Senior Project Manager

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Senior Project Manager.

Sword Group is currently seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team.

This role will ensure the successful specification and delivery of a range of projects to the business by leading and working closely with other project managers, business department managers and key Stakeholders.

Location: Aberdeen , UK

Requirements

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career. We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area. If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

• Collaborate closely with areas of the business to improve business process and the supporting IT systems, establishing business cases, priorities and managing demand, specifically around digital transformation with a focus on analytics.
• Work with other IT project managers and the IT teams to deliver a high quality, project delivery service ensuring that the internal IT team is the partner of choice for the business department.
• Work with the business to identify business problems and opportunities and define IT solutions to support business systems developments.
• Develop ‘fit for purpose’ IT recommendations which accurately reflect business needs. Ensure such recommendations are consistent with IT compliance, structure and environments.
• Perform requirements gathering, including, eliciting requirements, requirements organization, requirements management and communication.
• Responsible for the preparation, co-ordination and presentation of analysis documentation which will clearly define the analysis outcomes and resolution of a specific IT analysis task.
• Planning, monitoring and control of any IT enhancements as a result of analysis activities.
• Support and assist in the development of a long-term projects plan for the relevant business functions that will assist the IT group and departmental managers understand the long-term application & systems roadmap.
• Liaise with IT infrastructure and support teams to ensure that proposed project solutions are technically sound and that they can be accommodated within the infrastructure and support framework.
• Provide advice and information to the Business teams with regard to the deployment and use of information technology and surrounding issues.
• Lead project resources and the business to ensure that delivered projects are of a high quality and that delivered products have very good sustainability.

Professional Skills & Experience

• Project Management experience in an oil and gas environment strongly preferred.
• Working within IT projects in the upstream oil and gas industry across a number of operational and service areas
• Undertaking requirements analysis, tendering the work and delivering contractual terms and agreements for the provision of software, hardware and services
• Proven experience in a fast paced, changing environment, self-motivated and energetic.
• Proven track record of working well in a team environment.
• Strong knowledge of IT concepts and a wide range of technologies and their potential to resolve business problems.

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.