Project Manager, Communications, Change

The Role:

Project Manager with strong communications experience working across multiple workstreams is required by a buoyant financial organisation. This role will be focused on communication and culture change resulting from a significant merger and will see you working collaboratively to help plan, organise, and deliver projects in a structured way.

This is a remote working role with travel required across UK sites, mainly London and Manchester (fully expensed). This is an initial 12-month fixed term contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working alongside the Workstream Leads, other Project Managers, Suppliers and key stakeholders to identify and execute the deliverables and sequencing that achieve the project outcomes
• Production of the Project Initiation Documents (PIDs) for both workstreams and all identified projects
• Engagement with all workstreams within the programme to understand key communication events, ensuring regular engagement with these workstreams to monitor progress
• Production of the project plans, ensuring that the tasks to achieve the deliverables are captured with resources, dates and completion milestones
• Identification of any cross-project dependencies and agreement with the relevant PM on delivery dates and tracking mechanism
• Agreement of the baseline dates for the key deliverables in conjunction with the Integration Management Office (IMO) so these can be captured in the Programme Plan alongside any cross-project dependencies
• Management of the project plans ensuring updates are captured in line with the IMO governance timetable
• Identification, capture and management of any project risks, assumptions, issues and decisions in line with the IMO governance process
• Production of the monthly Executive Sponsor review pack in line with the IMO governance timetable
• Management of the workstream budgets ensuring any requests for additional spend are captured through the change control process, quarterly review and update of project forecast based on spend to date
• Attendance governance meetings in line with the published timetable, providing key updates for the projects as required
• Identification and management of key stakeholders for the project

Key Requirements:

• Strong previous project management background
• Ability to work across multiple workstreams, plan/organise, identify key stakeholders/audiences and deliver in a structured way
• Insurance/Financial Services experience preferable
• Willingness to travel, especially in the early discovery phases.
• Ability to ensure that Programme communications are planned, drafted, approved and distributed in a timely manner

For a full consultation on this exciting opportunity, please send your CV to ARC IT Recruitment.