Monday, August 11, 2014

FILLED: Digital Project Manager, West London, £600 per day, Immediate Start

Digital Project Manager

Interim, 6 months +
West London Based
£600 per day
Immediate start

Role Summary
Our client is a leading international media company with 25 million customers across 14 countries.  They have a multichannel strategy to serve their clients with stores, service centre and digital presence.

They are looking for a consultant with experience of owning the technical roadmap for a customer facing website (platform).   The successful candidate will have a proven technical track record delivering/managing change to a high transaction rate customer facing website.



Details
The role holder will be the primary interface through to Solution Design, Technical Delivery and Test Teams for 'Customer Facing' platform changes.


In particular they are responsible for:


* Owning technology Roadmap for 'Customer Facing' platform (covering all planned  changes including Business Backed Projects so that there's a clear view on everything that's planned for the platform).
* Defining governance of the technical workstreams for the 'Customer Facing' platform.
* Planning technical delivery and releases (with Implementation Manager) for 'Customer Facing' platform.
* Ensuring consistency across workstream and technology end-to-end plans for 'Customer Facing' platform deliveries.
* Managing the technical teams to deliver designs, software and infrastructure to agreed budget and timescales.
* Managing Technology governance process for the 'Customer Facing' platform, to include status reports and RAID logs.
* Reporting to Senior Sales SI on status of the 'Customer Facing' technical delivery against plan
* Resolving cross-programme technical workstream conflicts and escalations
* Managing the Project through technical delivery gates in line with agreed Company methodology
* Managing the Project budget for the technology changes (into budget owner)
* Managing 3rd party vendors (design to test complete)
* Ensuring technology team has appropriate skills and resource allocations
* Managing change control of milestone dates across technology plans
* Supporting Overall Sales SI in production of status reports for Programme/ Sponsors.
* Central point of contact for change control in the technology workstream for 'Customer Facing' platform changes.






Key skills and Requirements



* Demonstrable track record managing the changes to a Customer Facing website of  a FTSE 250 type organisation

* Strong technical understanding of 'front end' and 'back end' web based applications, their design, development, test and release

* It is likely this person will have worked for or worked closely with one of the large consulting based Systems Integrators


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