Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager

Duration: Initial 6 month contract

Location: UK - Flexible hybrid working - You may be required to attend meetings in one of our clients locations as and when required.

Pay Rate: Negotiable

Our high-profile utilities client are in search for a Senior Project Manager, with experience in the delivery of a wide variety of project types! Are you an expert within the utilities field and looking to expand your portfolio with a fresh selection of projects?

Overview:

The successful candidate will manage, coordinate, and successfully deliver complex, multifaceted, large-scale, or high-risk projects/programmes, utilising agile/waterfall/hybrid methodologies, which all contribute to a single, interrelated set of outcomes and benefits for the business!

Key accountabilities include:

• Assume overall ownership of the project/programme plan, budget, and scope, taking accountability for delivery of the required business outcomes and benefits to time, cost, and quality requirements.
• Work with all areas of the business, including supporting functions, to develop a project vision, business case, scope, impact, budget, plan, and organisation to achieve the project vision and business outcomes and benefits.
• Establish and run effective project governance to drive decision making, identifying, and removing obstacles to progress, resolving any conflicting stakeholder issues, supported by comprehensive reporting.
• Manage the project risks, issues, and dependencies across the workstreams within the project and or programme and the wider CBS portfolio, devising mitigating actions where required.
• Ensure optimisation of the return on investment and consideration of all options and alternatives throughout the project lifecycle.
• Direct senior stakeholder communications, and change management activities, to ensure changes embed within the business organisation to drive benefit realisation in line with the business case.

Experience/ skills required:

• Proven experience in programme/ project management, delivery, governance, prioritisation, and assurance.
• Excellent people focus - Experience of developing effective working relationships at all levels across the business, partnered with strong business and change acumen.
• Experience within Energy/ Utilities Supply & Services industry.
• Experience with senior-level stakeholder management.
• Project management certifications and qualifications are beneficial.

Interested in utilising your capabilities to drive success with a well-known business?

APPLY NOW with an up-to-date CV evidencing the above for instant consideration!

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