Project Manager - (6 Month Contract)

Project Manager - (6 month contract)

Bournemouth

£300 - £350 per day

Our client is an award winning, dynamic and vibrant health insurance provider, with a ground-breaking vision for the future, where individuals are enabled to succeed and are rewarded and recognised for their contribution to our business.

Reporting directly to the Head of Project Management, they require a project manager to support a Senior Project Manager working on a multi work stream launch project.

The role will be working for a Senior PM and will take responsibility for one or more work streams as well as provide PMO support across the project.

The project manager will be responsible for the success of all their work streams and will feed into the overall delivery and cost control plan. Throughout the life cycle of each work stream, the manager will track project status and manage project teams to mitigate issues and risks.

You will define and create project plans for project, portfolio, product prioritisation and implementation. Provide PMO administrative support for the Senior Project Manager in updating logs, plans and key documents. Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value. Act as a partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria to build, leads, and coaches multiple project teams throughout project life cycles. Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the life cycle of projects and assess and resolves all high priority project risks as they are encountered, whilst ensuring all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company.

You will hold a minimum of three years PM experience managing various kinds of projects, with experience of working on project and portfolio management Tools (Visio, MS Project, Clarity, etc.) Previous proven experience in a PM role is essential.

There will be some travel between Stockport, Bournemouth and London office locations, often outside normal business hours.

You will experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best. We think work should be fun and sociable, and we want our people to get the most out of every day.

Their people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

You should be immediately available to start, or latest by 2nd Week in October 2014