Interim Project Manager (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

at  K3 Business Technologies

K3 is a leading global supplier of integrated business systems to retailers, manufacturers, and distributors. We have over 25 years’ experience of delivering award winning solutions for more than 3,000 customers across 20 countries. Our success is built upon world class software, tailored by our industry expertise, and delivered by our world class service. To learn more about our company, please visit www.nexsys.co.uk
Reporting to the Head of Customer Experience and Project Delivery, the Project Manager is responsible for managing the timely delivery of quality project implementations, resulting in a positive customer experience and a reference-able customer.
The Project Manager is expected to be able to deliver projects in accordance with the Syspro ‘IDEAL’ project methodology, which itself is based upon PRINCE 2 principles.
The Project Manager is the key point of contact with the customer and should maintain the suite of project documentation relating to each project, (such as project meetings, consultancy visits, development meetings etc.) and ensure it is available via the Syspro SharePoint site.
The Project Manager is responsible for enforcing agreed project governance and using good judgement identify where an issue needs to be escalated to the Senior Supplier for attention.

REQUIREMENTS

The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring all their diary bookings conform to the requirements of the NexSys diary system, to protect the commercial interests of NexSys, by ensuring that each booking has commercial coverage agreed in advance and scheduling consultants to customers to meet the expectations of the customer in context to the programme schedule.
The Project Manager will ensure they bill their time where appropriate and complete site delivery notes representing the work in a timely fashion.
The Project Manager will compile a monthly status report for each project which includes a budget reconciliation, highlights of the key risks and issues, an overall status, and a measure against the project timeline.
This will be presented to the Head of Customer Experience and Project Delivery during a monthly project team meeting where each project will be reviewed, and a RAG status allocated. They will then follow up on any actions arising from this meeting.
Skills/Experience/Qualifications:
Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent
Evidential Experience of managing and delivering successful programmes
Extensive experience as implementations project/programme manager, preferably in an ERP environment throughout full project lifecycle
Experience in managing multiple complex projects/programmes with varying objectives and milestones.
Experience of managing commercially and politically sensitive projects in a high governance or regulated industry background
Experienced in C-suite stakeholder management
Experience of working with technical and development teams
Thorough understanding of project/programme management techniques and methods.
Proficient in core project management technology (MS Project)
Good understanding of technology in our industry (SQL, Citrix, etc.)
Knowledge of core processes in ERP industry
Ability to understand and interpret customer requirements
Excellent communication with both stakeholders and senior management, including delivering difficult messages

Good commercial awareness

• Excellent organisational skills

Please refer the Job description for details