Role Name: Senior Project Manager
Reporting to: Head of IT
Job Overview
Jersey Water’s people strategy is focused around providing a great place to work. We achieve this by ensuring we have high calibre, happy and engaged employees who work in a safe environment and are supported to experience new challenges and fulfil their potential.
Our people are crucial to the success of Jersey Water and, as such, we invest heavily in activities that support employee engagement and wellbeing. Our generous benefits package is focused on good mental and physical health and our people’s feedback is the starting point in creating our People Strategy.
Jersey Water’s company values are incorporated into everything we do; from the way we interact with our colleagues and customers, through to Strategy setting and delivery. Our values are so important that our performance is measured equally between the role that we perform and the way that we do it (living and demonstrating our values). Team participation and feedback flows through each of Jersey Water’s initiatives, with many people getting involved in projects outside of their own departments. Cross team collaboration is at the heart of everything we do.
The role of the Senior Project Manager will develop the PMO function and framework to provide an efficient and flexible governance capability. Developing strong collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders are key. The Senior Project Manager will ensure reports on the performance of Programmes and Projects are clear and focused on delivery and risk management.
Employee Profile
You will also need to demonstrate the following attributes:
- Proven track record of delivery within a diverse range of technologies and business functions
- Strong experience of successfully delivering operational change/transformation projects and or programmes
- Ability to engage with all levels of leadership and teams within a multi-disciplinary organisation (for example Board, Directors, Laboratory Technicians, Engineers, Corporate Services)
- Experience of developing a PMO and reporting function
- Experience in using a variety of project methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and the ability to use bespoke delivery methods for small projects as well as large programmes
- Knowledge of DevOps delivery methods
- Experience in commissioning and managing the performance of delivery partners and consultants
- Skills in influencing, negotiation and resolution are essential
- Team and individual leadership and management skills and the ability to create cross functional teams focused on common objectives
- Have run multi-year programmes to meet long term business strategies
- Using LEAN techniques to deliver efficiencies and add value to business workstreams
What you do:
- Develop the PMO function and incrementally develop the reporting capabilities of the Company
- Enable the business to assess the value of projects against key objectives, resource capacity, programme objectives and alignment to the business plan and strategy
- Ensure all customer and stakeholder deliverables meet their objectives
- Ensure all projects are delivered within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time and that benefits are kept in focus
- Ensure handover from project delivery to business as usual is managed by effective training and knowledge transfer to the end users and IT support team
- Work closely with the business owners of the solution to create appropriately sized business cases and seek to reduce unnecessary governance
- Lead the identification and evaluation of risk, issues, opportunities, dependencies, and constraints, escalating where appropriate
- Support project teams to empower their decision making and encourage innovative solutions
- Contribute to published communications that highlight the various Project/Programme’s profile to stakeholders
- Work at both a tactical and strategic level to maintain focus on delivery
- Support Company objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
- Management and preparation of key stage reports and where appropriate support project leads in developing their reports
- Mobilise cross functional teams and Business Owners to take early action on risks and issues
How you do it (Company values):
- Take personal ownership for your personal and professional development, booking 1:1 meetings, performance reviews and focused five discussions. Fully preparing for each
- Constantly review the work that you do and the way that you do it, looking for opportunities to streamline processes
- Align your behaviour, actions and decision making with our values of We Care, We are ambitious and We work together at all times
- Act as a leader at all times, considering the impact of your actions on others
- Present a positive, can do attitude
- Support your Lead in successful delivery of departmental objectives and changes in policies and processes
- Challenge the status quo in a productive and positive manner
- Accept and give feedback readily, assuming positive intent
- Keep up to date with policies and procedures
- Put the needs of the company and our customers at the forefront of our minds
- To actively partake in inter departmental and wider company group initiatives to promote team working to ensure continuous improvement is demonstrated
- To understand and live the Company Values, being able to demonstrate alignment to them as part of the performance review process
Application Deadline: Monday 19th September