Project Manager
Agency Reference Number: 7205510
Venn Group is currently working with a well-established leading academic Publisher who are looking for a Project Manager to join their team.
Rate: £560 per day – OUTSIDE IR35
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months
Job Responsibilities:
-
Identify all project stakeholders to ensure the project has all the necessary involvement at the appropriate levels of the business
-
Develop a comprehensive delivery plan
-
Work with SMEs to develop project schedules, identifying activities, estimating resources and corresponding timelines
-
Work with SMEs to estimate project costs and present business cases to appropriate governance committees for approval
-
Manage all project communication with internal and external stakeholders
-
Monetisation of platforms, looking at the end-to-end journey from sales customer journeys to products, order fulfilment, e-commerce and through to data flow into data engine and operating model implications
-
Be the escalation / resolution point for key projects
-
Manage the delivery of the project(s) in every aspect, overseeing quality, developing team members, RAID management and stakeholder expectations.
-
Perform change management ensuring new requirements are correctly analysed and validated
-
Continuously look at ways to improve delivery throughout project lifecycle
-
Maintain control over project costs and work alongside Finance Analyst to maintain the cost forecast
-
Drive collaboration between various functional teams across the business to ensure key milestones are adhered too
-
Participate and where necessary run steering boards and project meetings at a senior level
The successful candidate will have:
-
A recognised Project Management qualification (Prince2, Agile, APM etc) or solid experience in Project Management
-
Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to apply project management tools in a practical and pragmatic manner
-
Experience working with multiple stakeholders across all levels of an organisation, including exec sponsor
-
Experience working on global projects with dispersed teams operating across numerous time zones
-
Event or Media experience preferred
-
Digital transformation experience preferred, with the ability to work across multiple platforms from CMS to CRM, Datawarehouse and Marketing automation platforms
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.