IT Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile/£500 Inside IR35/Hybrid

IT Project Manager/Scrum Master
Location: Hybrid (mostly remote)/Occasional travel to Spalding
Contract Type: Initial 6 months - Extension Likely
Day Rate: £500 per day - Inside IR35

My client is looking for an experienced project manager to help Group IT deliver its change objectives, The right candidate will have full responsibility for the delivery of up to 15 projects within a particular programme, focused on the development and implementation of new innovative systems, applications and processes. You will be accountable for the definition, documentation, and successful delivery of projects of varying complexity - ensuring time, cost and quality parameters are agreed, monitored, and met.

The management of virtual project teams, financial budgets, risks and issues and stakeholder management - will be top of your agenda, therefore strong leadership skills with a positive, proactive, flexible approach and can-do attitude will be key.

Role Accountabilities

• Ensuring allocated projects are delivered to agreed timescales and cost, fit for purpose and successfully handed over to the support teams within agreed service levels.
• Leading virtual project teams and ensuring they are motivated, focussed on the right tasks, aware of their specific timescales and playing their part in the overall project.
• Maintaining knowledge of agreed Agile methodology and tools used within the department including Jira and Confluence, ensuring projects operate within agreed tolerances, processes, and SLA's.
• Tracking risks, issues, actions and budgets accurately during the life cycle of projects - escalating issues where appropriate to the project sponsor
• Ensuring all resources required for projects are proactively scheduled with the appropriate resource managers.
• Ensuring any third-party relationships required to deliver projects are managed effectively from both a commercial and delivery perspective.
• Creating all project documentation including mandates, project plans, highlight reports, closure and lessons learnt documents.
• Providing up-to-date and accurate project status information to the Project Sponsor, head of delivery assurance and other senior stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Complying with all IT policies and processes whilst seeking opportunities to improve the efficiency of both where applicable.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
  
• We have pre-booked interview slots with the clients so is you want to be considered please apply.