Project Manager 204305
Project Manager 204305
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Location: UK Hatfield UK Birmingham UK London UK Reading JobID: 204305 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: Project Management
Life on the team
We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a Project Manager 2 UK into our thriving Group Professional Services (GPS) organisation within Computacenter.
So who are we
Group Professional Services is a dynamic part of Computacenter that integrates our Engineering Consultancy and Project Management practices alongside our expanding Business Solutions portfolio and nearshore/offshore centres. With a team of over 4200 highly skilled professionals we possess deep expertise in core infrastructure technologies industrystandard architecture and project management methodologies. Operating across three continents we serve some of the worlds largest brands driving technological change in a vibrant and rapidly evolving digital landscape.
What youll do
As a Project Manager 2 (PM2 in Computacenters UK Projects Practice you will either manage projects through the entire lifecycle or manage specific workstreams within larger projects and programmes. The projects could be standalone projects or may be part of a Projects & Portfolio Management Office (PMO). You may also be asked to lead less complex PMOs. Your responsibilities could include presales activitiessuch as leading scoping estimating and designing projects or assuring solutionsthrough to delivery and closure.
You will need to understand and manage various commercial models including Fixed Price Time and Materials or Resource on Demand. Successful project delivery will involve building and managing your team ensuring the delivery of agreed products maintaining effective communication managing project controls (including risk issues customer dependencies and change) and providing highquality professional outcomes that satisfy our customers and stakeholders.
Typically you will be responsible for projects with services revenue of up to 1.5 million.
Specific tasks include:
Project Management: Throughout the entire project lifecycle you will be expected to understand and adhere to our methodologies for delivering Professional Services engagements to our customers. Change Management: Own or ensure that the endtoend change process for the assignment is followed to ensure full awareness and adoption of the project outcomes whilst minimizing working at risk/commercial exposure & optimizing our contribution. Business Management: Ensure that projects align with the customer requirements deliver value and are completed efficiently within scope time and budget constraints.
Contract Management: Manage the assignment scope and understand the commercial baseline supporting or leading the development negotiation and agreement of the statement of work and any subsequent changes.
Financial Management: Be responsible for the successful delivery of the assignment to the agreed financial baseline to meet (or exceed) the key performance indicators. These are typically defined and agreed with the sales team and other key stakeholders in the statement of work and cost model.
Relationship Management: During your assignments you will create and manage the stakeholder relationships across Computacenter its suppliers and customers ensuring that a positive and constructive relationship is created and maintained.
People Management: You will be responsible for leading and shaping the team to ensure the successful delivery of your assignment.
What youll need
- Trained in project management methodology for example Prince2 or Agile Techniques.
- A demonstrable track record of delivering lesscomplex large assignments and successful project outcomes.
- Experience of delivering IT Projects e.g. Smart Infrastructure Modern Workplace Desktop rollouts deployments.
- Demonstrable leadership skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Ability to apply Emotional Intelligence with flexibility to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs.
- Ability to apply influencing skills appropriately to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders and to enable positive assignment outcomes.
- Understand the wider context for the Customer and Computacenter of the project you are leading.
- Ability to articulate the value of project management to internal and external customers.
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
Current information for our applicants
Business as usual Not quite. Of course the Corona crisis also presents us with major challenges.
However we are broadly positioned across various industries plan for the long term and have always been flexible in our approach to our customers especially in times of crisis. Our core business is digitisation. We believe that this topic will continue to grow in importance for many companies in both public and private sectors.
Thats why there are still areas of our business with clear hiring requirements and we would like to bring talent like you on board! By the way we have completely virtualised our application process and our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions.
We are still looking forward to getting to know you!
About us
Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. We work at the heart of digitisation advising organisations on IT strategy implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers infrastructures.
We offer a friendly open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.
Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community
Were growing. Were hiring. We encourage. We empower. We support.
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Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Contract
