Senior Project Manager 210369
Senior Project Manager 210369
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Location: UK Hatfield UK London UK Manchester UK Birmingham JobID: 210369 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: Project Management
Life on the team
We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a Senior Project Manager 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 Senior Project Manager (SPM) in Computacenters Projects & Programmes Practice you will be responsible for delivering complex and/or high risk endtoend projects. You may deliver multiple projects simultaneously or significant workstreams on 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 required to lead a Project & Portfolio Management Office (PMO). Whatever the assignment you will lead the engagement be responsible for the business outcome and for the overall success of the change activity and will work with our assurance and governance process to ensure the projects or PMO meet Computacenters and the Customers requirements and needs.
Your scope of activity will range from the development of the delivery approach to be used by Computacenter the delivery definition and the successful delivery of assignments from inception through to completion. Delivery of a successful project will include: building and managing your team ensuring the agreed products are delivered effective communication managing project controls (including risk issue customer dependencies and change) and providing a highquality professional outcome to the satisfaction of our customers and other stakeholders. There will be times where you will lead on behalf of the Practice the activities required to create a solution based on a set of customer requirements support managing it through the sales cycle whilst following the appropriate governance process. Presenting to the customer in a compelling way to support the sales team to achieve positive outcome and support our growth agenda.
Your overall responsibility is for meeting the commitments made to customers and internal stakeholders to successfully deliver the assignment you are leading as defined in your terms of reference or project control documentation. These will be delivered alongside the agreed financial outcome of the assignment. In support of this youre expected to understand and articulate to customers both what Computacenter sells and delivers and have a good working knowledge of the technology/solution.
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
- Familiarity with the latest technologies and the ability to articulate the benefits in line with Computacenters propositions.
- Trained and accredited in project management methodology for example Prince2 Agile Techniques.
- A demonstrable track record of delivering complex highrisk assignments/multiple successful outcomes.
- Exposure delivering a range of IT projects (e.g. End User Deployment Desktop and Application Virtualisation Application/Software Development Cloud and Data Centres and Networking & Security).
- Demonstrable leadership skills and personal gravitas.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Able to apply a variety of influencing skills to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders to enable positive assignment outcomes.
- Ability to apply a variety of approaches including Emotional Intelligence with flexibility to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs and to resolve conflicts.
- Understand and be able to articulate the wider context of the project you are leading.
- Ability to articulate the value of project management to internal and external customers.
Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
About us
Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services with about 20000 employees worldwide. 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.
#winningtogether #peoplematter
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
