Project Manager
Tes Global
London
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2019
Job overview
THE are looking for an experienced full time Project Manager to provide project management support across the internal THE departments.
Reporting into the CEO, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of a variety of projects from initial inception and requirements review through to implementation.
Projects will be typically focussed around business efficiency and customer service improvements, product/revenue growth and expansion, application / system implementation and business resilience improvements.
Key role responsibilities:
The Project Manager will be responsible for the management of the entire project lifecycle on one or more given projects. This will include (but is not limited to):
- Business case review and project feasibility evaluation
- Scope & requirements definition
- Plan/schedule definition and management
- Overall management of and responsibility for each stage of the project, as applicable, including e.g. prototyping, development, testing, UAT, Beta, etc.
- Resource management
- Change management
- Budget definition and management
- Action, Issue and Risk management
- Quality process management
- Supplier and Stakeholder management
- Project progress monitoring and reporting (regular Checkpoint, Highlight and Programme level reporting and Exception reporting if applicable)
- Executive level project briefings
- Ensuring successful project documentation & handover to Operations / Business-As-Usual
- Project closure and review
- Support to the CEO as required in relation to a given project/s.
Education and experience requirements
Significant hands-on Project Management experience, with full accountability and responsibility for project delivery.
You will hold a project management certification and be able to operate in both a Waterfall and Agile environment. You will have a proven track record of delivery across multi-disciplinary projects – covering core areas such as online, system/application development, infrastructure change, and process / change management.
Resource management experience essential. You will be responsible for estimating, scheduling and allocating work across the project team to meet tight deadlines.
You will be an excellent communicator and influencer: the role involves close collaboration with business teams, key stakeholders, technical developers and management of commercial relationships with external 3rd parties.
You will also be comfortable with reporting at an executive level as the role will involve frequent senior management progress / milestone reporting updates.
You will be highly motivated, delivery focussed, pragmatic and have an open and honest approach. Able to work both at a detail and strategic level as and when required.
The ideal candidate will have a “can do” attitude and a calm/measured approach. You must be comfortable working in a fast paced and changing environment and able to take a flexible approach.
Budget & Risk management experience essential.
Knowledge of the Higher Education sector or directory publishing sector would be beneficial.
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About Tes Global
- Tes Global
- 3 St Paul’s Place, Norfolk Street, Sheffield
- South Yorkshire
- S1 2JE
- United Kingdom
Tes Global is a digital education company that has been supporting educators for over 100 years.
Our mission is what we stand for. ''We believe in the power of great teaching. We support and connect teachers and schools worldwide, helping them to improve children's lives through education''
Our company
We’re aiming to develop the products and services that will make the biggest difference in global education. We’re providing teachers and schools with training, resources and jobs services alongside the world’s largest online teacher community.
We are working to making a difference in the lives of educators, children and students by building a strong and sustainable digital education company, with commercial and social purpose that will improve standards in education worldwide.
Our culture
We put educators at the heart of everything we do and we‘re passionate about the difference we’re making in global education. We succeed by working together to develop and deliver by collaborating across teams and global locations.
We’re excited about our future; we’re embracing new ideas, innovative ways of working and open technologies so that we can help every educator in the world to raise global teaching standards.
Our people
We treat others’ as we would like to be treated ourselves – with dignity and respect. We’re sociable people with a sense of fun and if you believe in improving education worldwide we’ll warmly welcome you here.
We are diverse, we come from different backgrounds and different countries; we are teachers, journalists, designers, technologists, sales people, events managers, software engineers and more. We are socially engaged and united by our passion to support educators, schools, universities and students to ensure that everyone has the best education wherever they are.
Our rewards and benefits
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and engaging workplace where we value everyone’s contribution. We have high expectations and our people work hard so when it comes to our benefits, we have everything you’d expect, from health insurance, generous annual holiday entitlement and retirement benefits. But we also offer more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are and are there to support your work / life balance, your health, your development and your financial security.
Our commitment to diversity
We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation and we believe that we are stronger when we are inclusive. You’ll be treated fairly whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or family circumstances.
Everyone is responsible for the promotion and advancement of our diversity policy and we are an Equal Opportunities employer. As such, we are committed to ensuring a culture of equal opportunities with respect and dignity at work for all employees.
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We are a truly global company with a presence in the UK, US, Australia and beyond, and everyone, in every location is an integral part of the Tes team.
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