Project Manager

6 Months

Milton Keynes

£350 – IR35

To take full accountability for the delivery to agreed timescales, budget and quality of project/s into one or more of the following Network Rail domains, Application Development or Enhancement, IT Infrastructure, Support for Business Process Change, Business Programme Level Management.

• Provide a professional, consistent and effective project management service to clients in accordance with Network Rail and Group Business Services governance processes and standards.
• Manage or work within a small team of required specialists in order to deliver projects in accordance with NRIM agreed technical standards and guidelines as described in the Service Development Lifecycle
• Proactively manage potential conflicts, e.g. between return on investment associated with the benefits case, and technical compliance, engaging specialist expertise as required.
• Build and maintain relationships with business representatives and stakeholders so that expectations are managed. Act as the primary point of contact for the project and work closely with the client to manage issues and concerns.
• Support Project Manager 1 in the process of project prioritisation, approval and initiation.
• Establish partnership assurance-styled relationships to drive efficiencies and effectiveness from the supplier contract, taking appropriate action to resolve issues and escalate as appropriate.
• Engage with Strategic Sourcing partners to achieve contracts and formal documents with the appropriate levels of risk and responsibility avoiding any duplication of supplier responsibility and protecting NR against supplier failure.
• Manage project finances, change control and progress reporting to GBS standards and provide all cost, contingency and project / programme details to the Sponsor to demonstrate traceability of costs to the project. Regularly update sponsors and stakeholders on the progress of the project with clear, appropriate, and timely communications.

Essential

• Experience of managing projects to a value of £1m with up to 10 team members.
• Experience in the creation and tracking of accurate project plans using tools such as Primavera or

Microsoft Project.

• Strong understanding and experience of project plan baselining and managing critical paths
• Knowledge and experience of applying one or more delivery lifecycles e.g. waterfall, RAD, JAD,

DSDM, Agile.

• Experience of project financial management.
• Ability to drive value from Suppliers.

Desirable

• Experience in managing the delivery of IT solutions via third party suppliers and some familiarity

with the contractual elements of supplier relationships.

• A formal Project Management qualification (e.g. APMP, PRINCE2, PMIP, Managing Successful Programmes).