Business Development Commercial Executive

About the client

Our client s mission is to empower people, build community and bring the world closer together. Through apps and services, they re building a company that connects people worldwide, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and brings people closer together.

Requirements

• Understand the Project Delivery Framework (PDF) and how to apply both Waterfall and Agile project delivery methodologies within the framework.
  
• Understand the key elements required to set up an IT project and work closely with PMs and other parties to ensure smooth set up. Ensure PDF compliance through setting up appropriate repositories and data entries, maintaining quality data, and making sure that required deliverables are created, reviewed and approved.
  
• Produce project reports and ensure that status reporting is fit for purpose, complete, timely, accurate, and communicated effectively.
  
• Capture and track risks and issues. Maintain change logs.
  
• Examine project documentation/data for completeness and accuracy.
  
• Effectively use tools like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project, Visio), PPM, and required templates to create and manage project deliverables.
  
• Define and implement the PMO environment and toolset which is fit for purpose for a project. Ensures effective usage of the toolset and that adequate processes, assurance, reporting, communication, data, etc. are in place.
  
• Support the PM to define, sequence, and estimate resources, activities, and durations to develop a baseline schedule. Track and manage activity progress, dependencies and deviations.
  
• Support the PM to manage the resource plan, for example, through initiating project resource requests to suppliers and monitoring timecards.
  
• Support the PM to create a project budget and work through approval processes to agree the budget. Track, report on, and reconcile actual costs and revenues across the project lifecycle.
  
• Proactively ensure project assurance compliance.
  
• Facilitate project meetings and track minutes and actions.
  
• Coordinate mandatory reviews and audits on schedule and according to procedure. Track resultant recommendations and actions necessary to address shortcomings.
  
• Facilitate meetings to ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and actioned.
  
• Onboard new Project Managers to the Project Delivery Framework.
  
• Manage the logistics and operations of the project governance structure. Support the PM to generate effective reporting and presentation material.
  
• Advance IT discipline in PDF adoption through coaching others in its effective application. Support PM and PMO staff to develop the critical skills and characteristics required for success in contingency, cost, resource, schedule, and risk management.
  
• Drive contingency management and proactively control project costs and schedule through understanding and monitoring project risks and managing project resources and scope.
  
• Develop and drive standard processes for cost/resource/schedule/risk management across large programme(s) and/or portfolio(s).
  

• Act as an empowered partner with the PM and be confident in speaking up and intervening.
  

Benefits

• Travel allowance
  
• An open culture where you can express your views
  
• Excellent Work life balance
  
• Visa sponsorship
  
• A great group of like-minded colleagues
  
• Relocation support