Overview
Position Title: Project Manager
Company: BT Group
Location: Sheffield, UK
Job Description:
This is a key role within Transformation that is accountable for end to end delivery of significant and strategically important initiatives providing a consistent approach, improved transparency and clear accountability for outcomes whilst championing continuous improvement to our improve speed to market, quality and predictability of our delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Agree with individual stakeholders the appropriate prioritisation that optimises both project management and supplier resource
- Scope and mobilise estimating costs, timescales and resource requirements for successful completion of projects
- Support programme sponsors and product managers in building business case for projects/programmes and enabling delivery of business benefits
- Track project delivery to time and budget and report back on progress across all levels of Plusnet, managing any risks or issues through to resolution
Requirements:
- Stakeholder management both verbal and written to Leadership / Director level
- Broad knowledge of technology/ media/ telecoms sector and strong competitor awareness
- A proven history of successfully delivering complex projects across a business
- Prince Practitioner, Membership of APM, IPM
- Capability to cut through complexity to resolve escalated issues, anticipating problems to avoid issues
- Relevant industry experience of end to end delivery of complex projects/programmes within a consumer product environment
- Good influencing skills to manage and set expectations to stretching but realistic levels
- Experience of risk management and contingency planning – in depth knowledge of both contingency planning and mitigation
- Experience of budget control, benefits management and supplier management with excellent negotiation and contract management skills.
- Specific experience of delivering product, technology and organisational change projects
- Understanding of product development life cycle, product design and implementation
About BT Group
We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company.