Senior Project Manager We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow. Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them. What does Access offer you? We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. You will start with 25 days annual leave that increases with your seniority in the company, a private healthcare and life insurance. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. There are plenty of other perks. Apply to find out more. About you: The Senior Project Manager's prime responsibility is to ensure that a complex, high-risk project produces the required outcome, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. The Senior Project Manager is leading/driving a number of workstream related Customer Success/CoE transformation/Product Delivery/change initiatives governing the delivery across the Access organisation. The Senior Project Manager uses their knowledge, experience & project management expertise to lead the identification of requirements to deliver initiatives aligned to either to customer contract or Access strategy/action plans. Project Plans are developed, stakeholders are proactively engaged and positive progress against an agreed action plan is reported. Role holder will manage a team of resources assigned to their projects while managing the relationship with the customer, subcontractors and other Access business stakeholders. The role holder’s challenge is to ensure that the customer’s confirmed requirements are met by the project and delivered to the agreed project definition in line with the contractual terms. Role holder must establish and maintain quantitative process improvement objectives that support the project business objectives and aligned with sector/functional/industry change/direction adopting ‘best practice’ and the most up to date thinking and methodologies. Day-to-day, you will: • Defines the project requirements and manages the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role. • Works within the P3O Capability Unit and supports it goals and management team. • Manages the production of the required products and the delivery of the project in partnership with the customer and the division to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service. • Manages the delivery of the project/multiple projects in partnership with the customer and division to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service. • Operates along Access working practices ensuring compliance with policy statements and are run in line with the Access Acceptance into service process. • Gathers status reports of team members across their projects and addresses issues as appropriate. • Reports to the Project Board through regular Highlight Reports and stage assessments. • Manages business and project risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies (RAID) and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the parties. • Ensures that formal review procedures are used. • Manages the risks associated with the deliverables of the project in line with Access delivery framework & calls out associated change in (RAG) status as appropriate. • Minimizes Access’ exposure to risk across multiple projects. • Integrates financial data for multiple projects. • Analyses profitability, revenue, margins, rates and utilization across projects. • Ensures that the impact on the division P&L due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g., Project Board. • Is accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting the division in meeting payment milestones. minimizes Access’ exposure to risk across multiple projects. Your skills and experiences might also include: • Would normally have delivered more than 5 projects of significant size (i.e., likely £50K-£100K professional services), ideally in the IT sector, from either a customer or supplier perspective. Ideally have experience of delivering in a waterfall style (e.g., Prince 2TM) and Agile at various stages in the project lifecycle both pre contract and in delivery. • Ideally have had exposure of working in different sectors and must have several years’ experience working in a Technical Delivery or Support/Operations/ Professional Services/ Operations/ CoE Function within a technology organisation. • Works on multiple projects at a time and led at least one multiple partner/supplier project. • Experience in delivering project from inception to implementation aligned to organisational’ s governance framework. • Experience of managing teams. Demonstrates significant competence in leading and progressing teams; communicates reviews and develops them. • Experience of P&L accountability earned value and cash flow management for fixed price contracts. • One of Prince2 practitioner, Agile PM practitioner, ITIL green badge or equivalent. • P3O experience in at least three of: • Programme/project office experience • Consultancy • Transfer projects • Transition projects • Transformation projects • Application development projects • Deployment projects • Research projects • Flightpath project • Must have strong leadership and management skills. However, the individual appointed must also be capable of understanding the wider objectives of the project/programme, be able to influence others, and be able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with senior managers, and with third party service providers involved in the management and operations of the project/programme. What are we all about? The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace. At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.