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About the Role

This role is offered on a 6-month fixed term contract basis, with hybrid working from our office in Embassy Gardens, London (approx. 2 days per week). Reporting to the Head of Strategic Projects, you’ll be responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span one or more business departments. The Project Manager will manage resources, schedules and financials whilst adhering to stage gate quality guidelines throughout the full project lifecycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to a project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to implementation/hypercare for one or more project initiatives simultaneously.
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases.
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives.
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chair the project management team meetings.
Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
Participate in feasibility studies, vendor selection and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
Review various vendor statement of works (SOWs) and Specifications for requested goods and services.
Set and continually manage project expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders.
Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders.
Manage project issues and risks to mitigate impact.
Continue professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices.
Maintain and develop a good understanding of project management principles, methods and technique.

Requirements

Previous project management experience with a track record of managing plans from creation to execution.
Experience of managing file management or document management projects involving user data migration.
Confident leading delivery across business and technical teams, managing dependencies and supporting the adoption of new ways of working.
Experience of managing technology projects involving system integrations and SAP development.
Confident leading delivery across technical teams, managing dependencies and working with specialist SMEs and suppliers.
Experience with the Microsoft Office digital suite, including but not limited to Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, One Note etc.
Strong organisational skills, proactive and comfortable working in a dynamic project delivery environment.
Good Knowledge of Waterfall/Agile project management, frameworks, methodologies and associated governance structures - including, but not limited to Prince2 and Scrum.
Ability to present and explain technical information to non-technical audiences, establishing rapport.
Awareness of IT frameworks such as ITILv3 and the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control testing and deployment management.
Proficient in MS Project or experienced in using a PPM Tool with planning capabilities.
Experience of working with SAP, enterprise system integrations and file management platforms (e.g. Box, Microsoft 365/SharePoint, Nasuni) would be advantageous but is not essential.
Experience of using JIRA, Confluence and ChatGPT.
Experience within creative, publishing, media industries is beneficial but not essential.

Skills

Project Management
Microsoft Office Suite
Waterfall
Agile
Prince2
Scrum
ITILv3
MS Project
PPM Tool
SAP
JIRA
Confluence
ChatGPT

Location

Embassy Gardens, London

Work Type

6-month fixed term contract
Hybrid working

Experience Level

Previous project management experience

Salary/Compensations

£65,000-£70,000

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

About the Company

The Strategic Projects team is a key part of Penguin Random House Operations (which also includes Technology, Facilities and Distribution). We help Penguin Random House achieve transformational change, delivering initiatives based on our strategic priorities, and supporting essential replacements to core processes and systems as they become end-of-life. We support changes from initial Conversations and Prioritisations through to implementation, engaging with departments across PRH and DK to help changes take place and embed.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.