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IT Project Manager (Business Systems) - 12 Month FTC

Job Purpose

The role of IT Project Manager (Business Systems) is a pivotal role in delivering valuable application change. The Project Manager, successful in this role will be experienced in working with solution development teams and managing multiple workstreams across a solution delivery roadmap.

The role is focused on managing the working environment in which the solution is evolving. The Project Manager will coordinate all aspects of the management of the project at a high level.

The role of Project Manager supports the Business Systems team and facilitates team interaction, communication and active collaboration across multiple groups and discipline.

Working alongside these groups the Project Manager will ensure the efficient workflow and smooth delivery of core functionality, and services provided by Business Systems team.

This role is key to driving operational efficiency, and process excellence to facilitate continued growth and achievement to ensure competitive advantage for SEW.

The Business Systems team deliver Business Application Management services (functional and technical) across the SEW group. This includes ongoing system optimisation, product development as well as maintaining and managing existing systems day to day - Business as Usual (BAU).

The Business Systems team are also actively engaged in preliminary programme / project work across SEW teams in preparation for the deployment of the Global Financial Systems.

Key Deliverables

• Engaging with group sponsors and key stakeholders to build a shared understanding of desired outcomes, shape the ‘blueprint’ for process change and establish measurable success criteria (benefits realization).
• Working with the direction-level roles in defining the Business Case and organising Benefits Assessments.
• Working with the Business Analyst ensuring the requirements defined are of good quality and are that they are analysed and managed appropriately.
• Ensuring effective and timely communication, and provision of information to project to all stakeholders including Business Sponsor, Steering Committee and Service Owners as agreed.
• Performing high-level project planning and scheduling.
• Collaborating with the Solution Development Team and other appropriate stakeholders to create and agree the Delivery Plan (the schedule for iterative and incremental work in progress).
• Prioritising work to be done, distributed and tracked for timely delivery working towards project targets.
• Monitoring progress against the baselined Delivery Plan.
• Establishing links between dependant work types and delegate work effectively supporting and managing effective workflow across team tasks and activity.
• Ensuring risk, issues and dependencies are identified, monitored and controlled.
• Collaborating with sponsor, service owners or technical roles as required to resolve these as they arise.
• Prioritising work to be done, distributed and tracked for timely delivery working towards project targets.
• Handling problems escalated from the Solution Development Team providing help and guidance to progress the work to be done.
• Monitoring and ensuring appropriate involvement and communication between required members of the multi-disciplinary Solution Development Team.
• Attending ‘stand-up’ meetings, as appropriate, to keep a current understanding of the team’s progress and issues, and to mitigate and flag any important external issues that that team need to be aware of.

Key Stakeholders

Regional IT Directors, Director of Business Systems, Director of IT Service Management, Director of IT Project Management.

Reports to

Director of IT Project Management

Requirements

Person Specification:

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• An understanding of key project management lifecycles, project management principles and methodologies.
• Demonstrates the ability to manage Agile or Hybrid projects / lifecycles project management principles and methodologies.
• A proficiency in software development / app development for business systems.
• Experience working to support the development and deployment of new process, technology and services.
• Experience coordinating a team of software developers, managing production pipelines and workflow supporting successful delivery.
• Experience working directly with technical tool development teams supporting the development of new technology and services (Applications development and management).
• Knowledge of Software Development life cycle and Agile frameworks.

Desirable

• MSP, PMP,
• Prince2 or AHPP Axelos,
• PMI or similar accreditation
• ITIL V4Supplier management
• Contract management

Competencies, Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Strong written and verbal skills.
• Is detail orientated and thorough ensuring accuracy.
• A logical thinker and solutions driven.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, autonomy and ownership of your project / programme.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels.
• Is well practiced in cross project planning, team co-ordination and solutions delivery.
• Can strategically and logically introduce and apply systems and best practice.
• Demonstrates a natural ability as team leader steering projects forward to completion.

Technical Skills

Essential:

• Proficient integrating and developing Business Systems.
• Experience working to implement and support the continuous development and deployment of new technology and services specifically (ERP / Financial Information Systems).
• Proficient using the Atlassian suite of Tools including Jira and Confluence.

Desirable:

• Ability to demonstrate technical background with involvement in solution design and delivery.
• Ability to demonstrate proficiency of the ITIL framework and ITIL best practice.

Other

• Project management methodologies, techniques / themes incl. estimating and resource planning.
• Project Management tools / software
• Ability to demonstrate proficiency of the ITIL framework and ITIL best practice

Please note that Square Enix does not accept speculative candidate submissions from recruitment agencies.

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Covid-19 remote working

Square Enix are committed to keeping our employees safe. We are listening closely to government guidelines, and this role will be based remotely until the company sees fit to return to the office. This role will be based in our Blackfriars Studio in London, upon return.