Project Manager - IT - Employment,career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Project Manager - IT
Job Type    Permanent
Location    Birmingham
Start Date    ASAP
Salary    £35k pa + bonus
Ref No    268292-00008151_080004


Birmingham's only publishing house is currently recruiting for a Project Manager to join their collaborative and dynamic team at their Central Birmingham Offices

They have established themselves as the #1 publisher of books and ebooks for the developer community, publishing more content than any other IT publisher in the World. In 2013 they added a video production team, sharing their mission to create and share practical knowledge on key emerging tools and technologies.

They are a leading publisher of books, video and information services, dedicated to providing the optimum learning and problem solving solutions to software developers and IT professionals Worldwide. Their mission is to deliver the most efficient and cost effective solutions for this community and they strive to continuously improve their products to make them ever more relevant, practical and valuable in meeting the evolving needs of their customers.

The Role

The Project Manager (IT) is an experienced SCRUM professional and will be responsible for the strategic program management of production workflow related projects. This is a senior role within a small business. They will lead the planning for project strategy and developments to meet business priorities in the production workflow program.

Responsibilities:

- The overall coordination of setting the priorities for program management roadmap for production workflow management.
- Collaborating with the project and development teams on user story inception and development
- Authoring user stories and gather information necessary from stakeholders for delivery of correct functionality
- Ensuring that projects are delivered to the expectations of customer community.
- Coordinating with Business stakeholders in the prioritisation and detail of story deliveries
- Collaborating with other product owners, PnP management and IT Operations teams to define and maintain a consistent product vision
- Have insight and vision on the market, business and customers to understand and identify opportunities to be raised to the business steering committee
- Analyse and judge trade-offs between solution options, usability, costing and performance needs.
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
- Support the upkeep and bug management of existing systems
- Various activities as delegated by the team manager
- Contribute to evolve and refine the Agile project management procedures and techniques used by the business.

Essential Requirements:

- A bachelor's degree preferably in an IT related subject
- Minimum of 2yrs experience in an agile project management role ideally within the IT sector, however they will consider other industry experience
- Experience/certified in SCRUM
- Experience of managing multiple projects concurrently




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