Senior Digital Project Manager

Principal accountabilities

* Responsible for full lifecycle of project delivery from brief and requirements through contract, build to integration and support of operational readiness testing.
* Responsible for management of provision of systems delivery through commercial contracts with significant 3rd parties such as systems integration partners and building integrators
* Creates and executes work packages with 3rd party suppliers.
* Signs off key deliverables and stage gates and ensures projects are fit to move to the next stage of the lifecycle.
* Manages financial processes to order, accept and pay for services received.
* Ensures accurate financial project reporting.
* Supports creation of the project business case with robust delivery cost and time estimates.
* Represents IT Programme Delivery at relevant financial approval and project governance boards.
* Responsible for the delivery performance (time, cost, quality, risk, HSSE, integration and embedding) of IT projects and all ICT elements of capital projects.
* Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on overall progress and initiates corrective action, as appropriate, to ensure that project deliverables are produced on time and within budget.
* Manages exceptions, slippage and issues of priority, and initiates extra activities wherever gaps in the projects are identified.
* Escalates and resolves major issues hindering IT project elements in a timely manner.
* Responsible for successful handover to operations and support.
* Manages the relationships with multiple stakeholders such as IT Services, IT Strategy & Architecture, IT Relationship Management, and 3rd party suppliers.
* Ensures robust governance and change management processes are followed for all projects.
* Reports on progress and financial status.
* Confronts issues and resolve disputes to ensure progress and completion to time, quality and budget.