McGregor Boyall are pleased to be recruiting for a Procurement Manager for one of the largest Housing Associations in London – Ealing based.

The organisation has recently merged with another Housing Association which is presenting the opportunity for a Procurement Manager to be a part of a new culture who will be owning and streamlining processes for the business.

The organisation devotes training and ongoing development as part of their drive to learn programme, as a Procurement Manager you will truly have the exposure to continuous training in a friendly and forward-thinking environment that works well on sharing information and collaboration.

Everyone at the organisation has a Professional Development Plan, which helps you and your manager to identify and plan how you’ll gain new skills and experiences and achieve your career goals as well as a one paid for subscription to a professional body that is relevant to your role.

The company comes with a plethora of benefits including:

• Competitive salaries that are regularly benchmarked to keep up with current market rates.
• 27 days paid annual leave moving to 30 days after 2 years continual service.
• The opportunity to buy and sell up to five days’ of annual leave each year.
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Enhanced family friendly leave schemes.
• A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme: matching a contribution of 5% of your monthly salary with another 9% by us.
• Interest free travel loans for annual season ticket holders using public transport, cyclists and annual car parking fees.
• The use of Enterprise Car Club cars if you need to drive to a different location to do your job (London-based colleagues only).
• A great office environment which offers a hangout area with table tennis, comfy sofas and TVs. We also have shower facilities at our London offices for the keen athletes out there.
• Weekly yoga classes and a range of other sports, wellbeing and general social clubs, with events that everyone can get involved in throughout the year.

Role Holder Responsibilities:

This person will have a strong track record or developing and implementing best in class procurement performance across a range of direct and indirect categories. You must be able to demonstrate significant influence, value add and supply chain improvement across a number of sectors.

You must be able to demonstrate:

• Proven experience in the use of category management processes to deliver significant benefits to the organisation throughout the entire procurement lifecycle
• A broad knowledge and experience achieved within both Private and Public Sector procurement environments including use of the Public Contract Regulations and OJEU
• Experience of overseeing Asset Management, IT and/or corporate services categories.
• Experience of operating in a fast-paced and developing procurement environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with stakeholders, during a period of immense change across various business directorates, and maintaining focus on successful delivery
• The character and ability to work under pressure and deliver challenging targets on an enduring and sustainable basis as part of a co-located team
• Provide support to and where required cover for the Head of Procurement
• Qualified procurement specialist holding MCIPS or equivalent (If not attaining this qualification can be subsidised)
• You’ll deliver easy, reliable, empathetic service to your internal and external customers, by seeking to understand fully your customers’ needs, identifying and working to remove pain points, and always doing what you say you will

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Project Manager- Gaming industry- up to £70k base

Location: Central London

Looking for an experienced project manager who has a track record of delivering IT projects but also have extensive client facing experience at a high level

Requirements:

• Highly experienced in project management
• Client service focused
• Experience using project management, portfolio management and IT governance tools.
• Experience in managing the end-to-end delivery of multi work stream/complex projects( Datacentre migration, Desktop Rollout, Securities projects, or IT implementations ..ETC)
• Strong vendor management skills and experience
• Credible and persuasive, with influencing skills
• Proficiency in using management software tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira)

Please call 0207 422 9374 or email to yyuan@mcgregor-boyall.com if you need to find out more

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Interim Operations Support Manager – SAP/Trading/Settlement/Accounting
McGregor Boyall are delighted to be working with one of the largest Global brands who are on the lookout for an Interim Operations Support Manager for SAP/ Trading, Settlement, Accounting

• Day rate contract - £300 a day
• Outside of IR35 (LTD company or Umbrella company acceptable)
• Initial 3-month contract
• Canary Wharf

Ideal requirements:
• The Operations Support Lead will be responsible for overseeing the support service for two business critical SAP instances. These support financial Settlement and Accounting for the organisations Trading division
• Candidate must have strong Relationship Management skills as be working with Senior Business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of SAP ECC, Financial Accounting (FI), Materials Management (MM), and BW HANA is beneficial.

Overview:
The Operations Support Manager provides overall leadership, control and decision-making for specific operations support teams, taking a strategic focus to ensure relevant services meet agreed service levels and are delivered in line with agreed budgets.
Activities include providing technical knowledge and leadership in the specific operations support activities covered by the teams, and ensuring necessary technical training, awareness and experience levels are maintained.
The role also provides reports and management information on service performance and drives continual service improvement activities, making recommendations for improvements based on past performance, forecast demands and information from support teams.
The role acts as a secondary escalation point and works closely with Service Delivery Managers, to manage service performance and stay aware of the evolving requirements of the business and any changes to service levels and ensure any changes to service levels are communicated to the relevant teams.

Qualifications:
ITIL Foundation Certificate (V2 or V3), plus any ITIL Intermediate or Practitioner Certificate (V2 or V3) Competencies Change management IT operations Problem management Service desk and incident management

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

£500/ £550 a day
x2 Senior IT Project Manager (Inside IR35)
A fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Manager within Design and Engineering (D&E), with a background in the implementation of Data Management Solutions/Systems, has become available.
This role is for a Data Management Solution (DMS) Senior Project Manager to manage the delivery of a dedicated workstream within the overall programme, utilising implementation teams, both offshore and onshore.
Role Responsibility

• This role is to provide overall project management for the implementation and deployment of the Data Management Solution (DMS) applications within the overall programme. The DMS will be hosted in the AWS Platform.
• You will be responsible for managing a number of 3^rd party suppliers who are contracted to the organisation with a contributing role to the design, development and deployment of the applications.
• You will liaise with your counterparts across the programme in order to deliver on the strategic priorities of the overall programme, i.e. how the application deployment activity interacts with other Products, Projects or initiatives across the programme and the wider business.
• You will work closely with the 3^rd party development teams both onshore and offshore to ensure that all blockers or issues are being dealt with in a timely fashion.
• You will support the team in their use of collaboration tools, ensuring good housekeeping and best practice are always maintained. You will also be key in organising those spaces and ensuring the ceremonies of the sprint and planning processes are completed efficiently and on time, where appropriate.
• This role will require communication with internal and external parties, so you should be able to communicate clearly, both formally and informally with your direct team, counterparts, and stakeholders. This role will require working closely with other project managers in order to coordinate and align the application deployment activity with the overall programme roadmap.
• You will support the Programme Manager and the Solution Director in dealing with stakeholders and dependencies.

Are you the right candidate?

• Demonstrable professional development with a recognised project management qualification such as Prince2 or MSP.
• Extensive relevant experience working on projects/programmes, and a substantial period (s) of managing projects to successful outcomes, leading teams, planning, problem solving, progress monitoring, managing risk, and budget or resource responsibility.
• Working knowledge of the project lifecycle, products, techniques and methodologies and approaches and the understanding of how to best apply to the situation.
• Excellent and well-practiced communication (verbal, written, listening), inter-personal and influencing skills with the ability to bridge specialism and business through user-friendly language.
• Ability to effectively deal with difficult stakeholders, navigate ambiguous, changeable, and complex environments and achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including MS Project, and MS PowerPoint, with experience in manipulating data to make it meaningful for different audiences.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Business Analyst Job Spec

Overall objectives of the job:

We are currently progressing with a large change portfolio. The portfolio covers both changes to IT systems as well as business process changes.

Due to this, a business analyst with experience of delivering business and IT change is required.
Requirements

Background and experience necessary:

• Business Analysis experience working in Business and IT change projects
• Knowledge and experience of delivery on Waterfall projects
• Knowledge and experience on Agile (SCRUM) projects is desirable
• Experience of engaging with senior stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of projects
• Banking experience

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• Fulfil the role of Business Analyst on Change Projects (likely to be multiple concurrent projects)
• Work with stakeholders to elicit and analyse their requirements
• Delivery of requirement documentation, models and traceability matrices
• Support solution design ensuring that it fully aligns with business requirements and delivers business value
• Stakeholder management

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

McGregor Boyall are pleased to be recruiting for a Communications Coordinator for one of the largest Housing Associations based in Ealing.

The organisation has over 400 staff whilst growing due to a recent acquisition it is presenting the opportunity to be a part of a culture that devotes training and ongoing development as part of their drive to learn programme, Communications Coordinator you will truly have the exposure to continuous training in a friendly and forward thinking environment.

Everyone at the organisation has a Professional Development Plan, which helps you and your manager to identify and plan how you’ll gain new skills and experiences and achieve your career goals as well as a one paid for subscription to a professional body that is relevant to your role.

The company comes with a plethora of benefits including:

• Competitive salaries that are regularly benchmarked to keep up with current market rates.
• 27 days paid annual leave moving to 30 days after 2 years continual service.
• The opportunity to buy and sell up to five days’ of annual leave each year.
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Enhanced family friendly leave schemes.
• A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme: matching a contribution of 5% of your monthly salary with another 9% by us.
• Interest free travel loans for annual season ticket holders using public transport, cyclists and annual car parking fees.
• The use of Enterprise Car Club cars if you need to drive to a different location to do your job (London-based colleagues only).
• A great office environment which offers a hangout area with table tennis, comfy sofas and TVs. We also have shower facilities at our London offices for the keen athletes out there.
• Weekly yoga classes and a range of other sports, wellbeing and general social clubs, with events that everyone can get involved in throughout the year.

The role

Within their communications team they have a busy internal design team who work across print, digital and 3D collateral, producing everything from social media videos to estate signage, from umbrellas to sales brochures. The Coordinator manages the processes that make this possible, booking in jobs for the design team, and seeing individual projects through from start to finish. S/he also supports our Events team in delivering our company conferences

Our communications support our core corporate priorities: to deliver excellent customer experience every time; to be a high performing business; to provide more homes and great places to live; and to be a great place to work.

The Design & Production Coordinator will act as a point of contact for colleagues across the business, supporting them in their roles.

The ideal candidate combines enthusiasm, experience and expertise in production, with operational and commercial nous. This is a key role in a busy team.

In particular:

· Manage the workflow and workload of our in-house design team, to deliver excellent customer experience to colleagues across the business (to be clear – this is not line managing the designers, it is managing their workflow)

· Work with the Head of Communications and the Design team to deliver an in-house design centre of excellence, with published processes and SLAs

· Engage with and manage external partners as appropriate/necessary in order to meet increased workload or help colleagues achieve results that are consistent with the work we produce internally

· Play a leading and proactive role in the rollout and ongoing guardianship of the Catalyst brand

· Manage production of branded materials across the business

· Manage production projects (eg updating signage on Catalyst properties)

· Advise and support colleagues on the brand guidelines, ensuing brand integrity and standards are consistent across the business

· Support the events team in delivering our summer and winter conferences (up to about 0.3 of your role at the busiest times)

· Manage the print production process, commissioning external printers and ensuring quality and value for money

· Manage our ‘Print on Demand’ service, giving colleagues access to pre-made collateral

· Develop, manage and update the company's image library, including ensuring colleagues are aware of, and follow, our image consent requirements

· Commission external photographers/videographers/other suppliers where approporiate

· Ensure all procurement procedures are met when sourcing and contracting suppliers

· Work to an annual budget

· Act as advocate and ambassador for the People and Culture directorate at all times

· Suggest, seek and implement improvements to existing processes and products

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My leading banking client are looking to bring on a Business Manager to join their Trading & Flows Sales business. The role requires someone to bring strong strategic oversight and collaboration across multiple business lines.

Candidates must have:

• Extensive investment banking experience within top tier organisations.
• Strong experience within a business management capacity.
• Broad knowledge of Fixed Income, Trading & Sales buinesses.
• Experience working in global business functions and various timezones.
• Exposure to working front to back and strong grasp of risk management practices and controls.
• Co-ordinate the strategic delivery, planning and projects on behalf of the business.
• Collaborative in approach as will have to partner with peer Product Business Managers.
• Drive control & governance activities to ensure risks are mitigated.
• Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My leading financial services organisation are looking to bring on a Strategic Portfolio Support Officer (PMO) to join their commerical banking business to embed new ways of working.

Candidates must have:

• Strong global banking experience within a PMO function.
• Previous experience working within a strategic change environment.
• Experience of preparing Board level packs and associated materials
• Suported multiple governance forums from Design Authority to Finance
• Support the standardisation and enhancement of programme management reporting
• Ability to present complex issues confidentially and concisely to senior management using simple language to accommodate globally distributed stakeholders.
• Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Pro-active and delivery focused.
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My leading commercial bank are looking to bring on a PMO Planning & Reporting Manager to work across a Transformation portfolio to help transform the way the business currently delivers change.

Role Requirements:

• Manage the overall PMO planning & reporting - this person needs to understand & manage the end to end the processes across the transformation portfolio.
• Work to enhance reporting governance and tools (e.g. data quality, governance, processes and tools). Must ensure they are fit for purpose, easy to update and provide the necessary depth of information.
• Support the stakeholders in portfolio delivery - track portfolio development/implementation and manage and deliver on-time and on-budget.
• Provide leadership on programme outcomes, ensure scope of work is managed under change control and the progress is well documented to support exec decision.
• Will be contributing to - reports, governance models, processes design and set up, stakeholder communication and relationship management strategy and content.

Candidates must have experience in:

• PMO of complex programmes/organisations.
• Using different reporting tools and setting up governance.
• Commercial banking experience
• Strong BA skills (problem solving, info gathering & analysis)
• Impeccable communication skills.
• Practical experience managing change initiatives.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Key Responsibilities;

• Majority of the responsibility will be to support Cloud which is a top priority to the organisation
• Responsible for the management & delivery of the multivendor strategy - more relationship management focussed but will still be required to negotiate
• Supporting the Head of Procurement and will have to apply deep sourcing expertise to create & deliver continually robust category plans.

Experience Required:

• Strong category manager (5 years experience)
• Strong stakeholder management & engagement skills
• Great communication skills
• Experience managing big global vendors and good negotiation skills
• Experience working with Cloud vendors (Desired)
• Financial services background (Desired but not necessary)

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My leading global investment bank are looking to bring on a Portfolio PMO Analyst to join their International Change PMO.

Candidates should have:

• Extensive investment banking experience.
• Strong PMO skills and working in global PMO functions.
• Exposure to regulatory change initiatives.
• Must have worked in a global PMO role
• Portfolio level experience on financial management, scope control & RAID metrics.
• Ability to manage and coordinate activities and resources in a project life cycle.
• Excellent financial analysis & tracking skills. (includes variance analysis, forecast vs actuals).
• Strong analytical skills to be able to interpret and synthesize complex business and technical environments to scope and control project work which aggregates at portfolio level
• Ability to identify and correlate dependencies between projects and plans
• Excellent senior stakeholder engagement skills (will be regularly consulting with delivery partners and stakeholders on performance and strategy).
• Degree or equivalent level education and/or professional project management qualification e.g. Prince 2, PMI, Six Sigma
• Excellent proficiency with MS Office suite and proficient with SharePoint, Clarity, PlanView

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My leading global investment bank are looking to bring on a Portfolio Optimization Consultant to join their International Change Portfolio PMO.

Candidates should have:

• Extensive investment banking experience.
• Strong PMO skills and working in global PMO functions.
• Portfolio level experience on financial management, scope control & RAID metrics.
• Ability to manage and coordinate activities and resources in a project life cycle.
• Excellent financial analysis & tracking skills. (includes variance analysis, forecast vs actuals).
• Strong analytical skills to be able to interpret and synthesize complex business and technical environments to scope and control project work which aggregates at portfolio level
• Ability to identify and correlate dependencies between projects and plans
• Excellent senior stakeholder engagement skills (will be regularly consulting with delivery partners and stakeholders on performance and strategy).
• Degree or equivalent level education and/or professional project management qualification e.g. Prince 2, PMI, Six Sigma
• Excellent proficiency with MS Office suite and proficient with SharePoint, Clarity, PlanView

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.