Project Manager

Computacenter PLC; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high-risk, large-scale Data Centre build projects. The role involves managing multi-skilled teams, ensuring project success, and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships. Candidates should have a solid background in project management methodologies like Prince2 or Agile, along with experience in delivering complex assignments in a dynamic environment. This position will likely require significant international travel and offers the opportunity to make a considerable impact within the business.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex, high-risk assignments involving large-scale Data Centres or High Performance Computing.
• Ability to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Understand and adhere to methodologies for delivering Professional Services engagements.
• Ensure project outcomes minimize risk and optimize contribution.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships across Computacenter, suppliers, and customers.

Skills

Project management methodology

Emotional Intelligence

Stakeholder relationship management

Education

Accreditation in project management (e.g. Prince2, Agile)

Job description

We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager, with experience of delivering large-scale International Data Centre or High Performance Computing build projects, into our thriving Group Professional Services (GPS) organisation within Computacenter UK. This is an exciting role in a dynamic and fast-moving environment that is likely to require significant international travel. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the delivery of multiple Data Centre technologies rather than point solutions, the leadership of large multi-skilled teams, and the gravitas expected from a leader in their field.

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 4,200 highly skilled professionals, we possess deep expertise in core infrastructure technologies, industry-standard architecture, and project management methodologies. Operating across three continents, we serve some of the world’s largest brands, driving technological change in a vibrant and rapidly evolving digital landscape.

As a Senior Project Manager (SPM) or Programme Manager (PGM) in Computacenter’s Projects & Programmes Practice you will be responsible for delivering complex and/or high risk, end-to-end solutions. You may deliver multiple projects simultaneously or significant work-streams on larger projects and programmes. The projects could be stand‑alone 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 Computacenter’s and the Customer’s requirements and needs.

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 high-quality 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, you’re expected to understand and articulate to customers both what Computacenter sells and delivers and have a good working knowledge of the technology/solution.

Responsibilities

• 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 end-to-end 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Trained and accredited in project management methodology, for example Prince2, Agile Techniques.
• A demonstrable track record of delivering complex, high‑risk assignments/multiple successful outcomes with focus on large‑scale Data Centres or High Performance Computing.
• 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.