Project Manager at Upperlink Limited

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management and Reporting.
• Responsible for setting up and running projects and reporting progress to the relevant senior stakeholders;
• Planning for delivery of large scale programmes;
• Reporting on project costs and forecasts, identifying issues and suggesting potential cost savings for consideration.
• Depending on the nature of the project, you may also be required to report to external stakeholders;
• Project Communications by developing and distributing internal project communications; and
• Continuous Process Improvement by understanding current practices and identifying areas for improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required;
• 2+ years experience in project management, especially larger projects with established firms
• PMP certificaction required; Experience in Agile teams
• Proven leadership skillsExpertise in conflict resolution
• Analytical and strong organizational skills, with excellent verbal and written ability
• Proficiency with related software tools including but not limited to JIRA, MS Excel, etc.

Required Skills:

• Significant experience of successfully managing a range of complex, high value projects and programmes from requirement definition through to project closure.
• Experience of dealing with senior client and stakeholders within the business.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines, managing a directing a team, strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Process improvement experience working on large scale programmes.