Senior Microsoft Cloud Delivery Lead

Core Technology Systems Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home

Office options in London, Manchester,或

Job summary

Core Technology Systems Limited in Manchester is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead multiple complex Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and Modern Workplace projects for strategic customers. You will own delivery, governance and commercial outcomes, coordinating cross-functional teams and reporting to senior stakeholders.

You will mentor other Project Managers, apply PRINCE2 Agile and Scrum practices, and ensure on-time delivery within scope, quality standards and budget.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering multiple concurrent IT transformation and professional services projects.
• Strong customer-facing experience, including engagement with senior stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Extensive project management experience within an MSP, Consultancy or Professional Services environment.
• Proven commercial and financial management experience, including forecasting, change control and margin protection.
• Strong governance, risk, issue and dependency management skills.
• Experience managing internal delivery teams and third-party suppliers.
• Experience managing project budgets, commercials, complex delivery challenges and customer escalations.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong experience managing Microsoft technology projects including Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform and Modern Workplace solutions.

Responsibilities

• Managing multiple concurrent projects and programmes of varying size and complexity across strategic customer accounts.
• Leading project initiation activities, including project stand-up calls with customers and Core technical teams.
• Coordinating project delivery using PRINCE2 Agile and Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, review sessions and regular customer and technical team meetings.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders.
• Advising key stakeholders on development and integration plans.
• Managing change control, including the preparation of change requests, change justifications and commercial scoping.
• Planning and managing projects by defining project scope and schedules, focusing on the regular and timely delivery of value; organising and leading project status and working meetings; preparing and distributing progress reports; managing risks and issues; correcting deviations from plans; and performing delivery planning for assigned projects.
• Team building – promoting team empowerment, ensuring each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution, encouraging a sustainable pace with high levels of quality, and mentoring and supporting project delivery team members.
• Managing project status reporting and financial performance in line with Core's PMO processes by delivering weekly project updates and monthly governance reports to stakeholders, reporting exceptions to project boards, maintaining project financials, and providing accruals and project forecast data.
• Taking ownership of customer escalations and complex delivery challenges, driving resolutions that protect both customer satisfaction and commercial outcomes.
• Ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with agreed quality standards, contractual commitments and organisational governance processes.
• Project administration using PSA and DevOps tools including: Project planning and deliverable tracking; Project backlog and release management; Project risk & issue management; Internal and external resource sourcing and coordination; Coordination of Pilot and UAT project activities; Project governance – budget & escalation management; Timesheet approvals; Budget and financial control.

Skills

IT transformation

Stakeholder management

Governance & risk

Budget management

Communication skills

MS technology

Tools

Azure DevOps

PRINCE2 Agile

Job description

Core Technology Systems Limited in Manchester is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead multiple complex Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and Modern Workplace projects for strategic customers. You will own delivery, governance and commercial outcomes, coordinating cross-functional teams and reporting to senior stakeholders.

You will mentor other Project Managers, apply PRINCE2 Agile and Scrum practices, and ensure on-time delivery within scope, quality standards and budget.