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Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Contract Type: Permanent Recruitment
Specialisation:
REF: 122995
Contact Details: Dylan Campbell
Contact Email: dylan.campbell@beyond.co.nz
Job Published: 12 months ago
If you're an experience project professional at senior level, based in Wellington, New Zealand and looking for your next opportunity, then this could be your next career move.

My client is looking for a Senior Project Manager to provide high quality project services. You will have the expertise through the use of IT tools and intelligence to deliver a diverse range of projects designed to deliver effective regulatory outcomes.

The Senior Project Manager will adopt a variety of project delivery methodologies as needed, escalate risk, actions, issues and decisions in a timely manner. This will ensure technology projects are delivered to the desired quality, within agreed restraints of time and cost and ensuring what is delivered is embedded and adopted by the business.

The responsibilities of this role will be:
  • Provide on-site leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
  • Responsible for the full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several project initiatives simultaneously
  • Prepare estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project
  • Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
  • Clearly define internal and third party accountabilities and responsibilities
  • Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources, and chair the project management team meetings
  • Create, manage and share project status updates, reports and presentations required to manage stakeholders and drive project outcomes
  • Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs, monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
  • Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
You will have the following:
  • Tertiary level qualification
  • Experienced in multi-project management
  • Experienced managing both complex software development and infrastructure projects which involve integration or inter-related systems
  • Experienced delivering change across a broad range of people, process and systems
  • Strong experience presenting to senior leadership and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, at all levels of management\
  • Proven expertise in a range of project methodologies
  • Role requires 7 – 10 years’ experience project management and delivery environments
  • Experienced tracking and managing costs, schedules, and quality by overseeing project deliverables
  • Certification in project management and change management essential
  • Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills
  • Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
  • Experience managing third party delivery by coordinating procurement, contract negotiation and management
  • Proven ability to work in a dynamic environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective
  • Ability to work in a culturally safe and respectful manner, always being mindful of the cultural diversity of the industry and having regard to Te Ao Māori and Treaty of Waitangi principles.
The salary for this role is between $135,000 to $145,000. Please ensure you hold NZ Citizenship or NZ Permanent Residency.

Get in touch asap if you're interested.
Dylan.Campbell@beyond.co.nz
02102339067