Project Manager in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Job Title - Project Manager
Location - The Quadrant, Milton Keynes
Rates - Up to £461.34 Umbrella/Ltd or £405.29 PAYE day rate
In Scope of IR35
What you will do:
As Project Manager you will work pro-actively as part of a team of PMs reporting into a Programme Manager. Experience in large and complex programme delivery of a technical nature would be beneficial as this project focuses on technical infrastructure, business application migrations and decommissioning.
A large proportion of the role will involve contract and supplier management; major stakeholder and engagement management experience is essential coupled with the ability to articulate technical to business terms.
You will be competent in managing multiple suppliers, defining work packages and managing the current contractual terms whilst being involved with driving tenders for the procurement of new services.
Your experience will include:
Experience of the following would be an advantage:
- Application migrations
- Large scale application migrations and upgrades
- Application cloud migrations (to SAAS)
- IT/Business Transformation programmes
- Managing multiple work-streams at once
Specific skills:
- Service transition
- Collaboration
- Change Management
- Business Change
- Stakeholder management
- MS Project
What you'll get in return
Capita and our client understand what it is like to work as a contractor and we will do everything we can to make it a simple process for you - this includes dedicated on-boarding, extension teams and access to a web based timesheet portal giving you an ability to access and submit your timesheets wherever you are.
About our client
Our client is the largest rail infrastructure business in the country and is at the operational centre of the railway and playing a key role in a rapidly evolving industry. They are responsible for rebuilding Britain's railway infrastructure and are managing some of the biggest and most complex engineering programmes in Europe. Over the next five years they will be spending around £23 billion to maintain and upgrade every aspect of an infrastructure that comprises 21,000 miles of track, 2,500 stations, 9,000 level crossings, 40,000 bridges and tunnels, and signalling and power for the movement of 25,000 trains every day.
What we hope you will do next
Help us find out more about you by completing our short application process - Click apply now. You will then be directed to a Capita owned microsite that will assist you with your application. Once completed you will then be contacted by the relevant recruiter.
Our client welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or another irrelevant factor. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
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