Job Description
The role:
The programme is a core part of the firm's business plan to help drive performance , and will enable the firm to build and provide market leading business services. This includes making organisation changes (including processes and changes to service delivery) which allows the firm to be able to respond to the changing demands of clients, evolving technology and market efficiency drives, and embrace different ways of working.
Main responsibilities:
- Ensure all projects included in the workstream are clearly defined and documented
- Ensure adequate governance structure in place
- Ensure tangible/intangible benefits are documented and measured
- Ensure costs are in the overall programme budget
- Ensure inter-dependencies are understood and managed
- Manage delivery from design to implementation
- Ensure risks and issues are mitigated and managed
- Ensure status is reported weekly to the Programme Director and relevant risks and issues are escalated
- Substantive experience as a project manager with a proven track record of successfully managing and leading global operational projects through the full project life cycle
- Demonstrable experience of working on complex, large-scale business transformation
- Demonstrates understanding of key operational processes and systems relating to business development (sales and marketing)
- Background in global organisations and projects with multi-country implementation
- Able to bring clarity and prioritise in an operational environment with complex influencing factors
- Strong planner and with ability to spot tenuous links and dependencies
- Organised and able to prioritise diverse workload and meet deadlines
- Works within a structured project framework
- Use appropriate tools/logs to hold workstream team accountable to critical path
- Proficient in MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Project, MS-Visio & MS-PowerPoint
- Preferred, but not required - familiarity with some or all of the following:
- CRM Systems
- Bid automation systems
- The Quote to Cash to process and Intapp Open