About the client
Our client are a growing international MS Dynamics 365 specialist IT consultancy. In particular, they support organisations to modernise their IT and business operations through intelligent automation and enterprise connection. In short, they pride themselves on the digital transformation journey's that they help their clients along. They are a Gold certified Microsoft Partner with offices in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Internally, they offer an academy to support employees development. They provide mentors to new starts as well as support to gain professional certification. They are keen to recruit Veterans into their growing Project Management team at all levels from junior to director level.
About the role
This is a field based role so you will be based from your home but will travel to client sites frequently to support them with the projects. You will have responsibility for the successful delivery of projects within your portfolio, ensuring:
- A quality delivery across all customer engagements
- Achievement of profitable services performance
- High customer satisfaction levels on implementation
- Achievement of key project objectives
- Motivation of individual members of the project delivery team
You will lead the planning and implementation of projects. This will include:
- defining project scope, risks, goals and deliverables
- defining project tasks and resource requirements
- developing full scale project plans
- Assembling and coordinating project staff, then providing the direction and support to the project team
- Managing the project budget and resource allocation
- Tracking project deliverables and issues using appropriate tools
- Quality assurance
- Monitoring and reporting on progress, problems and solutions of the projects to all stakeholders
- Implementing and managing project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Project evaluations and assessment of result
- Ensure client Project Methodology is full documented, used in all relevant pieces of work and understood and used by all those on the project
About you
It's essential that you have a Formal Project Management qualification (such as PMP, Prince2) as well as solid experience delivering complex, large-scale projects, to time and budget. Any additional experience in software implementation particularly with ERP Solutions and am understanding of ERP software implementation project life cycles and methodologies would be advantageous.
Our client are looking for someone who is commercially focused with keen budget awareness and who is brilliant in interacting with people from different backgrounds. You should also be an excellent problem solver and use critical thinking skills. Planning, organising and making effective decisions should coma naturally to you. Negotiating with and influencing others is another key skill as is leading a team and being able to delegate to ensure best use of resources available. You should be able to manage conflicts diplomatically, efficiently and effectively and have a flexible approach to your work.