Job Application

Gibbs Hybrid are working alongside a world leading IT services contractor in their search for an experience Project Manager for a contract with a top UK financial services organisation. Ideally, they're looking for someone with backlog creation and estimation expertise.

Day rate: £400 per day (inside)
Location: Glasgow - 2 days per week onsite
Duration: Initial 6 month contract

Delivery and Key Accountabilities

You will be accountable for all aspects of successful delivery into the business. This includes:

* Product strategy and roadmap development
* Budget and resourcing development, and ongoing management therein
* Development and management against programme delivery roadmap
* Assuring a smooth and successful transition of new solutions into the business
* All aspects of change management (budget, cost, scope)
* Providing leadership around and compliance to all programme governance
* Management, quantification and mitigation of risks, issues and dependencies
* Quantifying and agreeing critical programme success factors, business outcomes and benefits
* Stakeholder management
* Leading problem solving, operating in an agile and dynamic fashion in order to reach point of solution and deployment
* Providing leadership and direction to the team, and your stakeholders
* Tracking and reporting of progress across the programme
* Champion project management skills and processes

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications/Preferred:

* Project management qualifications preferable
* Project management professional bodies such as APM or PMI certifications preferred
* Experience with proven track record of project management with
* Extensive and demonstrable expertise in supporting medium to large complex business and technical programmes of strategic significance
* Experience and strength in developing strategy to execution for complex programmes, with internal and external stakeholder management including senior leaders and change management for business users
* Impeccable analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, including experience presenting to senior level leadership
* Proven ability to multi-task, manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously, with attention to detail and quality of work in a high paced environment
* Able to co-ordinate, manage competing priorities against stringent and demanding timelines
* Ability to manage upwards and downwards, can negotiate and solicit engagement at all levels of the organisation, and have solid experience of working with senior stakeholders (typically D, MD level)

Interested? Please apply for immediate consideration from the Gibbs Hybrid team