Interim Project Manager

at  iCoTech Services

COMPANY OVERVIEW

iCoTech is an established Microsoft Gold Partner based in Cardiff Bay. iCoTech specialising in building Project Portfolio Management Solutions, utilising the Microsoft Power Platform. With a great customer base including large organizations such as ONS, BEIS, IPO, DEFRA, Bettys and Taylors Group and ACAS. iCoTech is a very fast-paced, dynamic organization, running expert online events every month to share our knowledge with others.
You can find out more about iCoTech by visiting our website, or following us on LinkedIn or YouTube.
iCoTech is driven to improve the decisions made utilising technology across its key public sector client base, working with major public sector organizations, delivering business and technology transformational services.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Project Manager role at iCoTech is a key role within the organisation reporting directly to the Head of Delivery. This role is about ensuring the correct practices and governance is followed as per the delivery methodology. As a Project Manager at iCoTech you will be responsible for the delivery of projects across our portfolio of customers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Project Manager role is focused on the successful delivery of external revenue generating and internal non-revenue generating Projects across iCoTech. This includes managing all projects throughout the lifecycle, monitoring progress, managing scope, controlling change, successful delivery to agreed timelines.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Ensure the project process is followed with the appropriate assurance checks in place to guarantee deliverables delivered to the customer are fit for purpose and meet the required quality.
• Coordinate internal and external delivery resources, ensuring the resource demand is captured through centralised resource planning.
• Ensure time/costs is managed accordingly to budget against the subsequent deliverables and requirements of the project, including the setup and validation of timesheets.
• Producing and maintaining project plans in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate client stakeholders, providing regular contact on project status. Develop and maintain relationships with the development team and other stakeholders within iCoTech.
• Maintain each projects RAID and related documentation. Ensuring mitigations and escalations are managed effectively and in a timely manner.
• Establish project scope and ensure effective Change Management processes are followed to ensure changes are formally captured, impact assessed and reflected in the revised project baseline.
• Administration of the Portfolio including the setup and management of project data with the appropriate systems. Creation of maintenance of standards and processes to support delivery where appropriate.
• Coordinate all new work entering the pipeline of work to ensure it understood, estimated, planned and resourced.
• Coordinate activities to manage, escalate and closeout support and iteration tickets from customers.
• Sit on the Operational Management team within to support the running of the business.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Proven experience of having worked as a Project Manager within Information Technology, specifically experience working within software / application development lifecycle.
• Experience of running projects to deliver solutions using the Power Platform tools (Power Apps, Power BI, Dynamics) is a distinct advantage
• Excellent understanding of the need and approaches for business analysis. The ideal candidate may be able to undertake some elements of business analysis themselves.
• Must have experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with an understanding of the full project life cycle
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent, or hold a formal project management qualification e.g., PRINCE2 or similar
• The position would suit a candidate who has had exposure working in/with both large and small organisations, and across the public and private sector.