Job Title: Scheduler - Distributed Storage
Location: Birmingham/Sheffield
Day rate- £350 inside ir35
Start Date: 6 month contract
Job Type: Contract

We have an exciting new contract opportunity for a Scheduler - Distributed Storage with one of our leading financial services clients on a 6 month contract!

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• A Scheduler is required within Distributed Storage to support the delivery of programme of work
• Working with Programme Team to understand the overall plan and key stakeholders
• Driving task delivery and facilitating meetings and dialogues in planning, scheduling and execution
• Working closely with technical resources to support their deliverables
• Identifying service owners/planning change schedules and resources requirement for the programme
• Creating change records and driving through approvals to ensure work can complete to plan
• Delivering change control documentations including pre/post documents, escalations/incidents
• Delivering measurement/reports on change volumes, cadences, KPI regarding delivery
• Escalating issues that cannot be resolved in a timely and concise manner

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Expertise within project delivery/global rollout is preferable
• Co-ordination, planning, and delivery focused
• Experience in working with a large project, IT/business changes in an Agile environment
• Strong skills in stakeholder management and people engagement
• Good negotiation skills, with the gravitas and credibility to engage business colleagues at most levels
• Good understanding on IT concepts across platforms/technologies specifically on Storage
• Good skills in reporting and tracking
• Good grasp on the strategic direction of the HSBC and IT
• Ability to establish mutual expectations with business partners/stakeholders is required
• Strong skills in Jira, MS Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Pro-active person who anticipates issues, conflicts, problems and puts into place effective strategies to manage these
• a self-motivated, delivery-focused individual

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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