Programme Manager - Strategic Change programmes : Local Government/Public Sector : UK Wide

Package: £50-80,000, Car Pension & Private healthcare

A leading supplier of IT Consultancy & Software Services within the Public sector market require a require a Programme Manager Lead and manage large scale, complex or high risk programmes for their customer base and work with strategic customers and prospects, in a pre-sales capacity, to provide advice and guidance on implementing successful change programmes.
Responsibilities:

? Manage the programme?s budget on behalf of the programme director, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.
? Plan the programme and monitoring its overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
? Management and analysis of issues.
? Build, manage and motivate the Programme team.
? Ensure the delivery of new products or services from the projects is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan.
? Be responsible for the quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme.
? Manage third party contributions to the programme as appropriate.
? Communicate with all stakeholders.
? Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects.
? Manage the risks to the programme?s successful outcome.
? Report progress of the programme at regular intervals to the Programme Sponsor and the Programme director.

To be considered you must possess:
? A minimum of 5-8 years experience in Programme and Project Management using leading methodologies and processes
? Experience in managing multiple parties including Senior Project Managers and third party vendors on high profile and technologically innovative enterprise solutions
? The ability to manage large teams across multiple sites, including customer team members
? Prince 2 level training or equivalent
? MSP training or equivalent
? Knowledge and understanding of public sector market pressures
? Experience of keeping track of multiple, complex, time-phased activities and critical path management
? Understanding of budgetary control and resource allocation procedures
? Experience in the Local Government or public sector market

Key words ?programme management? , ?bpr?, ?bpi?, ?service transformation?, ?local government?

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