Project Manager

Colibri Digital; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Colibri Digital is seeking a highly skilled Client facing Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of complex, high-risk projects, ranging from single-site to global deployments. You will ensure all projects meet strict time, cost, and quality standards by utilizing industry best practices.

As a Project Manager you will lead planning, governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement across departments and third parties to deliver value for global brands and public sector clients.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering multiple concurrent complex projects in a fast-paced consultancy environment.
• Knowledge of and experience delivering Microsoft/AWS technologies, solutions and services.
• Knowledge of planning, monitoring and governance techniques including risks, issues, dependencies and decisions management.
• Track record of delivering large and complex change programmes/projects.
• Proven ability in stakeholder management including C-level executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality measures, considering dependencies and resource requirements.
• Own and monitor project plans; maintain governance arrangements for delivery.
• Document and manage scope, budgets, risks, issues and quality requirements.
• Control project scope while managing customer expectations within the commercial model.
• Provide regular project health checks, highlight reports, and status updates to customers.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Governance & planning

Microsoft/AWS technologies

Change management

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled Client facing Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of complex, high-risk projects, ranging from single-site to global deployments. You will ensure all projects meet strict time, cost, and quality standards by utilizing industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads planning and delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality measures, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements.
• Owns, develops, and proactively monitors project plans.
• Consolidates and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities, issues, and quality requirements)
• Tightly controls project scope whilst meeting and managing customers broader expectations within the commercial model
• Responsible for provision and control of project documentation as a primary reference point for tracking and audit purposes
• Monitors project budget, forecast and actual costs, providing early warning of any deviation
• Work with Senior Commercial Accountants to ensure timely Revenue booking, accurate cost forecasting and tracking across the project
• Develops, implements, and updates project resource allocation plans (RBAs), working with Professional Services to confirm staff availability and scheduling
• Engages and manages resources from all necessary Nasstar departments, customer and third parties on a matrix management basis
• Establishes and maintains governance arrangements for the delivery of projects, defining clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities, which align with organisational practice
• Provides input into project health check reviews as required
• Works with Delivery Support to suggest improvement areas for the project delivery methodology
• Identifies, logs and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities), planning and implementing responses to them and responding to other issues that affect projects. Reports and escalates risks as required to appropriate level
• Produces highlight reports and presentations to internal and external customers on project status to aid successful delivery of project
• Develops, maintains, and applies quality management processes for project activities and outputs
• Secures the provision of goods and services needed for projects from internal and/or external providers, monitoring compliance and managing variances
• Works with Service Transition to ensure the timely transition of project outputs into live services
• Manages changes to project scope, timeline, budget in a controlled, transparent manner with agreement of customer and relevant stakeholders
• Able to clearly set direction and align expectations across all stakeholder cohorts.
• Manages internal and external stakeholders, and taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience of delivering multiple concurrent & complex projects in a fast-paced consultancy environment.
• Knowledge of and experience in delivering Microsoft/ AWS technologies, solutions and services.
• Knowledge of using techniques for planning, monitoring and governance including risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions management.
• A track record of managing delivery of large and complex change programmes/projects.
• Proven ability in stakeholder management including C-level executives.
• Remote-first working with flexibility around client needs
• Projects with global brands & public sector leaders, working on real-world impact.
• Exclusive access to AWS & Databricks certifications, training, and partner tools.
• A collaborative culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Private health insurance.
• Competitive salary and long-term growth opportunities.

About Colibri Digital

We are passionate about helping businesses navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies. We create well-structured, secure, scalable solutions at speed to provide the foundation for groundbreaking change.