Job title: Associate Client Project Manager/PMO Coordinator

Location: Staines or Cheadle offices dependant on candidate location

ADP is seeking an Associate Client Project Manager/PMO Coordinator. This is a Hybrid role with a 50/50 split across the two roles.

The Project Manager role is to manage and take accountability for the successful delivery of national and multi-national client implementation projects to time, cost and quality.

The role:

• Manage full lifecycle multiple implementation projects using methodologies such as Prince2 or Agile on a day-to-day basis
• Travel to client sites in UK & Ireland regularly to continually build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders throughout the implementation
• Communicate with and manage key stakeholders, at all levels - manage multi-disciplined resource assigned to projects
• Communication and co-ordination of project activities including portfolio reporting
• Create and actively manage and maintain project documentation including plans, risk, action, issue and decision logs
• Advise clients on good practice within Payroll/HR processes, systems, change management and organisational transformation
• Manage change and deliver full scope including successful handover to service teams / clients and ensure timely project close and sign off

• Production of project plans in Project Place for the project lead / consultants for new assignments.
• Providing ad-hoc support to consultants in planning matters and acting as the project management office resource for consultant led projects.
• Support the delivery of client implementations.
• Close working with resourcing and allocations team to ensure new requests are managed promptly and new allocations or requests are evenly distributed.

• Motivated individual with effective communication to stakeholders at all levels keeping the right people informed.
• Able to make well balanced decisions when confronting problems and issues.
• Effectively plan and control the project actively managing delivery strategy, progress against plan, decisions, risks and actions.
• Strong project co-ordination skills to manage multiple projects concurrently and solid relationship building skills.
• The confidence to lead calls and meetings with associates and clients at all levels and to Lead the project team to achieve delivery of the full scope of the project.
• Experience in progressing and documentation of plan, decisions, risks and actions.
• Proficient in Project Place product (desirable), Microsoft Project and Office 365 suite.
• Experience of project management (desirable).
• Experience of end-to-end implementations - data migration, user acceptance testing and parallel run processes (desirable).
• Prince2 or similar Qualified Practitioner or equivalent experience.