Project Manager

We're looking for talented Project Managers with consultancy experience to join us at Expleo. You will working in a client facing role, to lead one of the workstreams relating to the development, testing and implementation of a standard solution for Order Management & Distribution (OMD). Each Project Manager will focus on a specific area: Integration, Development, and Data Migration. You will be accountable for the delivery of defined work packages to the client and provide effective management to teams and giving guidance to others and key business users.

The successful candidate will be adaptable, able to excel in multiple project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid. Our environment is fast-paced, dynamic, and innovative! 

• Leading multi-functional teams on projects, fostering team accountability and ensuring the delivery of high-quality value.
• Communicating effectively across all organizational levels and champion organizational change processes.
• Developing 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
• Taking full responsibility for the definition (including governance structure), objective setting, 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
• Scoping of duties includes all phases of the project life cycle as well as project team management and possible budget administration
• Tracking resources and assuring deliverables are met, negotiates effectively for key resources, and screens and selects Team Members
• Taking responsibility for understanding client requirements seeking to fully address client needs, identifying, evaluating, and recommending options, plus the establishment of a baseline on which delivery of a solution can commence
• Effectively communicate and manage project expectations to project sponsors, team members, and other external/internal key stakeholders through various mediums
• Ensuring that realistic project plans are maintained, ensuring regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use
• Developing project plans using standard project management tools, e.g., MS project or project workbench
• Using metrics and project plans to assess the success of the project and make necessary changes
• Analysing relationships between problems and issues. Probe and initiates research to identify critical problems. Review and cross-review reports
• Leading knowledge transfer and project post-mortem for lessons learned and improving best practices
• Identifying and managing issues impacting delivery of projects. Establish clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance
• Provision of regular reporting highlighting any relevant dependencies and risks to project sponsor/other relevant stakeholders
• Maintaining an awareness of potential interdependencies with other projects and their impact
• Adopting and applying appropriate technical and quality strategies and standards as directed by the PMO
• Coach our teams to embrace flexibility and foster innovation while balancing firm standards and practices.
• Engage and partner with stakeholders, internal teams, vendors, and dependent teams in a multifaceted environment for effective teamwork and project success.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field
• An additional course or certification in Business Consulting, Project management (waterfall, agile)
• Additional Technical Certifications: Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2

• Proven project management skills pertaining to the below frameworks:
  • Planning: Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives.
  • RAID Management: Identify, manage, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
  • Finance Management: Monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery.
  • Reporting: Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues.
  • Quality Management: Ensure all deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Excellent client-facing skills
• 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
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Knowledge of applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge.
• Proficient with project management tools, tracking plans and actual statistics from inception through to implementation
• Knowledge of client/server architecture, object-oriented design/development, and package implementation
• Co-ordination and planning skills - needs to be able to pull the "many strands together"
• Strong skills in relationship/stakeholder management with the ability to deliver concise, influential and targeted communication
• Proactive approach and prepared to “tackle issues”
• Applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solving problems
• Providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
• Specific experience in Integration (Mulesoft Anypoint), Development, or Data Migration is highly desirable.
• Ability to think strategically as well as being able to focus on the detail

• Experience of leading large scale transformation projects, involving business process and change, organization change, and multiple large-scale technology components
• Project management lifecycle and experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle (concept to launch)
• Experience working with technical teams, architecture, and 3rd party suppliers/providers.

• You'll also need to be flexible to travel to client sites across the UK as required, specifically Milton Keynes

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

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• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive