Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Senior Project Manager – Strategic Delivery Office

Full-time, permanent

London, UK

About us:

Fragomen is the world’s leading exclusive provider of immigration services. We are a firm of more than 6,200 immigration-focused professionals and staff spanning more than 60 offices worldwide. Immigration has been our sole focus for 70 years, and today we offer support in more than 170 countries. We are problem-solvers, innovators and established thought leaders in immigration, providing strategic immigration advice to a diverse range of clients from individuals to the world’s leading multinational corporations.

Fragomen’s professionals are respected thought leaders in the immigration field providing expertise to governments across the world including the US Congress, the UK Parliament, the European Union and the United Nations.

A career at Fragomen will provide you with the opportunity to work in an exciting environment for a broad range of clients, where no two days will be the same. You will face interesting challenges and you will work with dedicated, friendly and ambitious people, where providing exceptional client service is at the core of what we do. We are extremely proud of our diverse workforce at Fragomen and we are fully committed to providing equal opportunities.  We believe that our differences make us stronger.

About the team:

The Strategic Delivery Office executes on strategic priorities of the firm.  Our mission is to maximise strategic value through excellence in portfolio insights, program and project management delivery against the Firm’s strategic priorities. 

About the role:
The Senior Project Manager – SDO, is accountable for the success of strategic projects of high complexity that engage resources across the firm on transformation initiatives. Supports multiple projects, eager to the learn the business and works with cross-functional teams in planning and executing the delivery of project(s). Leverages standard practices from inception to completion throughout the lifecycle of the projects, ensures consistency, reliability, transparency, and alignment across all stakeholders.

How you will make a difference as a Senior Project Manager at Fragomen:

• Successful management of firmwide program(s)/project(s), ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope and budget.
• Work with the sponsor/s to define business case, project scope & success criteria and KPI’s.
• Work with the cross functional teams to confirm the approach, governance, milestones, and plan.
• Develop and track detailed project plans, milestones, and roadmaps, to monitor and track progress.
• Report progress across multiple projects to all relevant stakeholders, escalate to EPMO Director as required.
• Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs by following a formal change request process through the Portfolio Board.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Report and escalate issues / risk to minimise project risks.
• Create, maintain and enhance comprehensive project documentation using firm standard tools and guidelines.
• Follow project management discipline, methodology and best practices

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, business, or related discipline is preferred.
• Significant experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, preferably in the consulting, information technology and business transformation.
• PMP, PfMP, Scrum Certifications are highly preferred.
• Experience with O365 suite of tools, Microsoft project, ServiceNow, Tableau & SharePoint sites.
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, designing, resolving, and documenting complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Strong project management skills with experience in organising, prioritising, planning, and executing projects from definition through implementation, involving internal personnel and external vendors.
• Experience impacting transformative strategy within a large enterprise environment.
• Self-motivated, self-driven, enthusiastic, and a passionate team player.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, and strong organisational skills.
• Must be extremely structured to keep a team organised.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to juggle projects and multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodology.
• Capable of strategic thinking and moving strategic plans into action.
• Attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong working knowledge of project planning tools.
• Flexible to travel when required.

Fragomen in London:
Our London office has over 340 people working collaboratively and creating a dynamic, positive environment. You can expect a great working environment and regular events such as Summer and Christmas parties, social and cultural events.

The Firm operates a hybrid working model, which incorporates a blend of in-person attendance as well as working from home – our aim being to fully leverage our remote working technology and provide a balance for our people in the way that they work.

Whether in the office or working remotely, we are proud of our team spirit and we like to reflect this in the way that we work and everything we do. Our Responsible Business Practices (“RBP”) prioritises Fragomen’s social responsibility through one cross-cutting theme and five focus areas of Wellbeing, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, CSR including Pro Bono, Social and Sustainability. The RBP initiatives offer great opportunities for everyone at Fragomen to get involved and help steer a variety of initiatives and activities.

Fragomen is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity for all employees and applicants, regardless of race, ethnicity, heritage, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.