IT Project Manager

Company Profile: Established in 1978, NES Fircroft is an award-winning staffing specialist that supplies technical and engineering experts (“white collar”) to Oil and Gas, Power, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Chemical, Mining, Automotive and IT sectors worldwide on an international basis. We’re a highly experienced team of over 2000 professionals made up of recruitment consultants and support staff spanning 58 offices worldwide. We work with top candidates to ensure that we can offer a full range of staffing solutions to our clients, complemented by industry-leading support services.

Role Overview: The Project Manager will be working with internal and external stakeholders to manage several IT and business change projects to ensure that they are completed on time, within budget and to ensure that objectives are met.

Required Skills - Project Management:

• Manage IT projects through the full lifecycle from analysis and design through to production implementation
• Execution and delivery of IT projects using structured methods and approaches
• Agreement and documentation of business cases and project objectives
• Management of project resources
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
• Ensure that project objectives are clearly documented, understood, and achieved
• Using IT systems to keep track of project progress and develop detailed project plans
• Evaluating the success of projects against their benchmarking and sharing lessons or best practice with colleagues
• Report and escalate issues and progress to key stakeholders
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Develop good practice business cases and measure subsequent benefits realization
  • Problem solving and decision-making ability
  • Delivery focused and not easily distracted
  • Proven ability to work independently and with initiative to tight deadlines
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
  • High-level of creativity, adaptability and persistence to find the best solutions
  • The ability to plan, organize, schedule and co-ordinate multiple tasks to achieve objectives
  • Good influencing skills
    Desirable Criteria
  • Experience in a global organization
  • Business process improvement experience
  • Experience with project management and collaboration software tools e.g. Smartsheet
  • Excel and Visio
  • General IT background
  • General Knowledge of operational and support business processes in a recruitment company

• Required skills – Business Analysis: Definition and documentation of business and functional requirements
• Documentation of business processes and workflow analysis
• Act as interface between business functions and IT technical resource
• Develop knowledge of production systems and business processes

Person Specification & Behavioural competencies:

• Degree level educated.
• Project / Programme Management certification (Prince2, Agile, Waterfall etc.)
• 10+ years delivering IT and business change projects

Energetic, passionate and driven with a ‘can-do’ attitude