Our client is a provider of various insurance products to over 170 countries worldwide. They are the world’s most experience protectors are committed to providing intelligent protection to their customers across the board. Due to expansion, they are seeking an infrastructure project manager who has recent experience working on large scale global projects, with budgets in the multi millions.
Key tasks & accountabilities:
• Supports the sponsor in the setup of the project or program
• Identifies, defines, combines, unifies, and coordinates the various project management processes and activities within the Project Management Framework
• Makes choices about resource allocation, makes trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives, and manages the interdependencies among the project management areas.
• Ensures that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
• Manages the timely completion of the project.
• Develops the business case; plans, estimates, budgets, finances, funds, manages, and controls costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
• Determines quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken and the project requirements, including product requirements, are met and validated.
• Organizes, manages, and leads the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
• Ensures timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.
• Communicates effectively through different mediums at all levels
• Conducts risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on a project to increase the likelihood and impact of positive events, and decrease the likelihood and impact of negative events in the project.
• If necessary, purchases or acquires products, services, or results needed from outside the project team.
• Identifies the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project. Understands and analyses their needs and expectations and their impact on the project, addresses issues as they occur, manages conflicting interests and develops appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution.
• Be responsible for business / operational readiness assessment and business approval to implement projects safely
• Acts with integrity, confidence & accountability, demonstrate sound business ethics and consistently adheres to and promotes these throughout the project life cycle.
• Coaches and develops lower-level project managers
• Contributes actively to the development of the project management profession for example, by sharing best practices, mentoring others in project, program, and change management.
Qualifications
• Masters degree (or equivalent)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Lean Yellow Belt certification or equivalent is desirable
• Must have experience working projects with multimillion budgets
• Recent exposure to IT infrastructure services projects with on a global scale
• Proven experience of working within a supplier lead service delivery model
• Proven experience of working in IT Infrastructure maintenance projects (technical refresh), SW upgrade project (Internet Explorer, MS Office).
• Ability to work in a highly process driven and outsourced work environment.
• Good influencing skills, demonstrable though all levels of the organisation.
• Well-developed team building and collaboration capabilities.
• Persuasive presentation skills
• Fully proficient in English, both oral and written.
• Structured Analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Sound knowledge of Productivity and Reporting toolsets (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio)
• 8 or more years of experience in managing projects, including 2 or more years on projects of a program, with a proven track record of delivery
If you are interested in applying for the infrastructure project manager, please contact Ian Donnelly on 016621000
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