and to work autonomously

Desirable:

A background in Logistics / Shipping