Project Manager Permanent

Project Manager
£45k – £52k per annum
Work from home / London

We are seeking a Project Manager to join an excellent global organisation based in Central London. A successful candidate will provide Project Management to help support the development of key global systems. This will include the likes of customer-facing digital products, internal systems implementations, website development and business integrations. Our client is operating a hybrid model of 3 days work from home and 2 days in the office each week.
Key Skills:
*Experience of managing software development or systems implementation projects
*Knowledge of and experience using project management methodology: Prince2 or PMI or Agile
*Experience of managing testing
*Familiarity with MS Project, JIRA and Confluence
*Excellent stakeholder management skills
*Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
*Desirable but not required skills include:
oExperience in a web-related role in Academic or Professional Publishing
oGood working knowledge of XML
oUnderstanding of eCommerce website development
oExperience of business analysis techniques such as ETL and data modelling.

Responsibilities:
*Manage software / systems development or implementation projects
*Manage other projects as required
*Scope and manage the end-to-end delivery of new projects to time, scope and budget and within agreed quality parameters
*Apply project management principles to projects, e.g. Develop full scale project plans; create and maintain risk logs, issue logs and change request documentation; lead status meetings; provide status reports for projects etc
*Proactively manage tasks, ensuring resources are deployed and deadlines are met
*Ensure prompt escalation to senior management when project deliverables are at risk
*Manage stakeholders across the business to ensure effective requirements gathering and ongoing communication throughout the project lifecycle
*Own, manage and maintain key supplier relationships and act as a point of reference/ project planning advice for internal teams
*Support the Project Office with lessons learned, best practices, and standardised methodologies
*Project manage all elements of the software development lifecycle (e.g. requirements, development, testing, rollout) working with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
*Use Confluence for key project documents
*Establish, monitor and report on budgets, escalating to relevant project team members if appropriate
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