Senior Project Manager


Main Duties

The successful candidate will work with a team of Business Analysts and C# .NET Developers on a variety of projects, seeing them through from concept to go-live implementation. The position will cover the full spectrum of project management including overall project planning, costing, the maintenance of risk & issue logs and the co-ordination of delivery teams.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Working alongside the Business Analyst and Client Consultants, the Project Manager is responsible for planning, communication and efficient execution of the project in accordance with agreed budgets, timescales, methodologies / process and quality targets.
  • Understand the requirements for a business application and ensure that the appropriate technical infrastructure is recommended.
  • Have a sound understanding of the current development tools within the company development strategy, and provide input into the estimating process for both development and project management.
  • Create and maintain the following:
    Project Plan; Change Request Register; Budgets; Risk Register; Team Structure Contact; List; Status Reports; Manage project members; Adhere to process & methodology
  • Implement best practices
  • Minimise solution complexity
  • Identify and resolve issues / risks
  • Liaise with customers and manage expectations
  • Liaise with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
  • Ensure high quality documentation reporting status and issues to the General Manager

Essential Skills:

  • Minimum 5 years experience with software implementation projects worth £over £1 mil.
  • Highly organised, excellent management and planning skills
  • Experience of estimates, proposals and pitches
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Good attention to detail, passionate about quality
  • Ability to lead both creative and technical teams
  • Excellent written and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Highly motivated, self starter
  • Proficient with MS Project
  • Proficient with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Technical skills:

  • Project Management qualification, e.g. PRINCE2 or APMG
  • User Centred Design
  • AGILE
  • SEO
  • Digital Marketing
  • Web Analytics tools
  • Experience of Microsoft SharePoint
  • Leisure travel industry experience preferred


Salary range: £50k - £70k Depending on experience

Benefits: Pension, private medical, Life assurance (4 x salary)

Hours: Fulltime 37.5 per wk

Location: Cwmbran – relocation package available

Applications

To apply for this position, please email your CV and a covering letter indicating why you are interested in joining Comtec to hr@comtec-group.com

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