Job Description
My client within the healthcare sector are looking for an experienced Project Manager on an inital 6 month contract to undertake a hands of delivery role within their strategic & technical project
My client within the healthcare sector are looking for an experienced Project Manager on an inital 6 month contract to undertake a hands of delivery role within their strategic & technical project portfolio streams.
As Project Manager, you will liase with clients and provide guidance and support on overall operations, futureproof strategy and project delivery.
Responsibilities
1. Develop strategies and direct teams ensuring that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. Proactively aim to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
2. Take full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium scale projects with diverse scope. Facilitate scoping and business priority setting for complex changes, engaging senior stakeholders as required.
3. Scope of responsibility includes any and all phases of the project life cycle as well as project team management and possible budget administration.
4. Track resources and assure deliverables are met, negotiates effectively for key resources, and screens and selects team members.
5. Take responsibility for understanding client requirements seeking to fully address client needs, identifying, evaluating and recommending options, plus the establishment of a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.
6. Demonstrate use of a structured iterative methodologies, manages scope changes and communicates the impacts, and secures approval when needed.
7. Ensure that realistic project plans are maintained, ensuring regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use.
8. Develop project plans using standard project management tools, e.g., MS Project or Project Workbench.
9. Use metrics and project plans to assess the success of the project and make necessary changes.
10. Examine relationships between problems and issues. Probe and initiates research to identify critical problems. Review and cross-review reports.
11. Conduct knowledge transfer and project post-mortem for lessons learned and improving best practices.
12. Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting delivery of projects. Establish clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance.
13. Meet on-time and on-budget project goals and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
Qualifications
14. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
15. Prince 2 Certified
Desirable
16. Additional course or certification in Business Consulting
17. Certified functional consultant in any one specific domain
Skills
18. Excellent client-facing skills
19. People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
20. Team work and emotional intelligence
21. Good self-management - continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
22. Has an innovative approach - a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
23. High value on openness and transparency
Experience
24. Project Manager with 5+ years' experience within the Healthcare sector
25. Strong project governance processes
26. Capable of vendor management and C-Suite stakeholder management
27. Experience and knowledge in project management methodologies and awareness of new emerging technologies and developments
28. Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain comprehension. Practical experience and proficient with project management tools/frameworks required
29. Strong understanding of the project management life-cycle and experience with all stages of the product development life-cycle (concept to launch)
30. Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems
31. Experience in providing technical guidance to empower others, and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
32. Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
33. Knowledge of client/server architecture, object-oriented design/development and package implementation
34. Extensive experience using project management tools, tracking plans and actual statistics from inception through to implementation
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