IT Project Manager required to work with cross functional teams to manage the delivery of small to medium sized initiatives within a varied and fast paced commercial environment.

The role reports into a central change function but working closely with IT and business functions you will deliver multiple initiatives, working with multiple remote 3rd parties and with both internal and external senior stakeholders.  You will operate within a hybrid framework that encompasses both waterfall and agile tools and techniques and will be able to both pragmatically apply them as required.

These initiatives may involve changes to multiple IT systems; the introduction, removal or modification to technical architecture; and / or significant business change

Our client a national organisation located conveniently between Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside requires an experienced Project Manager and are offering an attractive package up to £56K + Bonus and exceptional benefits

IT Project Manager – Key Skills and Experience

• Good working knowledge and have successfully applied a variety of delivery frameworks (eg waterfall and agile) and best practices
• Comfortable and confident managing hybrid project teams (waterfall and agile).  Competent with both waterfall and agile ways of working and tools
• Commercial acumen and financial planning
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to handle difficult or sensitive situations and explain complex material in a simple and easy to digest fashion
• Good influencing and negotiation skills both with internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.
• Experience managing IT 3rd party suppliers and partners both on and offshore
• Strong analysis and decision-making skills with keen attention to detail
• Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills with the ability to work proactively with minimal supervision.

You will have experience of leading the delivery of software and IT change, as well as the delivery of non IT business initiatives. You will have a solid appreciation for how change impacts the business and / or end customer.  Working with the business change team to ensure a seamless delivery to the end user / customer.

This is an excellent career opportunity, based in the north west of England easily accessed from Liverpool, Manchester and the surrounding areas and offering an attractive package c£56K + Bonus & Benefits. Please don’t delay in applying – for further information about the role and client please forward your CV to Steve Hallworth at Elevate Recruitment and he will call to discuss the client in more detail.

Our client is offering an attractive salary up to £55k pa (depending on experience) combined with an impressive Bonus & Benefits package plus the opportunity to work in a dynamic fast-moving and very rewarding Business Analyst role for a national organisation.

eCommerce Business Analyst – Key skills and experience

• Strong Business Analysis skills ideally in a commercial environment
• Strong eCommerce experience
• Able to build investment/business cases for the board and stakeholder approval
• Able to build future roadmaps
• Omni-Channel experience (beneficial)
• Proven background and experience in Change management
• Understanding of how people go through business change and possessing a toolkit of techniques to help manage resistance
• An understanding of data modelling
• Proven experience of working with Agile practices

eCommerce Business Analyst will use the company’s Business Change Framework and work with the Business to facilitate understanding of the change and translate this into an engagement story.

eCommerce Business Analyst – Main areas of engagement

• Work with business sponsors to facilitate understanding of change and scope
• Use this info to translate the change into a tangible engagement story
• Create, maintain and report on your Business Change plans –being accountable for the plan from creation to delivery
• Use your specialist insight to influence situations you feel have room for improvement, have a voice and challenge back where necessary to achieve the best outcome for the Company
• Create a clear picture of the impact for change to the business/ function with recommendations to mitigate
• Work cross functionally to bring to life any end to end impacts, influencing where need to ensure the change will be delivered and sustained
• Gather business requirements
• Map ‘As is’ ‘ To be’ states, working with process experts to bring the current and the new to life, piecing it all together and providing a route of how we move from one state to the next

For further information regards this exciting Business Change role please forward your CV to our retained Consultant Elaine Hallworth

Experienced Head of HR / HR Director required by our client – an impressive, fast growing global organisation – to be responsible for centralising and managing their global HR function.

As Head of HR / HR Director, you will plan, develop, implement and evaluate the organisation’s human resource function.

Based in the Cheshire/Merseyside area our client offers a competitive salary, generous benefits package, and the chance to join a friendly, professional team offering an exceptional global career opportunity.

Head of HR / HR Director – Key Skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in human resources or management
• Previous experience in a similar role leading a team of international HR specialists
• Proven experience of working in a global environment
• Strategic and hands on experience of centralization of global HR systems
• Project delivery and onboarding process of new systems and HR providers
• Global acquisition and merger experience
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Experience of driving HR initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Strong leadership and influencing capabilities
• Ability to travel internationally

Head of HR / HR Director – Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the HR function, retaining an element of hands on duties across areas such as talent acquisition, employee career development, succession planning, retention programmes, training and leadership development

• Integrate a global HR systems into a Group HR policy and performance management system.

• Develop initiatives, policies and programmes to add to existing practices
• Ensure consistency across the organisation
• Travel to global regions as required

Please contact retained Consultant Elaine Hallworth to discuss the position in more detail including the competitive salary, generous benefits package, and the chance to join a friendly, professional team offering an exceptional career opportunity.

Experienced CTO required by our client – an impressive, fast growing global organisation – to be responsible for their international IT operation.

Based in the Cheshire/Merseyside area our client offers a competitive salary, generous benefits package, and the chance to join a friendly, professional team offering an exceptional career opportunity.

They are seeking someone to provide proactive and strategic direction for their teams and deliver an IT strategy which supports the objectives of this global business. You will be working as part of the Leadership Team responsible for delivery of cutting-edge IT service ensuring MIS and IT infrastructure services are maintained.

CTO – Skills and experience

• Proven experience in a CTO/senior IT leadership role
• Track record of leading and successfully delivering diverse IT projects internationally
• Solid experience of computer systems (hardware/software), networks, security, database, storage and cloud services
• Strong leadership with the ability to build, develop, lead and motivate teams
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal abilities
• Graduate level or equivalent business experience with relevant qualifications

CTO – Responsibilities

• Design and delivery of the strategic direction of the company working within the Leadership team
• Oversee all IT management (including technology operations) in an expanding international environment
• Relationship management – engaging with key stakeholders to provide insight into the current and future requirements for IT
• Manage the technical transition and integration of business mergers and acquisitions
• Provide strong people leadership, across the business including improving the use of the available data systems and technology
• Engage staff across the business to be involved in the planning the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to the IT team
• Keep up to date with developments in technology that could improve company strategy
• Manage all aspects of cyber security, ensuring that disaster recovery and business continuity measures are firmly established

For further information regards this unique opportunity, please contact the retained Consultant Elaine Hallworth working exclusively on this opportunity

Project Manager required to manage the implementation of our clients’ transformation of an HR Software system called MyHR across all business divisions and all legal entities.

This will require almost all aspects of MyHR (Success Factors) to be updated, from foundation objects and position data through rules and workflows to role based permissions, and technical interfaces between modules.

Uploads to move employees into new structures and positions, will need careful management to ensure that management hierarchies remain in place to execute/ approve transactions, and to avoid overwriting promotions, job changes or other in progress BAU transactions.

Based at our clients prestigious offices in East London the role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a multicultural environment. The role is offered on an initial 9 month FTC basis and are offering a salary up to £49K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Project Manager – Key skills and experience

Project Management qualification
Experience managing large scale HR data/ systems implementation/ updates
Must fully understand implications of data uploads in HR systems
Must have a strong track record of holding workstream leaders to account across a complex/ global business.
Able to work as trusted advisor in resolving issues and mitigating risks, with a depth of understanding in HR systems, data and process.
Project Manager – Accountabilities

Project Management

Develop, agree and manage project plan covering all aspects of MyHR system and data updates with business, AskHR, HRIS support and Operations Specialists.
Ensure all systems impacts and requirements are fully understood and prepared for implementation before starting work on data updates.
Performance and resources

Validate assigned resources, knowledge, preparation and performance to plans and address any issues directly with resource managers.
Customers and Stakeholders

Establish fortnightly governance with HR resources to track progress, manage risks and issues.
Weekly update with HRIS and other projects to update plans.
Risk and Compliance

Analysis and Reporting

Weekly highlight report.
Analyse status and completion reports by status in MyHR.
For further information regards this fantastic opportunity to join this multicultural international organisation, offering a salary up to £49K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Experienced second line IT Support Engineer required by an international organisation required to join a dynamic team working in a fast paced technical environment, providing 2^nd line support to staff worldwide and some 1^st line support where necessary.

The IT Support Engineer role is based at our client’s offices in East London and is paying a salary to c£30/35K + attractive benefits package. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your existing IT skills as part of a close knit team.

IT Support Engineer – Skills and Experience

• 3-4 years of working in a front-line technical IT support environment.
• Microsoft Azure experience (including Intune & AD)
• Excellent communication skills, able to confidently work at all levels within the company.
• Office 365
• Desktop OS including Windows 10.
• Microsoft Office 2016 including Outlook setup and troubleshooting.
• Mac OSX + Office for Mac administration & troubleshooting skills
• Windows Server 2008 R2 and above
• Windows Server Administration
• Windows services: DNS, DHCP, DFS, NPS, RDS, File and Print
• Experience with VMWare Esxi, vCenter. 

IT Support Engineer – Key Responsibilities

• Providing 2nd line support to staff globally
• Providing 1st line support where deemed necessary
• Management of day-to-day IT tasks such as software installations, fault diagnosis and correction.
• Administration tasks of key IT systems including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Cloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure used by key areas of the business.
• Monitoring internal IT servers and services globally ensuring a pro-active response is taken to any issues to ensure smooth running of the business.
• Asset management: Maintain and track inventory of equipment.
• Managing and maintaining backups for internal IT systems
• Provide support on internal IT projects as directed by the IT Support Manager 

Apply now to discover more about this fantastic opportunity to work as an IT Support Engineer for a fast paced international organisation, with 2/3 days based in office once restrictions are lifted based at our client’s offices in East London and paying a salary to c£30/35K + attractive benefits package. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your existing IT skills as part of a close knit team.