Our client, a large Defence company is looking for a IT Project Manager to join them on a initial 12 month contract at their site in Harlow, Essex. Applicants must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance. Hybrid working, roughly 2 days per week onsite in Harlow. GBP75 p/h Umbrella, inside IR35. The IT function is responsible for the delivery of IT services to all UK based divisions to successfully enable our expanding business and assure operational delivery of critical functions and services that are reliant on all aspects of technology to drive revenue growth, improve business efficiency, reduce risk and maximise customer engagement and alignment. Main Duties: Manages all aspects of multiple highly complex projects concurrently from initiation through closure taking full end to end responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of the projects. Manages digital and infrastructure projects and programs, typically involving multiple disciplines in the digital technology function through the life cycle of a project or program. Utilize expertise and leadership skills to direct teams to fulfil organizational demand and to resolve issues to ensure project or program goals and requirements are met. Provides scope and/or budget bids and analysis, resource allocation and coordination of project/program activities. Assigns and monitors work of the interdisciplinary team, ensuring the body of work is in alignment with business objectives and/or contracts, on-time and within scope and/or budget. Monitors reliability and any internal issues that appear as a result of the project. Manages all project risk; including time, budget, and scope, and the associated plans to contain and/or mitigate risk. Establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders - including third parties/vendors; liaising and communicating effectively as required. Selects the appropriate methods, tools and artefacts within the IT IPDS delivery methodology, ensuring that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained in line with agreed governance. Candidate Requirements: Essential Prior experience in Project Management within defence or highly regulated technical industry, ideally within global environments and/or global matrix organisations. Demonstrable senior project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management and communication. Capable of leading complex infrastructure and technology projects e.g., multiple stakeholders, teams of greater than 5 people, of greater than 6 months duration, and greater than GBP0.5m in budget. Proven experience of full lifecycle management of IT Programmes and Projects from inception to delivery, especially solution identification, design, pricing, risk management and early project definition before transition into service operation. Experience of the critical project to service transition phase and associated early lifecycle support. Proven experience of Program and Project Management Best Practice. Ability to understand complex systems and business processes and define requirements for solutions. Experience of operating effectively under the governance of a PMO structure. Solid experience of delivering complex technical projects across the IT domain especially Application and Server migrations High level of proficiency in MS Project, Team Foundation, or other robust scheduling/schedule presentation tools. PRINCE 2 and/or PMP certifications. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Science, or Mathematics Desirable Ideally experienced with process quality methodology and ITIL. Business experience of technology consulting, managed and professional services in commercial or public sector organisations. Master's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Engineering, Science, or Mathematics