Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager

Broad Street
8 months ago
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£(Apply online only) per day. 12 month contract. Outside IR35.
Agile, Data, BI, Business Intelligence, Dashboard
Our client is a specialist business lines insurer based in the City of London, providers of insurance cover for small businesses, entrepreneurs, SMEs and retailers. Following on from a consolidation of Legacy data lakes and improvements to meet continued compliance with GDPR, the business now wishes to make better use of data and wishes to recruit a Project Manager to lead a series of Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Dashboard projects, accompanied by associated process changes and changes around ways of working, aimed at improving the use of data within the insurer, and improving decision making.
The incoming Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager will firstly need to understand what the As Is' arrangements are within the business, conducting a full discovery phase, prior to working with stakeholders, executives and staff to define the To Be' model for future data analytics and reporting.
Additionally, the Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager will need to assemble a project team, including data analysts, business analysts and architects to deliver the projects, the aim of which is to provide the senior leadership team with improved MIS and Business Intelligence.
The Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager will act as the main point of contact with senior stakeholders, ensure project delivery according to schedules, costs and quality objectives, manage 3rd party relationships and resources, manage the production of requirements, business cases and other documentation to maintain buy-in, and also chair project meetings and oversee project workshops.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Managing a portfolio of BI projects
  • Delivering a series of large scale end to end dashboard projects
  • Act as main POC/manage key stakeholders throughout
  • Ensure delivery to agreed business/Client objectives, requirements, schedules, costs and quality objectives.
  • Manage project deliverables and resources, ensuring timely and complete delivery by self, project team and 3rd party suppliers
  • Co-ordinating and contributing to the production of requirements, assessments, designs and supporting documentation
  • Support analysis and production of material for business cases for IT sponsored projects
  • Chairing project meetings and facilitating project workshops
    Key Requirements:
  • Experience working as a Project Manager working on enterprise level BI products and dashboards
  • Extensive dashboard development delivery experience as a Project Manager
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to positively influence and challenge supportively and effectively where appropriate
  • Experience of delivery with and managing 3rd party suppliers
  • Experience of managing cross-functional delivery teams
    Hunter Executive is acting as a Recruitment Consultancy in respect of this Project Manager/Programme Manager vacancy.
    We are an equal opportunities employer. We will normally aim to contact successful applicants within one week of application

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