Senior Project Manager (Band 3)

Job title: Senior Project Manager  

Salary: £65,000 + TfL Benefits
Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL        

Reference: 5722

Number of roles: 2 x PermanentContract details: Perm, Hybrid, Full or Part-Time Location: Pier Walk Office, London Application closing date: Friday 18th September

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

Job Purpose:

The Senior Project Manager will direct a team of up to 7 project managers and assistant project managers to deliver technology and data change through one or more projects or single programmes as assigned by the Senior Programme Manager or Programme Manager, up to a value of c.£30m and length of up to 2 years, typically, to the required standards of governance and control, ensuring these are applied in a way that is appropriate to the scale and complexity of the change.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for delivering the programme and/or projects through a strategic blend of in-house capability and external contracts and frameworks. They will shape and develop the programmes and projects with the product or portfolio leads, agreeing project management resource assignments with the Senior Programme Manager and gaining commitment to resource assignments from the T&D delivery functions.

Key Accountabilities:

• Leading a professional project management team of up to 7 people to deliver multiple projects or single programmes as assigned by the Senior Programme Manager or Programme Manager, that implement technology changes, business efficiency improvements and procurement obligations to achieve TfL’s business objectives.
• Shaping and gaining authority for programmes or projects assigned by the Senior Programme Manager or Programme Manager, working with the T&D delivery functions and Portfolio Leads to develop the programme or project execution plan and work breakdown structure to meet the required quality, delivery timescales and cost.
• Allocating project management resource (Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers) to the assigned programme or projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Delivery of the programme or projects to the quality, time and budget tolerances agreed with the Senior Programme Manager or Programme Manager through regular reviews with wider project team members and reviews of project documentation, and ensuring that programme and project risks and dependencies are correctly captured and mitigated.
• Holding internal and external suppliers to account for meeting or exceeding delivery requirements and that issues are escalated where required.
• Influencing supplier contract variations and building relationships to support the delivery of technology projects and programmes to ensure TfL leverages the best value and return when delivering projects and programmes with external partners; authorise project and programme deliverables and contract payments to values agreed with the Programme Manager or Senior Programme Manager.
• Implementation of projects and programmes up to a value of c.£30m and overall length of up to 2 years, typically, to drive TfL and wider Greater London Authority family business.
• Developing effective relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers at a day-today level and create ways in which the relationships can be developed and improved.
• Setting high standards of programme and project management practice and coaching individuals within their team to meet or exceed those levels of performance.

Essential Skills:

• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and influence people at all levels across the organisation and outside, including negotiating and successfully facilitating joint decision making.
• Proven ability to manage and influence senior and external stakeholders in a delivery capacity.
• Proficient in applying programme or project risk management methods and techniques for the assessment and management of technology and business risk within programmes and across projects.
• A positive, can do attitude and proven ability to deliver cost effective solutions when met with difficult and challenging project and programme impacting risks and issues.
• Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams to deliver effective end to end performance.
• Proven negotiation and problem solving skills including the ab