Programme Manager


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Listed on

13th November 2015

Location

Milton Keynes

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Negotiable

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Negotiable

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Contract

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Programme Manager required to join our team based in Milton Keynes on a 6 Month contract. Strong experience of infrastructure and migration programmes. Excellent client facing skills and stakeholder management.

Job Title - Programme Manager

Location - Milton Keynes

Rate - £ 500 plus per day

Duration - 6 Months

Description:

Client focused, strong stakeholder management

Infrastructure experience

Migration experience

Gateway / ESB experience

Prince 2 / APMP / PMI / ITIL

* Exercises overall responsibility for the successful delivery of the project to plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards

* Manages the lead supplier in line with agreed contractual obligations, milestones and quality standards.

* Provides day to day direction to the project team and manages a budget of £4 - 10 million (pre-cap).

* Works with the Programme Manager to deliver effective communications and manages relationships with key stakeholders at executive and direct reports' levels across the Programme/Project Client base and technical community, ensuring continued buy-in to the Programme/Project

* Owns and drives the Programme/Project planning framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards, are integrated effectively across all work-streams, are unambiguous and achievable, and that dependencies are clearly understood and managed

* Owns and drives the effective governance of the Programme/Project, via the Programme/Project Management Office, ensuring that Bank technical, risk and other standards and compliance requirements are met and that the Programme/Project governance framework is comprehensively defined and firmly embedded across all areas of the Programme/Project

* Manages and co-ordinate projects, their interdependencies, associated risks and issues

* Controls the Programme/Project scope, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised

* Ensures the integrity of the Programme/Project - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the Programme/Project; and outwardly on its coherence with other technology and business initiatives. Includes identifying interfaces / alignment with other Programme/Projects, business as usual and specialist technical or service standards to the Programme Manager to ensure alignment.

* Ensures the Programme/Project resource plan is maintained and that appropriately skilled and experienced individuals are appointed in line with delivery plans.

* Actively manages supplier resource models and identifies issues to the Programme Manager for resolution

* Ensures delivery of the platform and service meets requirements and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan.

* Ensures that integrity is maintained by taking a best practice approach to development and implementation of Production change to support additional capability

* Ensures that all Programme/Project/Project status reporting is accurate, informative and timely, and directly provides progress reports to the Programme Manager and Programme/Project governance forums at agreed intervals

* Initiates extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the Programme/Project are identified or issues arise

* Provides an ongoing `health check' of the Programme/Project to confirm that delivery meets the Programme/Project's objectives and continues to make effective use of available funds and resources

Candidates should submit CVs in the first instance. Mike Tripp 0161 924 3631

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