Role: BET Programme Manager
Location: North West
Salary: up to £55k + Car Allowance and Package
Permanent position
The role
Mason-James is currently recruiting for an experienced Programme Manager on behalf of a leading organisation based in the North West. The role offers a competitive salary, car allowance, package and fantastic working environment.
The role will be home based however there will be the occasional times office working will be required
Duties
- Working with the operational and support businesses to promote and ensure adherence to the PMO Governance processes and methodology.
- Engaging with Programme and Project Managers to promote consistency across the portfolio to enable standardise reporting.
- Supporting Transformation Managers and Project Sponsors to remove blockers and manage risk, issues and dependencies across the portfolio.
- Working with support teams to identify resource issues across the portfolio.
- Responsibility for the successful delivery of Projects and Programmes assigned to them, while ensuring they meet standards including clarity of budgets, scope and quality while meeting key delivery milestones.
- Support the Project Sponsor in creating Business Case's and complete the feasibility phase of new projects and programmes. Ensure submissions are off a high quality.
- Manage. Lead, coach, mentor, motivate and supervise the delivery team, contractors and suppliers and influence them to take positive action and accountability.
- Produce regular quality Programme reporting and ensuring they are of a high quality and meet the audience needs.
- Responsible for adherence to governance approach by the delivery teams including documentation, conducting post project reviews and other workshops as required.
- Manage and maintain Change Control process and ensure policy guidelines and rules are maintained.
- Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritise, and develop resources to support project delivery.
- Manage Project and Programme budgets, including actuals, forecast and capitalisation spend.
- Collate and manage risks, issues and dependencies on a Programme level.
- Maintain Lessons Learned and ensure actions are followed through to benefit realisation.
Skills
- Prince 2, MSP or other related Project Management qualifications required.
- Risks management and /or governance qualification would be advantageous.
- A minimum of five years' experience in the project management.
- Experience in Smartsheet or Microsoft Project required.
- Experience of delivering ERP and CRM systems, including Dynamics 365 and Salesforce.
- Azure DevOps and Agile delivery experience would be beneficial.
- Experience in managing budgets, actuals and providing forecasts.
- Can provide expert advice and has strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to plan and organise own workload, while working under pressure to strict deadlines, communicator, with the ability to tailor communication methods to a diverse audience.
- Good attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, and high-quality work.
- Adaptable and flexible approach to work.
- Self-motivated and drive for continuous improvement.
- Ability to be trusted when dealing with sensitive and confidential information.
- A change-champion who embraces change and are a natural "out of the box" thinker.
- Able to prioritise a multi-channel workload, through the allocation of work to your team, whilst identifying trends and constantly reviewing performance.
- A pragmatic approach to problem solving, combined with a solid understanding of root-cause analysis.
Please apply and we will be in touch with suitable candidates or contact Jennifer directly