West London/Remote
£78Kpa + 22.8% Contributory Pension + 34 days holiday
Our client is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a digital framework for the procurement of services (construction and refurbishment of housing and other buildings across the public sector). Like G Cloud, Suppliers are pre-tendered, and organisations can advertise their project requirements on there.
They are 70+ strong and once part of a London Borough Local Authority, operating independently, but now a separate entity since 2023. Their Unique Selling Point is that with surplus profits, they make Charitable donations.
Last November a new CFO joined to be part of their senior leadership team to make the business operations more efficient so that the customer journey is optimised, the business is scaled, and they can maximise the revenue they generate to plough into charitable causes. A renewed commercial mindset is being delivered but with social purpose driving the outcome.
As part of the Transformation, we are currently recruiting a Director of IT and Transformation (DoITT) to improve the Technology landscape, scale the operational side of the business and to make more digital and automated in future.
In addition to that we are looking for a Senior Project Manager or Portfolio Manager on a 12-month FTC to start quickly and deliver a number of inflight and New Year projects based on Microsoft Business Applications and Microsoft Dataverse. D365 was implemented this year and is their core platform. They also build Power Platform solutions with PowerApps, Power BI, Flows and Pages in Azure.
One project example is the build of a customer portal to be used by the Community that deliver charitable projects through our client’s donations. Other 3 month projects will kick off in January.
Your role will be to pick up the existing projects and drive delivery. Working with the internal teams, an MS Consultancy Partner and stakeholders. To also schedule and plan other projects and manage and evolve the business plan.
Requirements:
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Demonstrable senior experience managing multiple complex projects and programmes through to completion.
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Microsoft Business Applications/Dataverse experience with either D365 projects and/or Power Platform and Azure
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Pick up and manage the Programme plan. To coordinate the delivery of projects within the programme
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Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging at senior leadership level.
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Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
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Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with experience using performance data and KPIs to drive improvement.
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Experience managing external suppliers or partners.
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Project Management Methodologies such as MSP, Prince 2 or Agile expected
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MS Project
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Good energy, comm skills, articulate and delivery focussed.
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3 Days in Uxbridge/2 Days Remote