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IT Project Manager

icon building Company : Crawford
icon briefcase Job Type : Full Time
icon geo-alt United Kingdom

Job Description - IT Project Manager

Description

  • To manage complex and strategic IT projects for the UK business

  • Work closely with clients and stakeholders to effectively shape, mobilise and deliver project outcomes

  • Work with other IT functions and business customers to deliver an outstanding IT service to the Crawford business

  • Drive robust best practice processes and excellence in project delivery



Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with clients, Crawford business operations and IT to deliver complex changes

  • Utilise best practices in project management and agile project delivery

  • Ensure senior stakeholders have the right information to make informed decisions

  • Plan significant milestones across a number of workstreams ensuring relevant dependencies are identified and managed

  • Create and maintain roll out schedules and track progress, ensuring key stakeholders are kept up to date

  • Identify key risks and issues early, building an effective approach to mitigation, securing support of stakeholders where necessary

  • Coach others and help them understand the rationale for a technical approach

  • Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement

  • Manage client relationships and vendors in relation to project delivery

  • Work with stakeholders, functional areas and business analysts to develop business requirements

  • Manage project budgets

  • Work closely with the management team to produce accurate delivery estimates and prioritise workload in line with release schedules

  • Identify and resolve gaps in skills, processes, and resources



Qualifications

  • Demonstrates interpersonal skills required to successfully work in a team environment and communicate effectively across a variety of stakeholder groups

  • Ability to identify opportunities and transform them into quantifiable and achievable initiatives

  • Must be a dynamic and self-starting individual who is able to work independently or as part of a team with minimal guidance and direction

  • Must be able to continuously learn new skills to keep abreast of industry trends and new technologies

  • Must be able to effectively prioritize and assign work in order to meet deadlines

  • Must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users at all levels of the organisation

  • Project Management experience of IT projects including:

    • Application development

    • Systems integration and migration

    • IT infrastructure projects

    • Process change


  • Helpful

    • Knowledge of insurance, claims or other transactional business process and systems

    • Business architecture experience


  • Relevant professional qualifications beneficial (for example Agile Accreditation, PRINCE2 etc)

  • Traditional and agile methodologies

  • Project management best practices

  • Project planning and reporting

  • Vendor management

  • Internal and external stakeholder management and communications including clients

  • Confidence managing client-facing projects with a defined scope

  • Experience of agile and traditional project delivery methodologies

  • Ability to control and manage project management plans through the entire project life cycle

  • Ability to quickly understand client requirements and business objectives

  • Sufficient understanding of application and infrastructure technologies to work effectively with technical teams

  • Ability to understand and support in house systems and adapt to rapidly changing software.

  • Able to make pragmatic proposals that balance differing project requirements and constraints

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

  • Excellent presentation skills



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