Vice President

Job information:

• Functional title - Vice President, Project Management
• Department - Technology Projects
• Corporate level - Vice President, Technology Project Management
• Report to - Director, Security Program Manager
• Location - London 

 What you will be doing:

The PM will be:

• Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Program Manager and Project Owner, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
• Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilising resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects which report into a Security Program under a wider Portfolio of change.
• Responsible for detailed project reporting and governance adherence.
• Responsible for delivery of a suite of Cyber Security projects including new Security tooling and Operational transformation.  

What we’re looking for:

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Strategic

• Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments.
• Agrees and formalizes plans, conducts or co-ordinates required business analysis where necessary. Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Relationship management; develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Create project business case for all projects and ensure the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders. Responsible for demonstrating that stated benefits have been realised once the project has been delivered.

Operational

• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope, and budget.
• Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Effectively apply, support and champion the CLS Governance methodology and enforce project standards.
• Review deliverables prepared by the project team before company-wide review.
• Identify all project resources and where necessary work with the PMO to secure project support resources.
• Identify and lead the virtual project team.
• Manage, mitigate, and report project risks and issues.
• Where required, recruiting project staff and consultants.
• Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Detailed project planning and control including:
  • Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
  • Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
  • Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
  • Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
  • Managing project scope and change control.
  • Monitoring project progress and performance from a benefit realization, time, cost, and quality perspective.
  • Providing status reports.
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management
• From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports.
• Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections, apply analysis to this data to make project decisions and provide reporting of this data.

Leadership

• Coach and mentor junior members of staff.
• Display complete ownership for projects leading by example.
• Capable of managing a project team effectively through matrix management. Need to be able to get the best out of a team of people who are not direct reports.
• Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring effective communication and governance is in place.
• Influence and manage the project teams (internal and external) to deliver to the required constraints of time, budget, and quality.

Experience / Qualifications / Soft Skills

Experience / essential and desired for successful job performance.

• Significant practical experience of leading and managing Cyber Security change programs across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation.
• Extensive hands-on experience of delivering complex IT change projects in a highly regulated organisation.
• Have responsibility of delivering change programs with budgets in excess of $1m.
• Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases.
• Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems.
• Experience delivering security focused projects drawing on experience of Security frameworks such as NIST CSF / 800-53 Rev 5 and ISO27001.
• Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project
• Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
• Strong personal work ethic
• Motivated delivery focused individual
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Proven ability managing projects in a complex, demanding environment.

Professional qualifications / certifications

• Professional PM accreditation ((MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)
• Significant project management experience