Exchange Online project manager

TomGandhi Consulting Limited ,
Birmingham, West Midlands

Overview

No Sponsorship Job Title : Exchange Online project manager Role : Contract Location : Birmingham , UK JD Key Responsibilities, Developing and managing relationships with sponsors and stakeholders across business lines and supporting infrastructure teams, Maintaining production of deliverables, ensuring adherence to deadlines and to establish quality standards, Supporting in the control and implementation of an E/V Migration process , including budget planning and control, vendor/tooling selection if required, Providing analysis of ad-hoc queries and ability re-prioritise in order to support urgent activities at short notice, Regularly attending scheduled meetings and telephone conferences e.g. presentation of work results to decision makers/work groups, partly processing of meetings and telephone conferences (agenda, keeping minutes), Coordinating escalation of critical issues in a timely manner as per agreed processes, Creating presentations as a basis for discussion with various control planes/stakeholders, Supporting the program & team management , Identifying, remediating and mitigating risk: Audit items and Self-Identified Issues Skills and Qualifications,Essential Skills: Extensive work experience in the financial industry, with experience relevant to End User Technology, Experience in project/change management environment, including ability to facilitate meetings/workshops, Experience in Mail migration projects for an enterprise organisation, preferably within Financial Services, Motivated, self-starting - able to initiate and lead projects to the desired business outcomes, Assertive with excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills, Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build trust and to mediate between various stakeholders, Ability to communicate effectively and to influence peers and senior managers, with the confidence and ability to structure, summarise, present project status as well as defend recommendations and business outcomes, Ability to understand the big picture and processes front to back in order to identify and manage interactions and dependencies in a timely manner, Delivery focused with ability to prioritise multiple assignments and requests, and meet tight deadlines Technical Skills:, A practical knowledge of Office 365 specifically Exchange Online, Ability to understand at a basic level corporate infrastructure components e.g . LDAP, Active Directory, Wintel Servers, backup systems, network structures, Proficient use of project planning tools; Microsoft Project, Clarity, JIRA, Proficient use of Office products (Word, excel, PowerPoint, Visio) Education / Qualification: Professional qualification: Prince2 and/or PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Agile