Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Digital Technology Senior PM
Reporting to: Programme Manager
Duration: 51 weeks
Location: Leeds
Interview Process: 2 rounds

Job Description
Summary:
Digital Technology is a large software delivery department with over 30 squads building the functionality and capabilities that support ***.com and *** App in the UK & RoI. We work using agile methodologies within a complex technology environment, with multiple internal and external dependencies during our delivered.

The Senior Project Manager will be accountable for:
Job Responsibilities:
• Lead entire projects across the delivery lifecycle, along with the management of associated budgets (financial management) with significant spend.
• Lead teams effectively within a matrixed environment
• Adopt effective and inclusive people management and providing the right levels of feedback to senior leadership.
• Ensure there is planned and managed project delivery of digital technology-based initiatives.
• Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects.
• Develops, tracks and manages project budget, project plans, timelines and scope
• Make presentations to steering committees or project sponsors

Qualifications:
• Extensive Technical Project Management experience with the ability to communicate effectively, including producing status reports to both technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrate rock solid PM Experience, and technical knowledge, preferably working on digital projects / programmes and have experience in project management and delivery using agile (including agile at scale).
• Understanding of Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies management and experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a partnership mentality.
• Solid sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising development teams with the ability to co-ordinate resources across multiple projects within an IT function.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing rising talent in the Digital technology department.
• Experienced in working in an inclusive environment, understands and values diversity, and is comfortable working to promote these values, day to day.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible/ adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment and to manage competing priorities
• Proven ability to learn business processes quickly and to work well with business partners at different levels within the organization
• Strong ability to assess risk and apply management principles to technology

applications/products

and business functions
• Experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment has context menu