IT Project Manager
Form of Employment: Permanent
Start Date: Immediate
Location: London, Hybrid (2-3 Days Onsite)
Reference ID: 522
Role Summary
Aubay seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of large-scale, high-risk IT projects within our client’s organisation. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and delivering complex projects to meet identified business needs. This role requires managing the full project lifecycle, ensuring that the necessary resources, skills, and governance structures are in place to deliver on business outcomes. You will drive the strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and project execution while coaching and developing your team to ensure a high-performing, motivated project environment.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Experience working on various projects in Energy/Oil & Gas.
- Agile project experience, including knowledge of various Agile frameworks and experience in planning and leading Agile projects.
- Experience in educating stakeholders and team members in Agile methodologies, with preferred certifications or training in Agile (e.g. Agile Coach, Scrum Master).
- Proficiency in Agile tools such as VSTS (Azure DevOps).
- Strong servant leadership qualities, fostering empowerment and transparency for self-organising teams.
- Professional project or programme management certifications (e.g. PMP, MSP).
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly in unfamiliar and ambiguous situations.
- Strong stakeholder management and governance skills, including coaching senior stakeholders and creating executive-level communications.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Agile certifications or training preferred.
- Experience in creating executive communications and reports.
- Strong understanding of Agile project tools and methodologies, specifically VSTS.
- 10+ years in IT with 5+ years delivering progressively larger and more complex projects up to $5m, teams up to 20.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee the full project lifecycle, from planning through to execution, monitoring, control, and closure, ensuring delivery within agreed timeframes, cost, and quality standards.
- Rigorously manage project scope, using a structured change management process to ensure business benefits are delivered within project constraints.
- Develop financial forecasts, manage budgets, and reconcile resources and expenditures. Employ creative costing and business models to enhance project efficiency.
- Partner with business stakeholders to validate strategic business cases, define success metrics, and ensure planned benefits are achieved. Identify and exploit additional benefits through systems, processes, and data.
- Ensure stakeholders are prepared for the operational business environment post-implementation through effective change management and communication plans.
- Apply client’s project management methodologies and IT control/assurance standards, ensuring compliance with architecture, risk management, and transition to support processes.
- Build and lead a high-performing project team through effective communication, workload management, and team recognition. Develop team members' skills through coaching and delegation.
- Establish robust governance structures to secure resources, resolve issues, and ensure project objectives are met.
- Proactively identify and address key project risks, assumptions, and factors (technical, business, adoption, organisational, etc.) that could impact project success, and adapt the project approach as necessary.
- Champion the development of long-term Project Management capability, contributing to community-building and best practices through coaching, external insights, and advanced skills development.
- Quickly establish trust with project sponsors and key stakeholders, aligning with their strategic priorities.
- Resolve conflicts and deliver challenging messages with professionalism and grace.
- Maintain team motivation, removing barriers and enabling them to meet objectives under pressure.
- Create executive-level communications and manage senior stakeholders effectively.
- Remain focused, productive, and resilient under pressure, recovering quickly from setbacks.
- Make calculated decisions to balance risk mitigation, value delivery, and project quality.
- Understand and integrate project goals with business objectives, adapting to challenges and changes as needed.
About Aubay UK – Ahead of Innovation!
Aubay UK is a recognised InSourcing Partner for client-side deployment delivered across London. Our team, based in Canary Wharf, specialises in hiring IT professionals within London’s Energy and FinTech sectors, helping our clients to expand their operations with top-tier talent who are experts in their fields. We work exclusively with clients who are globally recognized as Energy Super Majors/Financial Services and innovative FinTech players.
Aubay UK is the most recently started branch of Aubay Group www.aubay.com. Aubay Group is an international Digital Services Company, listed on a Euronext Stock Exchange, who have been operating for 25 years in the European market and working alongside some of the biggest names in the Banking, Finance, Insurance, Energy, IT/Digital, Manufacturing, Transport and Telecoms sectors. With over 7,800 employees across 7 countries and 16 offices in England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Aubay Group generated revenues of €534 million in 2023.
What Aubay UK Offers
At Aubay UK, people are at the heart of our business. We offer a competitive remuneration package which includes a range of benefits. You will receive continuous support from our dedicated Talent Acquisition Specialists, who will support your career development and success during your assignment with our client. Other benefits include:
25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Pension scheme
Work-from-home opportunities
Access to Udemy training platform and conferences
Discount on winter sports holidays at www.aero1607.com
Opportunity to work directly for the client at the end of the assignment
Our Client
Our client is one of the Super Major global energy companies with around 84,000 employees across 70+ countries who are working to power progress through cleaner energy solutions.
Specialities: Upstream/Downstream, Biofuels, Integrated Gas, New Energies, Chemicals, Energy and Trading.
You will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast-paced and changing fundamentally and work towards transforming the business of a Super Major energy company to meet the ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 whilst delivering a world-class business case that has a robust societal license to operate. In your role, you will be expected to enact change and deliver value globally across business lines and geographies.
Apply via our website - www.aubay.co.uk
This role requires you to be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
Aubay UK is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. Employment decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
