Manager, IT Project Manager, Human Capital, Consulting

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Our HCaaS business sits within Human Capital, a practice that brings leading-edge tooling, research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you'll help to deliver innovative and complex transformation programmes for our clients.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

Human Capital as a Service (HCaaS)

You will be joining a team that is Deloitte's largest Human Capital Consultancy practice in the UK outside of London. Alongside this, it is an opportunity to join a unique team that consists of service offerings across Major Programmes and Human Centred Transformation and locations across the breadth of the UK including; Belfast, London, Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.

PPM Delivery Centre of Excellence

The continued success of our Centre of Excellence (part of the wider HCaaS offering) means that we are looking to grow further by recruiting IT Project Managers with experience in delivering technology transformation projects across all industries, with the right skillset and attitude towards performance, growth and development. Our team has experienced double digit growth over recent years, and we now look to continue to grow what is the largest team of PMO professionals in Northern Ireland.

The world has never before faced such a complex number of environmental, social and economic challenges and a new way of delivering transformation programmes is needed to respond to these. Our market leading transformation approach will challenge conventional thinking around the delivery of programmes, using a multi-disciplinary capability to help our clients deliver their most critical and demanding issues while reinforcing Deloitte's commitment to purpose-led change.

Our practice comprises of a blend of those who have worked previously in industry (in both technical and non-technical roles) and those who have prior consulting experience. The strength and value that our Centre of Excellence brings to our clients and Deloitte is a result of our collectively diverse and highly relevant industry insights and experience; the complexity of challenges our clients face requires us to leverage this diverse range of skillsets and experiences.

You will have the opportunity to work with one or many elite clients in:

• Consumer Business
• Technology, Media and Telecoms
• Energy and Resources
• Healthcare and Life Sciences
• Public Sector
• Financial Service industry

As part of a practice that brings leading-edge tooling, research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you'll deliver projects as part of transformation programmes that are not only innovative but deliver the most positive impact for all.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

As a Manager level IT Project Manager you will work with a range of clients and teams across our firm, to deliver projects that often will have a high degree of complexity. These projects will vary in nature and could be either technical or non-technical. You will bring your IT project management skills, knowledge and expertise to lead cross-functional teams to achieve success. You will build strong relationships with your stakeholders, understand their strategic direction, processes and requirements to become their trusted advisor on all elements of delivery. You will have experience of working with multiple stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, to support the client or business' objectives. You will be accountable for delivering projects in alignment with the agreed benefits through a value driven approach.

You will have a proven track record in successfully managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and will help clients deliver complex projects, utilising a combination of consulting experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology.

You will have responsibility for:

• Leading Agile Projects: Plan, design, and manage projects using Agile methodology principles, including Scrum, Kanban, or Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)
• Managing Project Team: Facilitate effective Agile ceremonies, review metrics, manage project backlogs, and lead a team of developers, business analysts, and other professionals towards the successful completion of the project.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with stakeholders - both internal and external to the project - identifying requirements, risks, and issues and analysing the impacts of these on project goals.
• Facilitating Communication and Collaboration: Promote communication and collaboration to ensure a healthy team dynamic and a highly collaborative project delivery process, including using various communication tools and techniques.
• Ensuring Project Delivery: Monitor and report on project progress to the business or project sponsors, using an iterative approach and in line with the established Agile practices. Ensure the project is delivered within the timeline, budget, and scope. Provide insight and experience to clients and engagement leadership to anticipate and resolve issues in outcome delivery.
• Continuous Improvements: Lead and encourage Agile process improvements, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and consistent improvement in Agile execution.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks impacting project delivery.
• Team Development: Develop competent and agile team members who are capable of working collaboratively, developing their skills and Agile mindset, and adopting new approaches and techniques.
• PPM Tooling: Adopt PPM / Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence to effectively manage your projects and team.
• Data Visualisation Tools: Uitilise data visualisation tools such as Tableau and Power B to effectively track progress.
• Internal Practice Development: Contribute to internal practice development by participating in proposition, methodology and point of view development activities and supporting knowledge capture and sharing.
• Business Development: Support business development by contributing to new business proposals and taking roles in industry and account teams.

The technical nature of your IT Project Management experience is expected to include:

• Experience of Agile / Digital frameworks and methodologies
• Managing delivery of projects, either within industry or with a consultancy
• Good commercial awareness and experience of managing budgets and resource utilisation
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written that inspire confidence in business stakeholders and the team
• Knowledge of the current market conditions
• Development and management of project plans and across value streams
• Operated as a qualified Product Owner
• Operated as a qualified Scrum Master
• Experience in using Microsoft AzureDev Ops / Kanban boards / Miro
• Effective management of dependencies in a project
• Mentoring and managing others in a project team
• Managing progress reporting and risk management
• Financial modelling, e.g. preparation of budgets and business cases
• Excellent communication, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and be able to respond to changing priorities
• Effectively co-ordinated all activities of project team(s)
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills
• Hold a current and recognised certification (Scrum or Agile equivalent)

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors."

- Sophia, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Belfast with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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