Project Manager

Job title: Project Manager

Recruitment Partner: Noaman Hussain

Contract: Perm

Location: Nottingham

About the role

As Project Manager you will lead projects to deliver the agreed requirements, within timescale, cost and quality constraints within our InfoSec team. You will will manage large and complex projects and engage with senior level stakeholders to ensure successful completion.

Planning and Estimating

• Lead the planning for projects – including project plans, resource plans and financial forecasts
• Undertake resource planning for projects
• Oversee the production of estimates for projects and validate estimates provided by other portfolios, horizontals and third parties
• Ensure that estimates for projects cover all identified work and represent value for money for IT

Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects within timescale, cost and quality constraints
• Manage and record in the PPM tool, the progress against the plan, the actual and forecast costs, resource forecasts and budget in line with business objectives
• Ensure that projects meet the agreed business customer requirements
• Ensure projects follow the change control process for any changes to timescales, cost, requirements or design and that these are recorded

Process and quality

• Apply the IT project delivery methodology and processes, identifying issues and opportunities to promote continuous improvement of the delivery processes
• Understand and be able to apply both the IT Agile and Waterfall delivery framework and agree with stakeholders the most appropriate for the project
• Ensure projects comply with the IT governance framework

Finance, analysis and reporting

• Produce and maintain financial forecasts for projects by tracking project budgets, actuals, and invoices and accounting for the cause of any variances against forecasts
• Ensure that costs are only incurred against approved funds and that Internal Order authorised values are not exceeded at any point
• Ensure Purchase Orders and Internal Orders are closed promptly following the receipt of the final invoices / costs
• Produce an up-to-date and transparent project report to the agreed timescales and following PMO standards and guidelines. Ensure the status of the project is always understood and available to the Portfolio Manager, Senior Delivery Manager and PMO.

Business engagement and stakeholder management

• Build relationships with and gain the trust of the Senior Delivery Manager and team and senior business stakeholders working with the Technical Product Managers to ensure you understanding business priorities and benefits of the projects being delivered
• Develop and implement project communications plans to engage key stakeholders within and outside of IT to lead their sustained and active commitment to success

Lead, manage and develop people (including virtual teams)

• Lead virtual teams, drawing on resources from across IT, partners and third parties
• Ensure the project team has the appropriate resources, roles and skills to deliver without duplication
• Lead and motivate the project team, providing coaching and guidance

What you’ll need to have

• Experience managing the complete delivery of IT projects
• Experience of a relevant IT project delivery methodology and processes
• Experience leading a team
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

It would be great if you also have

• Experience managing projects with a team comprised of onshore and offshore resources
• Project management qualification, e.g. APMP, Prince2, MSP
• Experience delivering information security projects and programmes with a basic understanding of information security concepts

Our benefits

• Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by WBA and may not be accurate.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

We are a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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