Munich Re Automation Solutions
Senior Project Manager
London
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Responsibilities
- To run and manage multiple complex projects with a budget of approximately £1m - £3m and take responsibility for their delivery, using formal project management techniques.
- Ensure the projects are delivered on time, meet the business & technical requirements, and are delivered within the agreed budget. Projects will be internally resourced but may require third parties to be managed as part of the overall delivery.
- Produce a Charter for each project based upon the agreed scope, define the budget, identify the resources, create the schedule, outline the approach, and suggest the sequencing of work required to execute the project effectively.
- Drive the delivery of their projects with predictable consistency, efficiency, and success, ensuring overall compliance with IT-internal requirements and smooth transition of the resulting solution into production.
- Managing vendor relationships and the effective utilization of resources on each project, minimizing the use of external onshore and offshore resources, and ensuring the timely onboarding and offboarding of those resources when tasks are completed.
- To establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders and act as the key point of contact for the project.
- Identify issues/risks, analyze options, and manage impacts to mitigate project delays and take appropriate action to keep the project on track, leveraging support from key stakeholders and/or management as required.
- Manage, monitor, and report progress against milestones and budgets, ensuring consistent and transparent communications are provided to Management and Executive Leadership.
- Ensure all project costs (actuals) are actively tracked and managed, including SOWs/Purchase Orders, contracts, internal resource assignments, and ensure accurate forecasts and accruals are maintained in SAP and Clarity.
- Coordinate the completion of all documentation, project plans, change requests, approvals, lifecycle steps, and compliance gate requests in a timely manner to ensure the project continues to align with the agreed schedule.
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Knowledge And Skills
- At least 5 to 7 years+ of experience in successfully managing the delivering of IT infrastructure, workplace, or application projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally in a global Finance/Insurance or regulated industry.
- Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management, and facilitation.
- Ability to lead and direct the project under a unified project lens without compromising business outcomes and priority constraints.
- Ability to work in complex organization structures and tenaciously forge a path for delivery resulting in delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, strong experience in managing the diverging interests of various stakeholders.
- Proven ability to create meaningful reports and summarize project health status for stakeholder presentations.
- Proven ability to manage and track project costs and budgets to agreed baselines.
- Ability to drive a mixture of functional and geographic workstreams and coordinate step change delivery to the business in a unified way.
- Consulting and collaborative working style creating a culture of accountability and sharing.
- A self-motivated individual able to work with varying organizational and geographic styles to the end goal of unifying and standardizing the delivery culture and capability.
- Experience of developing less experienced PM’s, setting an example of behaviors and standards, and helping build high performing teams.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
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