Project Manager

Project Manager Contract Role, Dublin

My client based in Dublin is looking for an experienced project manager to join their team. The successful candidate will be accountable for planning, governing and implementing internal and external projects which support the NDA programme to deliver to KPIs to time, cost and quality metrics. Hyrbid working model 2-3 days a week onsite in Dublin ( non negotiable)
The Job:

• Accountable for delivering and shaping of your projects to enable the achievement of the project goals
• Planning and Oversight - you'll produce plans, logs, and schedules, and track these. You'll conduct kick-off meetings, supplier and customer checkpoint meetings, and highlight reviews, and produces reports, agendas, and notes for same. You'll facilitates technical and project workshops and lead on escalations to resolution
• Stakeholder Management - Set and manage to customer expectations, internally and externally through effective and timely governance, reporting and comms
• Team Management - You'll mobilise cross-functional project teams and manage them during the implementation by coordinating their activities and holding them to account for their technical deliverables. Also manage third party suppliers using flowed down metrics and clear roles and responsibilities
• Risk Management - You'll operate as a risk manager and apply risk analysis techniques. You'll produce exception and recovery plans and make effective use of the escalation mechanism.
• Change Management - You'll operate as a configuration or change manager and be able to implement and operate a configuration management policy and baseline.
• Financial Management - You'll gather estimates of effort for new work. You'll provide and assure actual and forecast information for financial reviews and project closure so that you'll keep the project on track financially and escalate variances as appropriate.

Have you:

• You'll have experience in customer facing project management ideally in the telecoms sector with a track record of commercial and/or technical achievement and profit improvement, revenue growth and cost reduction.
• You'll have the ability to deliver to tight times scales, innovate and 'think outside the box' to deliver products and solutions that meet customers stated requirements.
• You'll have exceptional communication, interpersonal and relationship management skills along with strong influencing skills.
• You'll have proven ability to manage virtual teams and foster collaborative team working across customers, internally and with third party suppliers
• You'll be able to provide clear evidence of managing customer and internal stakeholders to set and manage expectations together with effective communication skills at all levels
• You'll have a proven track record of delivering projects while managing requirements to avoid scope creep
• A degree/professional qualification is desirable however it's more important to us that you bring the right level of experience, capability and desire to succeed
• Showcased expertise on a project or a specific piece of work or led a project within the core areas of your expertise
• Allocated and directed a project budget
• Managed a team of employees from different locations or regions

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