Senior Project Manager

We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our evolving EIT team.

The Opportunity…

Operating within a federated IT Operating Model, consisting of Enterprise IT (EIT) and Business Unit IT delivery portfolios, EIT owns, secures, maintains and supports a portfolio of Enterprise IT services and Applications and provides functional leadership and support to the Business Units. EIT aims to deliver the Enterprise IT services portfolio to the right quality and best value for EDF Energy and its stakeholders.

The Enterprise IT operating environment is complex, meaning our stakeholders' needs are constantly shifting and evolving, in several dimensions:

• Supporting a rapidly evolving energy supply market, both in industry and in the home;


• Supporting the need to move beyond supply, to provide innovative energy services and products;


• Supporting our existing generation assets through to end of life and beyond;


• Supporting our new build programme;


• Meeting our cost targets set by the Executive; and


• Digitalising the workplace to support ever more efficient ways of working., The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing the successful delivery of strategically important, large, complex projects, or workstreams within major change programmes. Assignments maybe on behalf of the Operational Business Units who utilise services from Enterprise IT or resulting from EIT generated Strategic Initiatives.


To achieve this, the Senior Project Manager must ensure that the management and support for each project is in line with relevant Portfolio governance. Project progress, budget, risks, issues, and variances must be monitored and managed through to acceptable business outcomes.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the project producing a result that can achieve the benefits that are defined by the Sponsor or Steering Group.

Your project(s) form part of a business aligned portfolio of work, and therefore overall programme performance will be reported via that portfolio.

You will be line managed by the Senior Portfolio Delivery Manager, but your direction for day-to-day project activities will come via the Project Steering Group, if appropriate.


• Are focused on customer-centric service and meeting customer expectations, this will be achieved by a passion for understanding our Business needs and delivering against their objectives


• Possess solid project delivery management experience in both agile & waterfall


• Have excellent leadership skills with the ability to motivate and lead others.


• Are a persuasive presenter and communicator with the ability to build relationships within EDF.


• Have strong coaching, influencing and people management skills.


• Are experienced in project delivery, including experience in leading and managing teams to delivery operational outcomes in line with the business need.


• Have good skills in influencing and negotiating with senior stakeholders across the company to achieve results and managing these relationships to maintain a high level of trust.


• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.


• Show initiative and make time to ensure general technical competencies and specialisations are kept up to date in line with industry developments.


• Have advanced knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects/programmes within waterfall and agile projects, including use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS project.
  
  At EDF, everyone's welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.


We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed., Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.

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Alongside a starting salary of £65,000, potential to earn 10% bonus, private healthcare, 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we'll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. This role would require you to occasionally travel to some of our offices such as Gloucester or London as and when required.