In line with company expansion plans, Emydex are currently recruiting for the following position:
Programme Manager
To take total accountability for the planning, resourcing, leading and delivery of all Emydex customer projects to agreed timescales, budgets, specifications and service levels
Responsible for the people management of the programming implementation team consisting of 5-10 software developers
Duties and Responsibilities
- Plan customer projects and monitor their overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
- Management and analysis of issues.
- Build, manage and motivate the Programming implementation team. Conduct annual team member appraisals, and coach for performance as necessary
- Build monthly resource schedules in order to deliver customer projects to agreed timescales
- Ensure the delivery of products and services from customer projects are to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with project plans
- Be responsible for the quality assurance and overall integrity of projects delivered to Emydex customers.
- Manage third party suppliers to customer projects as appropriate.
Communicate with all stakeholders.
- Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
- Manage customer change requests including preparation of quotes and deliver
- Monitor and manage all customer support calls logged through the customer support portal
- Report progress of the all customer projects at regular intervals to the company Technical Director
Skills / Attributes Required (Desired)
- A minimum of 8 years experience in Project / Programme Management using leading project management methodologies and processes.
- Experience of managing multiple parties including application programmers and third party vendors
- The ability to manage projects across multiple locations
- Prince 2 level training or equivalent
- MS Project
- Understand budgetary control and resource allocation procedures.
- Ability to create a sense of community amongst the disparate members of the project teams
- Knowledge of the Food (Meat) processing Industry (highly desirable)
- Knowledge of VB.net and SQL technologies (desirable)
- Ownership of a car (desirable)