Digital & Technology Project Manager

Digital & Technology Project Manager

£50,000 - £55,000 + benefits

Permanent

Full time (35 hours per week)

Wimbledon (hybrid and flexible working – twice per month in the office)

 

The role

As a Technical Project Manager, you will deliver technology projects to enable CIPD’s Digital transformation. You’ll be working closely with programme teams, project teams, BAU teams, and third-party partners to effectively deliver against the agreed scope, quality and timescales.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Managing Digital and Technology projects, working with internal project teams and partners to deliver to time, quality and budget. Projects will vary in nature and may include software development projects, implementation projects, or support.

• Working with D&T Product managers, Business Analysts, development teams, operations teams and business stakeholders, effectively translate user requirements and business cases into functional specifications and project plans using PRINCE2, Agile and Business Analysis approaches. This will require close collaboration with both internal stakeholders and external resources throughout project life cycles.

• Project managing efficiently both internal and external resources to successful delivery of the project, with the ability to bridge the gap between technology and business stakeholders. Effectively managing allocated project budgets.

• Providing effective project planning and excellent communication at all levels as a key to building successful customer relationships.

• Working within the established governance and ensure the output meets organisational standards. Ensuring the recording, analysis, and mitigation of project risks within the established governance framework.

• Consulting with key business stakeholders to elicit solution requirements and produce specifications that can be used to define project deliverables.

• Fostering creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables between the project, business stakeholders and technology partners.

What you’ll need to be successful

 

• Significant experience in project management in a digital environment and a PRINCE2 or PMI qualification
• Experience of implementing cloud-based SaaS solutions, with a high degree of experience implementing new integrations and testing these integrations fully end-to-end
• Experience of working with non-technical and technical stakeholders to gain an understanding of business problems, define solutions and design appropriate approaches to achieving quality project deliverable
• Good commercial awareness and business analysis experience alongside effective influencing and negotiating skills
• Experience of change management to fully embed new ways of working through digital delivery
• A customer-focused approach to delivery and sound experience implementing business systems and web technologies
• A sound understanding of the software development process and implementing customer facing digital services to a global customer
• Excellent leadership skills of both project resources and supporting business stakeholders
• Experience of software implementation projects, which include full exposure to the complete project lifecycle (including change control and risk management) and in the development and execution of effective stakeholder management plans
• Knowledge of these systems such as Microsoft operating systems/platforms, SQL databases, core business systems (Salesforce, NetSuite), systems integration (Informatica), business intelligence tools (MS Power BI), project management methodologies, digital experience platforms, e-commerce technologies and other web-based technologies.

About us

We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.

 If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click APPLY.  

    

CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual. The CIPD define diversity as the differences in colour, ethnicity, abilities, age, gender, beliefs, interests, socioeconomic status(class), marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, geographic, academic/professional backgrounds, opinions, backgrounds, thinking, experiences, and many other personal characteristics. There is a growing body of research that shows that diverse workforce can be beneficial for decision making, innovation and problem solving as people bring a diverse range of skills and lived experiences with them. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion and equality of outcomes in employment through recognising of how differences of age, disability, gender, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, ethnicity, colour, religion, or belief and other protected (by equalities law) and personal characteristics can advantage or disadvantage a person.

   

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.