Role description:
General Description
Defines a project and coordinates its implementation in line with organizational project management standards, policies, and principles. Responsible for meeting project objectives within quality, time, and budget targets, and for managing associated risks.
Typically requires specialist project management experience, relevant qualifications in industry-standard project management techniques, as well as an understanding of the project technical and business issues.
Role
Leads the development of the project proposal or plan to determine timeframe, budget, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and assignment of available resources to various phases of the project.
Defines the overall project governance and organization, the deliverable scope and the associated responsibilities.
Leads all aspects of the business, technical, organizational, management and financial aspects of the project.
Regularly reports project progress at all levels, including senior management and/or the sponsor/client.
Challenges, and if required may negotiate changes in project specification or scope with the project sponsor/client.
Coordinates a team of specialists to implement project tasks.
Acts as the interface and facilitator between the project sponsor/customer and the various IT services involved in the project
May negotiate and manage contracts with external suppliers with the support of specialized teams (e.g. Corporate Procurement)
May analyze requirements with the project sponsor/customer and with the support of the Enterprise Architect / Application Architects in order to evaluate the project feasibility within the scope of a pre-defined strategy.
Leads projects for which the unusual size, timeframe or complexity requires the ability to deal with changes and instability in the project management processes, strategy and frameworks
Is able to convincingly present the project and win consensus from the sponsor/client, possibly using the support of business or technical domain experts
Regularly Leads improvement initiatives.
Manages relationships with external suppliers at the project level.
Performance and achievements are subject to periodic review against targets.
Requires a good of business and technical understanding, gained over several infrastructure and application development projects, and the interpersonal
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