Description
Project Manager
£500 daily rate – umbrella
6 month contract initially
Walsall / Remote with requirement to come to office as/when business requires (once, twice a month)
Our Public Sector Client is looking for a Project Manager with significant experience in leading and managing large-scale change/transformation projects within a Local Authority.
PURPOSE OF JOB:
The purpose of this job is to successfully deliver strategic Programmes of Business Change and to achieve the stated benefits realisation including any forecast efficiencies and savings. Working in collaboration and under the general direction of Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital.
- To provide project management level oversight and expertise to the Transformational Programme
- Represent the Programme Manager / Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital as required at various forums including project boards, CMT, workshops.
- To assist in the planning, commissioning, implementing, performance monitoring and evaluating transformational programmes and any delegated budgets
- onto assist in the management of risks to the programmes successful outcome
- To support the transformation programme in the successful design, solution and management of complex strategic Business Change Programmes requiring innovation and challenge and to be responsible for the ongoing benefit realisation including efficiencies and savings to the Council that align to customer needs and corporate priorities
- To be responsible to Programme Manager / Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital throughout the business change lifecycle and actively participate and contribute at key meetings.
- To have a thorough and robust knowledge to enable the delivery of complex Business Change projects via the application of Business Change methodologies to deliver efficiency savings at a strategic level that align to customer needs and corporate priorities.
To communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English
