Project Manager

Sagacity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management consultancy in Greater London seeks an experienced project manager to deliver projects efficiently. You will manage stakeholder communications, track project requirements, and ensure quality delivery. The ideal candidate has a strong focus on delivery and adaptability. This role offers opportunities to work on concurrent projects within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering projects to agreed time, cost, and quality.
• Ability to track requirements through delivery phases.
• Ensuring effective User Acceptance Testing approach.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the project to agreed time, cost, and quality standards.
• Manage and communicate with all project stakeholders.
• Produce project communication plans and deliver communications.

Skills

Project management expertise

Stakeholder communication

Flexibility

Team working

Adaptability

Job description

Working independently or as part of a programme team to provide project management expertise to deliver our products and services. You will be a flexible, self-motivated individual with experience of working on a number of concurrent projects.

• Deliver the project to agreed time, cost and quality standards
• Manage and communicate with all project stakeholders - client sponsors, client teams, third-party and internal teams
• Provide regular status updates and communications across the project team
• Co‑ordination of internal / external meetings and workshops including chairing project meetings
• Preparation of material and reporting in accordance with agreed programme governance
• Maintaining / updating / collating weekly project status reports and actions, issues and risk logs and contacting project team members appropriately
• Creation of and ongoing monitoring and management of the Project Plan
• Maintaining and monitoring resource schedules, flagging up any issues / conflicts
• Submitting the risk / issues log for review and escalating when required
• Attending meetings / workshops producing minutes and chasing up actions when required
• Management of deliverables on the project shared drive i.e. version control; deliverables tracking etc.
• Covering general administrative duties
• Supporting the Programme Manager in day‑to‑day activities required to deliver the project (if required)
• Coordinate the definition and documentation of any required Acceptance Criteria for the acceptance of solutions prior to go‑live
• Ensure that full impact assessment are carried out where required with the Delivery teams, within agreed timescales
• Act as an interface between the business and delivery teams, including technical teams
• Track requirements through the delivery phase and ensure delivery
• Provide assistance and support for the definition of the operational processes and procedures when required
• Assist the business to produce workarounds where requirements cannot be met fully
• Responsible for ensuring that any User Acceptance Testing approach is defined and agreed
• Support any User Acceptance Testing activity and act as the main interface between the business and technical teams
• Produce project communication plans and create and deliver communications in line with that plan

Principle Accountabilities

• Delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality
• Production and management of key project documents e.g. PID, AIRs etc.
• Creation and management of the Project Plan
• Maintenance of the Resource Schedule
• Preparation and publication of Weekly Progress Reports
• Documented Acceptance Criteria with input from all impacted business areas
• User Acceptance Test support when required

Personal Profile

• An exceptional focus on delivery
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly
• Ability to grasp new concepts
• Team working
• Flexibility