Project Manager

Advania UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

Advania UK is seeking a Project Manager to lead technology projects for clients, ensuring delivery within scope, time, budget and quality. You will coordinate internal teams, customers and third-party suppliers from initiation to handover, with clear governance and proactive risk management.

The role offers a hybrid working policy in the UK, allowing a balance of office and remote work. The salary ranges from £60,000 to £70,000 per year, depending on experience, with opportunities to work on

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience delivering technology projects in a client/supplier environment.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects of varying budget and complexity.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced technical consultancy or managed services environments.
• Strong commercial awareness with ability to manage profitability, change control, risks and commitments.
• Proven ability to work confidently with technical consultants and executive sponsors.
• Able to challenge constructively, drive decisions and hold stakeholders accountable.
• Experience of Microsoft Modern Workplace, Cloud or Digital Workplace projects is highly desirable.
• Professional project management qualifications are beneficial, but are not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage technology projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timescales, budget and quality standards.
• Work with customers and stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, deliverables, success criteria and acceptance processes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, delivery schedules, resource plans, budgets, RAID logs and governance documentation.
• Coordinate project teams across technical, commercial, operational and customer-facing workstreams.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, progress reviews and steering groups, ensuring actions and decisions are recorded and followed through.
• Provide clear and timely project reporting, including progress, milestones, financial performance, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating appropriately where required.
• Manage project change control, ensuring that impacts on scope, cost, time, quality and resources are understood and agreed.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Fast-paced environments

Commercial awareness

Executive sponsorship

Decision making

MS Modern Workplace/Cloud projects

Job description

Project Manager

As Project Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of technology projects for our customers, ensuring work is planned, governed and delivered to agreed scope, time, budget and quality standards.

You will coordinate internal teams, customers and third-party suppliers across the project lifecycle, from initiation and discovery through to implementation, service acceptance and operational handover. You will provide clear communication, maintain effective governance and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and change.

Salary & Benefits

The budgeted salary for this role is between £60,000 and £70,000 a year, depending on experience.

Hybrid working

We recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.

We operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy.

Responsibilities

• Manage technology projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timescales, budget and quality standards.
• Work with customers and stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, deliverables, success criteria and acceptance processes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, delivery schedules, resource plans, budgets, RAID logs and governance documentation.
• Coordinate project teams across technical, commercial, operational and customer-facing workstreams.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, progress reviews and steering groups, ensuring actions and decisions are recorded and followed through.
• Provide clear and timely project reporting, including progress, milestones, financial performance, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating appropriately where required.
• Manage project change control, ensuring that impacts on scope, cost, time, quality and resources are understood and agreed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable experience delivering technology projects in a client / supplier environment.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects of varying budget and complexity.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced technical consultancy or managed services environments.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to manage project profitability, change control, risks and contractual commitments.
• Proven ability to work confidently with technical consultants, senior client stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Able to challenge constructively, drive decisions and hold stakeholders accountable when required.
• Experience of Microsoft Modern Workplace, Cloud or Digital Workplace projects is highly desirable.
• Professional project management qualifications are beneficial, but are not essential.

Please note, we may require you to obtain security clearance (SC) in the future, so for that reason you will need to be a British passport holder with 5 years residency in the UK to be considered for this role.

About Us:

We are the tech company with people at heart.

At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

As part of our commitment to our clients we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment.