Junior Project Manager

Junior Project Manager – IT Project Coordinator, Project Administration, Administrator, Coordinator, Project Support, Project Management Assistant, PMO, Project management office, Junior project manager, Permanent, D365, Dynamics AX, D365 F&O – Home based – Remote Client Site Travel – £45K-£50K

Our boutique implementation partner client is looking for a Junior Project Manager to join their team. This is a great opportunity for someone coming from a PMO/Junior project manager background to work on some new and exciting D365 projects. This is a permanent role with a smaller boutique partner with a healthy pipeline of projects. Candidates must be based in the UK and be open to travelling to customer sites as and when required.

Key Skills and Experience:

• D365 F&O experience is essential. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at all business levels
• Ability to communicate clearly both in writing and verbally.
• Ability to communicate both tactfully and candidly.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and planning skills: Ability to identify, analyse and define a problem, evaluate alternatives, find solutions and make a recommendation.
• Excellent Excel skills: In order to dynamically structure, maintain, track and communicate resource activity across complex multi-faceted, parallel Programme streams with multiple variables
• Resource Management: Ability to identify and make optimal use of resources and subsequent tracking of each resources task and time allocation.
• Ability to work in a self-sufficient manner, under the guidance of the project managers, whilst maintaining clear and open communication at all times.

Main Responsibilities:

• Be an active member of the project team, supporting colleagues and peers to help deliver the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations projects.
• Working within the guidance of the overall Programme and direction of the project managers.
• Resource allocation, activity tracking and reporting.
• Implementation of a mechanism to plan, track, monitor and report on resource allocation to activities within the defined structure and timeline of the Programme.
• Monitoring resource allocation against their agreed time apportionment to the Programme.
• Identifying ‘overloading’ of any resource in order to assist in mitigation of the associated risks.
• Ensuring ‘fair’ scarce resource allocation across project streams
• Collating and tracking of holiday / other commitments that may impact the scheduling and management of resource.
• Managing the availability, schedule and activities of shared resource across business as usual and the Programme.
• Finding the optimal time in busy schedules across the team for workshop / meetings with minimal conflict.
• Calendar scheduling and management.
• Ownership of the sending of invites for all workshops/activities required across workstreams as defined by the project manager.

Location: UK/ Remote with occasional travel to client sites

Candidates must be eligible to work in this country.

Catch Resource Management is a leading provider of Dynamics 365, JD Edwards, NetSuite and other ERP resources to both end users and to product suppliers/authors.

Our consultants deliver a completely professional resourcing service, always backed up by our team of ERP specialists who are all experienced in full project life cycle implementation and support, thus ensuring that we fully understand our clients’ requirements and our candidates’ skills.

If you have the relevant skills and experience for this position we would welcome your application, however please note that we receive high levels of responses to our advertisements so can only immediately respond to those that are a close match. However, if you are interested in hearing about similar positions then please register on our website: www.catchgroup.com.