Job Description :
No Travel and H1-b Visa''s OK. Will work Corp to Corp on this.
Job Purpose:
To lead a specific portfolio of projects and/or project team by securing and managing project resources to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, to stakeholder requirements and with minimal operational disruption.
Key Accountabilities:
Directs and coordinates all project or program activities ensuring quality delivery.
Define, monitor and control allocated project resources, maintaining financial and progress forecasting to ensure projects are delivered per schedule and within budget.
Implement project tracking mechanisms to be able to provide timely and concise updates on project progress to senior management and key stakeholders capturing key decisions, developing assumptions, identifying and managing all risks and dependencies to safeguard delivery.
Assist in identifying potential conflicts in use of resources and other project scheduling issues and propose solutions and corrective actions to overcome the obstacles.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders such as consultants, procurement, and the business teams to share best practice, identify potential new projects and liaise with other working areas during project progression to realize cost savings, foster innovation within National Grid and avoid operational disruption.
Oversee the operational workload of the project team ensuring allocated staff are fully utilized to deliver against agreed project schedule.
Challenge existing project processes, technologies and systems to continuously seek ways to do things better in order to achieve department and business objectives and drive greater efficiencies for the business.
Lead, motivate and develop assigned project resources, prioritize work and allocate resources in order to ensure results are delivered in line with expectations and customer/business objectives.
Develop and maintain project documentation, including the necessary approvals where relevant, so that an accurate record exists for review and regulatory purposes.
Promote the philosophy of corporate safe, environmentalism, and efficient team working and development across project teams within a diverse and inclusive organization.
Knowledge & Experience Requirements:
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Up to 7 years’ project management experience supported with relevant formal qualification, preferably in implementing large scale change in a comparable complex delivery organization involving multiple internal resources and partners across global regions.
Solid knowledge of project management fundamentals and project management practices, specifically PRINCE2, APM, Agile, ITIL.
Requires a thorough understanding of program management practices, quality assurance specifically test strategy and lifecycle, leading transformational change and effective Service Transition.
Knowledge of operational systems and processes related to their area of project work.
Extensive knowledge of company policies, procedures, field operations, organization structure, budgetary process, regulatory processes and labor agreements.
Strong MS Office suite, project management software skills.
Experience of working with ServiceNow solution supporting integrations
Job Dimensions:
Employees: Project team
Supervise outside contractors
Member of Global Project and DevOp Teams