IT Project Manager

We’re the UK's largest ports operator with a network of 21 ports around Britain. We handle around one quarter of the UK's seaborne trade and contribute £7.5 billion to our economy every year.

It’s a story we’re proud of but it doesn’t end there. We’re transforming our business and embracing the future.

We offer a vast range of roles spanning the UK, all rooted in a culture that welcomes diversity, fosters talent, encourages internal movement and progression, and places safety as our number one priority.

The Role:  IT Project Manager (initially 6 month FTC)

To drive forward the delivery of projects to achieve an effective business outcome. Ensuring successful delivery within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints..

Accountabilities:

• Defines plans for large projects, communicating complex schedules clearly & concisely to project team & stakeholders.
• Defines financial schedules for large projects, identifying & mitigating potential risks & issues regarding the business case with support from peers.
• Communicates project cost-benefit analyses to senior client stakeholders in an engaging format to achieve their buy-in
• Builds business cases for significant expenditures or headcount requisitions.
• Builds quality assurance plans for complex projects to ensure consistent quality of deliverables throughout a project
• Adheres to organisational operating framework processes and practices.
• Identifies potential project risks before they arise throughout large projects and updates project issue log & risk register, identifying feasible mitigation suggestions for each risk.
• Confidently addresses large audiences, relaying information clearly and leaving a sense of excitement and anticipation around the project.
• Actively manages resourcing issues, developing, and implementing appropriate mitigating measures to maintain resource use alignment to forecasts.
• Leads communication with suppliers, competently managing multiple vendors at each stage of the project lifecycle and assertively manages supplier performance, defining KPIs and measuring success against them.

About you:

You have the ability to cope with uncertainty, conflict and change. You are flexible, and persistent and have well-developed creative problem-solving skills.

You will be able to work independently with a strong bias to getting things done.  Understand the true value to the business of meeting objectives and timely delivery. 

You will possess a firm belief in the values of customer service and ABP’s core values of openness and honesty, teamwork and respect, along with the ambition to make a difference and exceed expectations.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Broad project management experience and a deep understanding and ability to apply available project management standards, tools and techniques in order to achieve this.
• Track record of delivering complex technology projects to scope, time and budget.
• Experience in team leadership, including motivation and direction of project team members
• Foster a culture of collaborative working and transparency both within the team and with external stakeholders, especially the customer
• Track record of the production of accurate and concise project deliverables, structured in an appropriate business format. 
• Track record of use and promotion of formal methodology and tools within project teams
• Ability to manage remote teams and 3rd party delivery
• Supplier management skills with a strong commercial acumen
• Willingness to travel around the Group as required for specific projects and generally

Desirable

• Experience working in any one of the functional areas used within ABP
• Possess a degree in an IT-related subject relevant to this post
• Project Management qualifications e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, PRINCE2Agile, AgilePM
• Managing projects in an SAP landscape.

Additional Information:

When joining ABP you will find an environment that is both welcoming and challenging. We reward our employees well and offer a generous remuneration package, employer pension, private health insurance and a range of other benefits.

Please note that ABP undertake random screening for substance abuse and operate a zero-tolerance policy. A medical will be required before starting this position also.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their background, which helps us to provide a diverse and inclusive working environment.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment screening to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Please note your consent will be required and further information on this check can be found using the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels