Project Manager - IT Job at Allen & Overy
Job description
Role purpose
The Project Manager has responsibility for the full lifecycle (defining, documenting and delivering) of projects with varying degrees of complexity, duration and budget. We are looking for the role to take ownership of projects. This entails driving the project forward to ensure momentum is maintained.
Role and Responsibilities
Business / IT Strategy
Business change analysis
Projects & Programs
Testing
Risk Management
Key requirements
Business Competencies
Knowledge
Expert knowledge of the IT investment evaluation process, including cost/benefit analysis, estimating IT cost/resources and financial management within an IT project context
Experience
The annualized base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $175,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on the overall qualifications of the individual applicant for the position and other job-related factors permitted by law.
Role purpose
The Project Manager has responsibility for the full lifecycle (defining, documenting and delivering) of projects with varying degrees of complexity, duration and budget. We are looking for the role to take ownership of projects. This entails driving the project forward to ensure momentum is maintained.
Role and Responsibilities
Business / IT Strategy
- Ensure robust business cases are developed in conjunction with the business, architects and Relationship Managers.
- Ensure that the right level of business support and signoff is obtained
- Establish and maintain good relationships with the business, Global IT and suppliers
Business change analysis
- Ensure the business case produced quantifies potential business benefits, with input provided by Business Analysts
- Work with Project Sponsors to ensure the benefits identified in business cases have been updated through the project lifecycle.
- Work with the business and the Program Lead to make ensure they have processes to track and measure business benefits that were identified in the business case post the implementation of the project.
Projects & Programs
- Takes responsibility for the definition, documentation and satisfactory completion of medium/large scale projects
- Takes ownership of the lifecycle and the quality of delivery of the project, focusing on the end-user usability and work efficiency.
- Implements, participates and manages effective governance as per A&O's project framework.
- Responsible for day-to-day delivery of the end-to-end IT and Business Change projects
- Provides effective leadership to the project team.
- Provide clarity of roles and responsibilities for all involved in the project lifecycle.
- Prepares realistic project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plans
- Ensure that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets and are signed off.
- Ensures that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded.
Testing
- Works with the Business and IT project team to define quality and test criteria for both functional and non-functional specifications.
- Facilitate the production of test plans and ensure appropriate resources are available for testing.
- Accountable for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) ensuring that acceptance criteria are defined by the business and that the delivered solution is signed off by the business.
Risk Management
- Conducts risk assessments, identifies mitigating actions and makes recommendations to the appropriate Project Governance bodies.
- Escalate any issues to the Program Manager or to the appropriate Project Governance bodies.
- Advises on the application of appropriate quality and/or environmental management techniques.
Key requirements
Business Competencies
- Proven project management experience with a strong track record of delivering medium to large projects on time
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Strong experience in leading, managing and motivating a medium to large sized team.
- Well-developed people management and organization skills
- Robust reporting skills, project planning skills and stakeholder management at all levels, particularly at senior levels
- Ability to work under pressure & successfully prioritize & make trade-offs on work & time.
- Well-developed commercial acumen and experience of vendor selection processes
Knowledge
Expert knowledge of the IT investment evaluation process, including cost/benefit analysis, estimating IT cost/resources and financial management within an IT project context
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies and the application development lifecycle.
- Knowledge and experience of project management methodologies
Experience
- Experience with Microsoft Project (or similar tools) to produce plans for programs of work and individual projects.
- Experience working within Rapid Application Development or Agile environments.
- Experience of risk management techniques; risk identification, analysis, estimation and mitigation
- Ideally the candidate should be able to demonstrate some of the following or equivalent:
- Degree qualified (desirable)
- Prince2 Certified Practitioner
- PMP - Project Management Professional (desirable)
The annualized base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $175,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on the overall qualifications of the individual applicant for the position and other job-related factors permitted by law.
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