Senior Technical Project/Program Manager (London Area)

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Role: Senior Technical Project/Program Manager

Location: Watford/London

Work mode: Hybrid (3 days WFO)

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Opportunity to work for one of the Big 4 Professional Services firm.
• Senior Role giving opportunities for career profile growth.
• Opportunity to work with cutting edge technology like AI & Data.

The Role

As a Senior Technical Project/Program Manager you will be reporting to the Programme Director/Program Sponsor, and will work closely with Technology, Project, and Business teams to ensure high quality deliverables, maintaining strong 3rd party vendor and stakeholder relationships at all times.

Your specific role will be to actively work with project planners and BAs and developers/3rd party supplier to plan, execute/deliver within the planned timeline and budget. The Project Manager will be also responsible for finalising the project deliverables, creating the scope and gaining technical approvals. You will finalise the effort (and cost) with the program/project sponsor and the Vendor Management/Commercial team. You will be also responsible for tracking project progress, maintaining critical paths and controlling milestones and project baselines.

Following the in-house project lifecycle and quality standards you will work with other functions within Enterprise-Wide Technology to ensure key project components are put in place with a key focus on strict change control. You will need an eye for detail, ability to shape and drive key activities forward and to think outside of the box with new innovative ways of working and with multivariate tools and technology.

Your responsibilities:

Supporting project teams through the provision and coordination of a range of standardised planning services. Key activities include:

• Maintenance of multiple project plans in collaboration with project planners and workstream leads. Planning duties will include: running weekly programme update sessions to progress project plans, responsible and Oen the project plan ; controlling project and programme milestones and baselines; and impacting the changes of task delivery to overall project and programme timelines.
• Manage interdependencies and provide management reporting across complex projects and programmes for the sponsor as well as the PD.
• Subject Matter Expert for all planning related matters in accordance with the TTC planning standards.
• Support the collation of the Programme, Working Group and SteerCo packs – producing the necessary planning MI (including milestone forecast and baseline dates and RAG status) in the required format (such as ‘plan on a page’ views).
• Utilise existing MS Office based automated reporting tools to quality check MS Project plans and run automated POAP reports.
• Responsible to maintain the potential /emerging risk and issues and to track and mitigate the same during delivery.
• Ensure plans align to broader governance requirements inside / outside of TTC (i.e., Stage Gates, TAG, Security etc).
• Own the Risk, Issue and Dependency and delivery – set the required meetings with the right stakeholder group. Will ensure that dependencies and impact analysis of risks and/or issues are recorded and mitigated/addressed as required.
• Organising and running planning workshops across the programme. These will be necessary at project start up, during re-baselining, and during significant changes to project scope or approach.
• Perform the necessary QA checks to ensure that all project plans are maintained to the necessary quality and conform to organisation planning standards.
• Support any programme plan assurance checks and audits including timeline and effort/cost deviations.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Experience in Document Management solutions - Presently they are using Worksite – but are planning to move to a new SPO/Power Platform based system. The PMs (2x) will be working for DMS workstream /upgrade under Tom Davis -their Data/MDM and Document Transformation initiative.
• PRINCE2 /PMP certified with additional certification of MS tools. Deep understanding of Technical and AMS process. Preferably with Engineering/IT background.
• Expert level MS Project planning skills with experience of having supported large and complex projects from conception to closure.
• Excellent knowledge of MI tooling including PowerBI and Excel skills with the ability to present detailed and fast-moving information in an effective manner.
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills and experience at all levels, and capable of developing and maintaining effective working relationships, with the ability to inspire confidence in project management and programme stakeholders.
• Highly organised, confident, self-starter who can help shape the role.
• Being able to understand the wider programme and firm objectives as well as the workstream aims.
• Good knowledge of project management approaches.
• Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• Driven and enthusiastic with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a strong sense of ownership to get the job done in a practical and pragmatic fashion without upsetting others.
• A strong problem solver with a pragmatic and tenacious attitude to seek out resolutions.
• Effective team working skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals towards shared goals.
• MS project planning and Reporting skills with reporting tools/apps like PowerBI reporting, SNOW.
• Experience of working on big/complex transformation/large programmes of change with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of working in large organisations with multiple stakeholders and multilocation/divergent teams.
• Knowledge of budgeting, contracts and resource allocation process/procedures.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.

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Next Steps:

Application Process

1. Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/ by uploading your CV. In case you wish to submit your application via another format like audio/video, please, contact - UKI.recruitment@tcs.com
2. Skill-Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in-person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
3. Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person-organisation fit.
4. HR Discussion : This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.

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