Delivery Project Manager

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Multiple Locations: London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle (must be willing to be based at and travel to client sites throughout the UK)

We have roles available across the following Accenture career levelsdepending on skills and experience:

Associate: from £25,000

Analyst: from £26,000

Senior Analyst: from £30,000

Team Lead: from £37,000

Associate Manager: from £42,000

Closing date for applications is 31st August 2015. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Welcome to Accenture, one of the world's leading providers of management consultancy services. Are you ready to put yourself to the test on some of the biggest challenges in the business world? Do you want to work in an environment where the bar is raised every day and high performance is just the entry ticket? Think you're up to it?

Key features of the role

Successful applicants will be assigned to projects roles, across a wide variety of industry sectors, including financial services, high-technology and communications, utilities, government and retail. The role will involve spending a large proportion of time at client sites so flexibility with work location is essential.

What's in it for you?

If you are looking for a challenging IT career working in a vibrant environment with access to training, and expertise, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with the latest information security technologies and will have the opportunity to deepen existing and build specialist skills on the job. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with team mates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

As a Project Manager you will be project managing one or more Systems Development projects to realise maximum benefit for customers through planning, estimating, managing and delivering, (to time, budget, and quality) You will also be responsible for mitigating risks and resolving issues in a timely manner. You will manage the direction and scope for projects and be responsible for sustaining an environment that optimises individual and team contributions in order to create value for a customer.

Key Responsibilities:

- Identify client needs and develop the commercial proposal to meet their business requirements.

- Provide client teams with a single point of contact for project delivery.

- Utilise proven project management tools and processes to ensure project quality/control.

- Plan, estimate, manage and deliver to time and budget one or more projects within a program to

realize maximum benefit for a customer with minimized risk.

- Manage the direction, priorities, scope and plan for one or more projects, potentially including a

number of 3rd parties, to realise maximum benefit for a customer.

- Identify, analyse, mitigate and proactively respond to project, financial and operational risks; both

real and anticipated.

- Sustain an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work

collaboratively as a team to achieve project/team goals to realise value for a customer.

- Manage the tracking and reporting on key solution delivery metrics for one or more projects.

- Encourage professional development of individuals and apply sound measurement and feedback

techniques to manage and optimize individual and team contributions.

- Communicate project status effectively and appropriately to convey key messages and escalate

issues as appropriate.

- Manage the continuous review and improvement of software development processes to maximise

the quality of products and services.

- Recognise, support and capitalise on individual differences in work-styles, personalities, cultures

and values to maximise team performance and effectively achieve personal and team goals.

Special Considerations:

Mobility is essential and you will be required to travel to client sites throughout the UK for a

significant period of time.

Basic qualifications

Experience & Technical Skills Required:

Experience of managing system development projects and delivery.

Relevant commercial experience of managing technical/IT projects - ideally with exposure, but not limited, to Java and the deployment of customised J2EE applications. .NET, N-Tier or custom development applications would also be considered.

Experience of working within, or managing, Release and Configuration Management processes. Industrial tools experience, i.e., Rational ClearCase, PVCS or StarTeam etc., would be an advantage but, equally, manually managed processes would be considered.

Familiar with key project management processes and tools, ideally PMI/PMP or PRINCE 2.

Knowledge of software development methodology (e.g. Waterfall, Rational Rose modelling) would be an advantage but other modelling tools would be considered.

Strong analytical skills

Financial management - ideally with budgetary responsibility for over £1m

Team player

Strong oral and written communications skills

Strong client service skills

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With more than 290,000 people serving clients in over 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. http://www.accenture.com/home.asp.

Please also note that Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.