Technical Project Manager


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Recruiter

Recruitment Genius

Listed on

8th September 2015

Location

Edinburgh

Salary/Rate

£30000 - £30000

Type

Permanent

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A Technical Project Manager is required to join a successful live event ticketing software company, providing software, services and consultancy to festivals and venues around the world. They are the ticketing solution that drives the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (the largest arts festival in the world), the Garden of Unearthly Delights in Adelaide and the National Arts Festival of South Africa as well as other UK and international events.

They use a wide range of innovative technologies that provide the best solutions for event sales, data capture and distribution. This includes a number of unique capabilities that enable their clients to provide a high class service and an excellent customer experience.

The Technical Project Manager role is to work with the Head of Operations to manage a number of software and implementation projects. This role is varied and will expose the right candidate to both customer facing and internal projects.

Specific responsibilities of the post include:

- Project manage the whole lifecycle of software development and system implementation projects

- Manage multiple projects simultaneously (Software development, operational delivery and internal business process improvement)

- Coordinate operational staff

- Report frequently to project stakeholders and senior managers

- Maintain project management documentation and communications

- Excel at project planning

- Use task management software tools to track projects to enable positive intervention to achieve desired outcomes

Essential Skills:

- Experience working in an Agile development environment, specifically experience working in Scrum teams

- Experience managing both internal and external resources

- Experience of setting up and enforcing all project management processes such as risk management, change management, quality control

- Experience of managing budgets and schedules

- Ability to cope and adapt in a fast changing, client focused, high pressure environment

- Attention to detail

- Comfortable presenting in front of different audiences

- Comfortable leading project meetings

- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills.

- Organized, disciplined and hard working

- Ability to prioritise and adapt when there are competing pressures between projects

- Ability to work with geographically distributed teams

Preferred Additional Skills:

- Business analysis and process improvement skills

- Understanding of development approaches and technologies

- Familiar with software and issue tracking software

- Experience using JIRA and JIRA Agile tools

They will not accept calls from recruitment agencies.

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