Simplex Services
Senior Information Technology Program Manager
Sheffield
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Role Overview
Provide direct oversight of the programme(s) / project(s), financial and outcome accountability, reporting to a Portfolio Manager within CTO.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within IT, Global Businesses, Finance.
- Work closely with their respective Portfolio Manager and their senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of their project/programme with the wider change portfolio and group strategy, values and behaviour.
- Provide board level overview of progress, lead and direct multidisciplinary teams across all global businesses, global functions and regions.
- Lead end to end execution and responsibility for all aspects of the project/programme, including definition, planning, execution and implementation, governance and control, financial, resource and change management.
- Provide financial analysis, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.
- Ensure adherence to financial processes and procedures at project/programme level, as set and communicated by Customer, regulators and CTO PPM Practice.
- Own the identification and escalation of any budgetary related risks, issues and opportunities to portfolio/function as appropriate.
- Have responsibility for effective handover of the project/programme into Business-as-Usual operations to support effective benefits realisation.
- Have responsibility for deploying the Business Transformation Frameworks and respective methodologies within their Programme/Project and instilling good programme/project disciplines within their project and wider team.
- Committed to deliver against Project Metrics and OKRs.
- Take ownership and responsibility of Project Delivery.
- Right Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement and Management.
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Role Details:
Job Title: Senior Programme Manager – Technology / Senior IT Programme Manager
Client: Wipro
Department: End User Services, CTO
Contract Duration: 6 months (high possibility of extension)
Work Mode: Hybrid (2–3 days per week in the Sheffield office)
Location: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom (Outside IR35)
Start Date: ASAP
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- 15+ years of experience in project and programme management.
- Excellent understanding and proven experience of Programme and Project Management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
- Ability to direct and influence people in a matrix orientated environment and establish working partnerships at [text cut off in source image].
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels across the Group.
- Change agent with proven ability of implementing large scale organizational, procedural, technology and people related change programmes.
- Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language to recognise the global remit of this role.
- Expert knowledge of managing and steering technical blockers for the project/programme.
- Strong financial analytical background and proven ability in financial/analytical reasoning, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.
- Experience of delivering large scale change programmes within a Technology organization, with Infrastructure experience.
- High level of drive and motivation to ensure delivery of a broad range of outputs simultaneously across Customer.
- Experience of leading and managing teams with proven track record of working with diverse, cross functional teams that are located regionally and worldwide.
- Experience of driving continuous improvement.
- Prior experience working in End User Services and Infrastructure Projects.
- Should have managed end to end project ~$5m.
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Technology exposure and infrastructure project experience
Optional / good to have
Area
Technologies / Tools
- Landing Zones
- Private and Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure and Ali)
- Collaboration
- Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and Zoom
- Hardware
- Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Lenovo
- Operations
- Aternity, SCOM, AppDynamics, Microsoft Intune
- Software Management
- Ansible, JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, Confluence
- Others
- ESX, vCenter, Citrix, VDI and VDA
Skillsets Required
- Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
- Setting Governance Structure
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Story Telling
- Engaging Stakeholder at the right level
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Decision Making
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Skills
Programme Management
Project Management
Waterfall
Agile
Financial Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Change Management
Infrastructure Projects
End User Services
Budgeting and Forecasting
Governance Structure
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Decision Making
Story Telling
Matrix Management