Senior Program Manager

ZipRecruiter; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm seeks a Senior Technical Transformation Programme Manager with expertise in Active Directory. The role involves leading a multi-year transformation programme across global business, managing resources, and ensuring effective project delivery. Strong project management skills and financial literacy are crucial for this position. The job offers a daily rate of £600 - £750 and is hybrid, based in London/Nottingham.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of project and programme management competencies.
• Experience managing technical projects and programmes.
• Ability to influence and build productive relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects and workstreams according to agreed time, budget, and quality.
• Manage resources effectively to achieve project objectives.
• Provide ongoing assurance at project and programme level.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Active Directory

Change Management

Analytical Skills

Financial Literacy

Leadership

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

Job Description

Senior Technical Transformation Programme Manager (Active Directory) – Finance

Daily rate: £600 - £750 inside IR35

Duration: 6 months

Start: ASAP

Hybrid: London/Nottingham

My client is looking for a Senior Technical Programme Manager to join a multi year Transformation Programme which spans the whole of their Global Business. MUST have experience with Active Directory. To project manage key delivery workstream/s. To provide support and leadership to the PMO office at a programme level across multiple workstreams

Project and Programme Management:

• Delivery of projects & workstreams according to agreed time / budget / scope / quality / change control criteria.
• Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these workstreams and sub-projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve objectives.
• Ensuring the development of accurate plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.
• Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex projects, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.
• Conducting regular reviews of outcomes, both internally with delivery team and with clients / senior stakeholders during and after the delivery has been completed
• Acting as an escalation point, providing support and guidance to PMs across multiple workstreams

Operational

• Establish project and workstream assurance as a formal discipline
• Proactively identify issues through the use of standard assurance techniques; audits, plan reviews, etc. Provide suggested remedial plans as appropriate
• Ensure there is sufficient capability and capacity within the function to conduct assurance reviews
• Provide regular reports on project and workstream performance and overall portfolio health
• Provide confidence that projects and workstream will deliver to time, cost and quality
• Provide ongoing assurance at project and programme level

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding and application of Project and Programme Management competencies including stakeholder management, contracts, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
• Experience managing technical projects and programmes and ability to collaborate with technical SMEs and delivery teams
• Strong understanding and application of change management competencies
• Effective leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills
• Strong ability to manage relationships whilst maintaining trusted relationship with team and peers
• Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the organization’s systems and processes
• Ability to apply analytical skills and conceptual thinking to both short term and long-term operations and systems planning over a wide range of technologies
• Financial literacy to forecast and manage workstream, project and departmental budgets, costs and revenue
• Ability to influence and build productive relationships with key stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Ability to advocate and instill cultural improvement, discipline and communications
• Ability to encourage innovation
• Ability to achieve improvements in delivery quality, staff motivation and role flexibility and can operate equally well at strategic or operational levels
• Proven ability defining and executing on the Project's purpose and direction in terms of vision, mission, values and objectives
• Project governance against improved project delivery lifecycle processes and escalated risk mitigation and issue resolution
• Ability to identify and manage resource requirements
• Excellent knowledge of project management methodology and tools, including software
• Excellent knowledge of computer systems and processes and PC desktop applications
• Strong knowledge of business unit products and operations
• Strong knowledge of legislation and regulations impacting business unit industry
• Advanced oral and written communication skills

Desirable (not essential):

• Knowledge & Experience of Active Directory