IT Project Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Murphy is recruiting for a IT Project Manager to work within their IT Team at either London, Leeds or Wigan,

Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the USA, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power and natural resources. So that our teams out on projects can run smoothly it is vital that we have robust support functions in place.

We are committed to fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment in which each person’s career is nurtured and developed. We focus on employee development, providing a culture of innovation and positive work-life balance.

A day in the life of an IT Project Manager

• Develop and manage effective relationships with key customers and business stakeholders
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and define project tasks and resource requirements
• Develop and maintain full scale project plans, setting out key milestones with realistic dates, ensuring what is in and out scope for each project is clearly identified, signed off and recorded
• Assemble project team resources, including external development partners and manage project resource allocation
• Ensure interdependencies for each project are identified and that all those involved clearly understand their role, responsibilities and deliverables and how these will impact on delivering the project
• Manage project budget and benefits realisation and track and provide quality assurance of all project deliverables
• Manage external partner delivery to specifications and timescales
• Conduct periodic project evaluations and implement improvements to achieve project objectives
• Identify, maintain and report on the project opportunity, risk, mitigation, issues and dependencies
• Monitor project performance indicators and key metrics, proactively addressing deviations from plan and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities as part of the programme team and the wider IT team.
  
  

Still Interested? Does this sound like you?

• Formal qualification in IT project management (ie APM, PRINCE2, Scrum)
• Previous experience working as an IT Project Manager
• Experience delivering business change projects
• Exposure of delivering IT business system and infrastructure projects
• A good working knowledge of Project Management tools eg. Project for the web, Jira, Microsoft Project Online
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc
  
  

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on 07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK