Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager - Edinburgh - 6 Month Contract

Lorien's Public Sector client are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to join on a 6 month initial contract, inside IR35.

Assignment Description:

• Manage the project plan, risks and multidisciplinary project teams for the SAAS implementation project which includes activities to complete specifications, configuration and testing.
• Understand and manage interdependencies with other projects in the programme of change ensuring the impact of issues or changes are appropriately managed.
• Ensure wide stakeholders feel consulted through engagement such as input to co-design workshops and communications to steering groups, the Board or other Governance and stakeholders.
• Supporting the production of an early adopter and at scale delivery rollout and on-boarding plan that encourages and supports business change while course teams also face challenges of moving to new technology.

The successful candidate will have the following skills/knowledge:

• Significant experience as a project manager, delivering successful solutions in challenging business environments.
• Developing and managing project and programme plans, benefits, risks, issues and other related information.
• Experience of engaging and obtaining results from matrix project teams, stakeholders and senior colleagues to ensure projects deliver to agreed scope/quality, budgets and timelines.
• Experience of leading large scale digital transformation programmes and projects delivering both IT and business changes.
• Effective communication skills both oral and written, with the ability to collate and present information to others including formal boards/steering groups and senior colleagues
• Experience of using Project Management tools.

Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact as required.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.