Project Manager

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Project Manager

Locations:Bristol, Manchester or London

The role is a member of the Delivery team and supports the Head of Delivery by:

- Providing professional project management for one or more projects concurrently

- Being responsible for the successful delivery of projects as measured against project deliverables, timescale, commercial objectives and risk management.

- Following a standard approach to project governance, including the reporting on the progress of projects.

Main responsibilities and Accountabilities:

The scope of work for which the Project Manager is responsible, includes:

- Those ‘projects’ which are sufficiently large to warrant a named Programme and/or Project Manager(s) to be assigned.

- The scope excludes those Technical work packages which are managed through a portfolio reporting framework.

Within parameters set by the Technical Solutions Executive, the role will have the following accountabilities:

Strategy

- To be able to clearly articulate the objectives and business need for the project, understanding the broader strategic fit for the project.

- To make continuous improvement a priority, holding a solid grasp of project management principles, with experience in successfully advancing those principles.

Execution

- To lead and deliver projects, including:

- Developing estimates and plans to create a baseline against which the project will be measured or bids will be made;

- Proactively identifying and resolving issues which threaten successful delivery;

- Initiating, controlling and closing projects.

- Delivering projects within agreed budget, time and quality parameters;

- Demonstrating clear understanding of the business requirements for each project, making ongoing decisions based on what’s best for the organisation, challenging senior stakeholders on critical success factors if needed.

- Managing all commercial aspects of the project including effective change control of requirements, deadlines and effort.

- Managing resources in line with budgeted effort.

- Resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.

- Ensuring there is an adequate understanding of the business risks inherent in the projects.

- From time to time, supporting sales presentations to clients

Governance and control

- Establish and coordinate an effective Steering Group (or equivalent) to provide direction and support to resolve issues where necessary

- Monitor and report (progress, risks, budgets, issues) with sufficient clarity and timeliness to enable stakeholders (project, Technology Solutions and the Change Executive) to monitor progress;

- To establish systems and processes for planning, governance, reporting, communication, and budgets to ensure delivery to quality, time and cost requirements.

- To support the maintenance and promotion of the ‘small project management framework’ to enable other Profit Centres to manage those projects consistently and effectively.

Stakeholders

- To build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, particularly the Business and Executive Sponsors, both internal and external and across all areas of JLT.

- To work closely with the Client Delivery Managers to manage relationships with clients.

- To collaborate with and build relationships with MS IT teams or third party suppliers where these are part of delivery teams.

- To champion and facilitate cross functional colleagues/teams to work as ‘one JLT’.

- To offer proactive support to non-project management specialists with responsibilities for managing projects.

Experience and Education Requirements

Essential:

- Experience of successfully completing the entire project lifecycle, from inception to implementation.

- Ability to lead a cross functional, distributed team to deliver successfully

- Track record of delivering to time, quality and budget.

- Experience in client facing work.

- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to articulate complex messages with clarity and ease to all audiences and flex style as required.

- Prudent risk taker.

- Strong commercial awareness, including change management.

- Ability to work to strict deadlines.

- Ability to cope with high demand requirements of stakeholders.

- Logical, innovative, methodical, collaborative and thorough approach to work.

- Expertise in making high level decisions and implement operational plans.

- Collaborative team player who can influence outcomes as well as work independently. Known as being a team player and achieving for the group rather than individual.

Desirable:

- Lean Six Sigma methodologies (Green Belt standard)

- Experience of Agile development methodologies

- Financial services background

- Experience of Employee Benefits

Key Competencies

Technical:

- MS Office products (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

- Prince2 qualified (or equivalent)

- Planning, monitoring and controlling projects, including risk management.

- Financial control and budget management

- Operational management, process management and control