Job Title: Junior IT Project Manager
Location: Maidenhead
About RWS:
RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.
Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.
Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.
Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).
For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:
The Junior Project manager manages a variety of IT projects to deliver against project goals/deliverables efficiently and effectively. Works on a variety of smaller to medium sized projects and leads the project team in delivering against the overall project objectives. Applies developing project management skills and experience to achieve results

Responsibilities:
* Operational Excellence – Delivers a variety of smaller projects on-time, within budget and with high quality resulting in the successful achievement of project objectives.  Manages all facets of the project to include: scoping, estimating/sizing, project methodology, planning, resourcing and scheduling, monitoring and controls, communications, and project close.  Leads a project team responsible for a variety of work streams.  Monitors and controls projects against established project goals, metrics, and KPIs. Takes proactive actions to resolve issues and keep projects on track. Supports more senior team members on larger more complex projects.
* Delivers Quality, Value, Results – Uses a variety of developing project management methodologies, tools, and techniques to optimize project quality and profitability.  Handles problems before they escalate and/or escalates to the appropriate person in order to resolve in a timely fashion.  Identifies opportunities for improvement and helps to implement process enhancements in order to deliver exceptional results.
* Relationship Building – Builds strong working relationships internally and externally that enables project team to work collaboratively and effectively.  Develops stakeholder confidence by regularly checking in, assessing satisfaction, and uncovering concerns
* Liaising with internal business and technical teams to ensure business requirements are defined, documented and delivered
* Supporting the management of relationships and contracts with third-party technology suppliers/partners
* Owning and managing the Delivery plan and RAID logs, Managing & mitigating risks & issues. Tracking all decisions/dependencies – with support from senior team members where applicable.
* Managing projects through Requirements, Design, Build, Test to post-implementation support.
* Complete handover to Operational IT support of the new technology and capability, ensuring it can be maintained and supported.
* Help ensure the Business owner tracks and monitors benefits realization against planned targets
* Communicate with stakeholders of varying levels of seniority, from developers through to middle management.
* Support and shadow senior members of the project management function in their delivery of larger, more complex projects and programmes.
* Proactive self-learning to enable development and growth into a more experienced project manager within RWS.

Requirements:
* Prince 2 Foundation (aim to achieve Practitioner level)
* Experience of delivering small sized projects, following a standard project management methodology, in one or both of the following disciplines:
o IT Infrastructure, Network or IT Operations,
o Software & Business Applications e.g. Sales, Marketing, HR or Finance systems
* Ability to communicate at all levels of the business

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 
As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

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