Project Manager

Brighton / Hybrid / Fully Remote WFH available

Project Manager (SaaS - Software and Product) required by a leading technology / software compare based in the centre of Brighton. The Project Manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of both internal and external software development projects and product focused projects. I have recruited over 30 people for these guys over the last several years and as a recruiter with 20 years’ experience I can say that these guys have the best company culture I have ever experienced bar none! ??

Benefits

The Project Manager will not only be joining an awesome company with an awesome culture, but you will also benefit from:

• Starting salary of up to £60,000
• Office based / Hybrid / Fully Remote WFH available
• 25 days annual leave (Plus Bank holidays) increasing with service
• Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Pension Plan
• Perkbox Retail discounts
• Various salary sacrifice schemes (season ticket loan, ride to work, childcare vouchers etc.)
• Training & Development budget
• 'Wind-down' Fridays, bi-weekly (games, pizza, drinks etc.)
• Bring your dog to work day once a month
• Free onsite massages
• Casual dress environment
• Awesome vibe & culture
• Excellent career learning / progression opportunities

A few details about the role

As a SaaS Project Manager you will have an exciting and varied role. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Managing multiple projects concurrently
• Facilitating the clarification and communication of project requirements, objectives and priorities.
• Ensure a successful delivery by working together with the customers, Product Managers and key stakeholders
• Conduct estimation and planning workshops.
• Creating and managing overall project plans, maintaining a backlog of prioritised user stories, release and sprint plans
• Managing the project scope and budget, aligned to commercial agreements
• Managing changes to scope/requirements and reporting project status to customers and stakeholders
• Engaging problem-solving skills to identify risk and issues, take mitigating actions and remove project obstacles
• Creating and maintaining relevant project documentation to ensure appropriate audit trails exist
• Ensuring sustainable product design and implementation in line with best practice, relevant standards and technological developments by facilitating cross-team collaboration
• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative software that truly delivers business value
• Coordinating the transition to Support from the Project team following successful project delivery
• Creating and maintaining product support documentation including administrative, technical, and end-user system documentation
• Escalating project issues appropriately
• Performing end of project reviews capturing and applying the learning
• Providing feedback on the performance of developers to the relevant Development Team Leads
• Motivation of project members to deliver against the stated objectives

What you will need

Desire is fantastic, but you will also need:

• Have the aspiration and ability to learn new technologies and methodologies
• Thrives on solving problems, loves grappling with complexity and can make the most difficult concepts easy to understand using sincere and clear communication skills
• Has a friendly 'Can do’ attitude
• Collaborates effectively with other disciplines and can be trusted to deliver
• Wants to invent cool, progressive stuff that’s useful to the industry
• Has calm presence of mind when it’s needed
• Has a strong sensible streak - but knows how to have a bit of fun now and again
• Are able and willing to travel as required
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in customer software/IT solution project management
• Proven track record of managing and implementing software projects
• Recognised Project Management Qualification (PRINCE II, Agile Project Management)
• Experience in an agile environment preferably SCRUM.
• Excellent English and communication skills, and the ability to build consensus amongst all stakeholders
• Budget management
• Strong leadership and scope negotiation skills.

If you feel that you are the Project Manager that my client is after, then please apply via the link of contact me directly via my personal LinkedIn profile page.

All the best,

Charlie Syrett

Richmond Square Consulting Ltd