IT Project Manager

Hogan Lovells; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global law firm is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to oversee global technology projects. The role involves managing resources, delivering projects within agreed timelines, and ensuring quality standards. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years of IT project management experience, preferably in a legal setting, and strong communication skills. This position offers hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full end-to-end IT project management experience.
• Experience in a law firm or professional service environment preferred.
• Experience with project budgeting and management.
• Experience with risk and issue management.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple ongoing projects to achieve business goals.
• Coordinate and prioritize resources across business and technology areas.
• Deliver projects on time and budget following Hogan Lovells governance.

Skills

IT project management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Certification in Prince2 and/or PMP

Job description

Job Title

IT Project Manager

Department

Information Technology

Office Location

London

Reports To

IT Programme Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office,please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

The Information Technology department is responsible for the implementation, provision and support of all Information and Technology services within the firm. The department is a business team function that supports and contributes to the objectives of the legal practice. Members of this department are expected to fit into the firm's culture and be committed to providing a high quality of service to our customers.

Role Overview

The IT Project Manager is responsible for delivering global technology projects within the Information Technology department. They will manage projects throughout all phases of the life cycle ensuring projects meet the business objectives and requirements of stakeholders, are delivered on time and on budget, and meet or exceed expectations for quality and ease of adoption.

The IT Project Manager will be responsible for managing resources and vendors in a matrixed environment, ensuring proper resource allocation to complete projects on time and within budget.

This individual will have frequent communications with all stakeholders, including vendors and end-users to ensure awareness of project status and progress.

Key Responsibilities/ Accountabilities

• Manage multiple, ongoing, and potentially interrelated projects to achieve business goals.
• Coordinate and prioritise resources across business and technology areas.
• Organise and manage scope, quality and timeline from project inception to completion.
• Deliver assigned projects on time and on budget while following the Hogan Lovells IT Project Framework and governance standards.
• Be responsible for maintaining frequent and direct communication with stakeholders, developing scope and estimates, monitoring and controlling projects, and resolving impediments effectively and efficiently.
• Work closely with other IT resources and resource managers, business stakeholders, support functions and Project Managers to ensure effective resource planning.
• Act as the key project contact for the many internal and external customers within Hogan Lovells.
• Adapt project methodologies and approaches as required; While primary focus will be on legal practice and business services applications, examples of projects include software application implementations, infrastructure build out and security updates.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• 6+ years of full end-to-end IT project management and delivery experience with waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience working in a law firm environment, or alternately a similar professional service or consulting culture is preferred.
• Experience with maintaining a detailed schedule of all assigned development and implementation projects and breaking tasks down into manageable work packages to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Experience with requirements gathering, analysis and mapping to technical solutions.
• Experience with risk and issue management.
• Experience with Request for Information / Proposal processes and contract negotiations is preferred.
• Experience with project budgeting and working effectively within project budgets.
• Experience managing project change control (scope, requirements).
• Experience creating, managing and delivering user communication strategies.
• Experience with the coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Commercial consulting / client facing experience.
• Certification in Prince2 and / or PMP preferred.

General Attributes

• Has successfully planned and delivered global IT projects.
• Has experience of working in a complex, fast moving and changing environment.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management and client facing abilities.
• Ability to motivate and maintain direct and indirect team interest and focus.
• Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.
• Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to both team members and stakeholders, verbally and in writing; translating effectively between technologists and legal and business services staff at all levels.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.