Start date: ASAP
Duration: 5 Months
Location: 2 days per week in Dublin office & 3 days per week working from home
Rate: €500 - €596 per day
Summary:
The project relates to the logical separation of the HRIS system Workday as part of a divestiture initiative.
As a Senior IT Project Manager (7-10 years of experience), you will manage the project to ensure delivery to defined scope, on time, within budget and to customer satisfaction. You are responsible for all phases of the Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC) namely planning, requirements definition, design, development, testing, deployment and transition to post-implementation support.
You will be the central point of contact for all project stakeholders including internal customers, business relationship managers, architects, suppliers, operations, and infrastructure teams.
You will report directly to a Programme Manager (Enterprise IT Services)
Skills:
- Deliver the project on-time, on-budget, to agreed quality with appropriate transparency of issues across vendors, business clients, and IT.
- Plan and assign work to project team and maintain oversight of progress and work execution.
- Track and manage project budgets.
- Work with the appropriate IT and business resources to make recommendations regarding project delivery and implementation approaches which minimise risk whilst meeting project timeline and cost objectives.
- Keep all stakeholders well informed of progress. Obtain sufficient information to make well-informed and substantiated decisions.
- Be at ease with establishing and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Implement and manage risk and issue controls, own and drive resolution of project issues via engagement of with ITEs, Enterprise Architecture, business, IT and supplier teams as necessary.
- Execute all processes and procedures necessary for managing and prioritizing project delivery and budgets, ensuring adherence to PMO methodology and governance guidelines.
- Assess and verify solution designs for scope, cost, timing, and milestone commitments.
- Operate as primary point of contact with vendors and colleagues for day-to-day interactions on solution delivery.
- Coordinate and/or support of systems retirements associated with solution implementation.
- Ensure compliance with release management and change management practices.
