Project Manager

About Serco

Serco Group plc's roots go back to 1929, becoming Serco Limited in 1987 and in 1988 was listed on the London Stock Exchange. Now, Serco is a FTSE top 250 company managing over 500 contracts worldwide. Employing over 50,000 people, we operate internationally across four geographies: UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East and across five sectors: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services.

Position

• Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality
• Give proposals for project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems, follow up and organisation
• Guide the team in charge of project activities and review their deliverables
• Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings
• Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to agreed terms of reference
• Prepare and maintain project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plan, provide regular and accurate reports
• Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and take action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria
• Manage the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions to the project from project sponsors
• Provide effective leadership for the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and constantly developing their skills and experience

Your qualification

• The candidate should have at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Project management
• Good knowledge of project management standards and methodologies
• Usage of project management tools e.g. MS Project
• Good technical knowledge on the projects aspects
• Practical knowledge of reporting methods
• Ability to give presentations
• Ability to apply high quality standards to all tasks
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills
• Capability of working in an international/multi- cultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in a team, understanding the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions
• Leadership capability