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Project Manager - WFH / Manchester - 12months - Rate £400/day Umbrella.
Key Words / Skills: Project Manager, Public Sector, Council, GANTT, APM, PRINCE2, ERP, MSP.

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Overview:
Wilde Recruitment Ltd are working along side a local consultancy and Manchester City Council in order to recruit a Project Manager to work on a LONG term 12 month contract. WFH / Manchester.
As a Project Manager your role will involve:

Project Management: Ability to develop detailed project schedules including the ability to develop and monitor project progress through the use of GANTT charts and other effective mechanisms. Ability to identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project. Experience of working on projects within a project environment and to a structured project methodology.
Strategic Thinking: Evidence of thinking cross-functionally and cross-organisationally, beyond one’s own professional areas of specialism is important as is the ability to conceptualise new, collaborative ways of achieving shared goals.
Planning and Organising: Ability to maintain focus and objectivity under various conditions and skill in managing and maintaining a multi-priority workload, progressing various ideas and plans concurrently.
Communication Skills: Well-developed influencing and persuasive skills and ability to offer a persuasive argument both with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve key project milestones whilst retaining a positive attitude. Proven ability in managing relationships with project stakeholders at all levels of seniority through effective communication.
Strategic Planning: The ability to turn strategic ideas and objectives into practical, well organised plans with a focus on results, standards and objectives on time to quality, within budget and to reprioritise, plan and organise own and others’ work effectively to ensure these are met.
People Management: Effective development, management and staff motivation, providing strong leadership and direction to the team. Proven ability to secure and direct resources to fulfil work requirements over a wide area of service.
Finance: Excellent financial planning skills to develop short, medium and long term financial plans with an ability to budget proactively with large, high-risk or volatile elements being identified and cross-referenced to operational activity.
Commissioning Skills: An awareness of the role of commissioning in effective and efficient service delivery.

Candidate:

Extensive public sector Project Management experience in Digital & ICT with a successful track record of project managing complex ICT projects including recent delivery of an ERP Finance & HR system ideally for a large UK local authority.
Experienced APM PRINCE 2 or equivalent practitioner and MSP practitioner. Previous experience of line management and developing an ERP project delivery team.
Experience of ERP supplier management and awareness of how the external market affects the business and service.
Domain expertise of Financial Management and HROD operations & business processes and experience of Change Management methodologies is also desirable.
A strong customer focus, recognising internal and external customers, establishing effective relationships.
Strong communication (verbal/written) and influencing skills, with an ability to manage internal and external relationships up to senior levels of management.
Experience of delivering projects via third parties.
To work flexibly as required to meet customer demand and service requirements.

To discuss this vacancy please contact: James Walker or Mike Kelly
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Wilde Recruitment Ltd operates as both an employment business and agency. If your application is for a position based in the UK or EU, under European Employment Law you MUST be eligible to live and work there.