Project Manager - Liverpool

Job Description

Job Role: Project ManagerHours: 09:00 - 17:00, Monday to Friday (35 hours per week)Department: IT PMOLocation: LiverpoolOur client is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco, and Hong Kong. With more than 850 people including 185 partners and legal directors, the firm deliversadvice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work to all forms of commercial litigation.Our client acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and bankingand financial services.Role overviewIntroduction to the role:Our client is embarking upon an ambitious consolidation and upgrade roadmap, and current projects include the migration of their entire infrastructure into the Cloud, migrating their DMS (iManage) to a SaaS offering, upgrading their finance systems (Aderant),and replacing the business-wide HR platform with a new solution (Ceridian Day Force). They are also working on several cyber security projects.Along with the above, they have a portfolio of circa twenty-five further projects in the pipeline for kick-off this financial year, and they are looking to extend their project management team to help with the delivery of this challenging, complex, and interestingworkload.As a team, they are responsible for the full delivery lifecycle of their projects, from initial kick-off meetings, requirements capture, testing, delivery, business readiness, rollout, and finally, handover to BAU support. Outside of the wider IT Changeand Ops team, they work closely with others within the business including the legal business groups (Health, Marine & Business Services), Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Finance & Operations.They have no in-house development; rather, they focus on collaborating with suppliers who provide them with specialist software services configured to meet their companys needs. Their Project Managers are responsible for the management of the suppliersalong with ensuring that the defined solution meets the internal stakeholders needs.The broad range of support they provide means that the role of a Project Manager is a varied and challenging one. Because of the variety of their work, they do not adhere to a specific methodology - rather, they work to suit the needs of the project and thedelivery team on a per-project basis as they see fit.They do, however, follow a formal delivery process for documentation, reporting, and governance.Introduction to the team:The IT Delivery, Change and Operations Teams are a group of more than fifty individuals covering multiple specialisms. Based across Liverpool, Manchester, London, and Singapore, the team is responsible for the strategy, planning, delivery, cyber security, servicemanagement, and 24/7 support of all IT Services to almost 1,000 of their company staff globally within their £100m+ turnover firm.Sitting at the heart of this wider team, the PMO currently comprises six project managers, five business analysts, three QA analysts, and a PMO analyst. They are responsible for the planning and delivery of all IT projects across the board, and their work touchesevery part of the business. Alongside this, they also work with the business to deliver continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma methodology to ensure that they are keeping internal processes lean and therefore providing the best value for their clients.They are a close-knit team who work exceptionally well together, and they are proud of the ethos they have developed.

Keyskills :
Project Management / Change Management / Business Solutions / IT Delivery / Strategy Delivery / Consumer Duty / Metrics / IT Change / Strategy Program