Senior Project Manager

World Wide Technology; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

World Wide Technology is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large, complex technology projects, aligning multiple work streams with strategic objectives. The role emphasizes disciplined budgeting, risk control, and proactive stakeholder engagement to ensure successful, on-time delivery.

The candidate will drive governance, communications, and performance reporting while coordinating cross-functional teams and customer relationships.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' progressive experience in a related field.
• Experience in technology industry.
• Experience managing client expectations, vendor terms, and internal resource alignment.
• Demonstrated leadership in providing project deliverables.
• Ability to manage budgets, analyze financial reports, and track profitability across projects.
• Skilled at navigating complex challenges with analytical rigor.
• Understand difference between a risk and issue, and skills required to drive risk and issue resolution.
• Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines.
• Proficiency in managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines.
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in influencing and leading internal and external teams.
• Ability to influence, motivate, and guide cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to engage clients, teams, and executives.
• Proficiency with project management software.
• Experience delivering project management in a professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Manages day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple large, complex projects with multiple work streams.
• Create in-depth WBS with interdependencies and defined critical path.
• Develop and execute an efficient internal and external communication strategy for management levels.
• Monitor and report project progress to stakeholders.
• Build and strengthen relationships with customers and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain resource plans for effective allocation across the portfolio.
• Utilize PM tools and techniques to improve execution and drive efficiencies.
• Implement engagement review and quality assurance procedures per our methodology.
• Ensure profitable and successful execution of engagements as measured by regional goals and customer feedback.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope.
• Effectively create and execute risk management plans.
• Manage and analyze profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
• Understand and manage key project financial components to keep projects within budget.
• Oversee quality and timely execution of deliverables across projects.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality assurance

Job description

The Sr .Project Manager is responsible for managing large and complex technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. The Sr Project Manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple and large complex projects with multiple work streams
• Ability to create in depth WBS with interdependencies and a defined critical path
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills; Develop and execute an efficient internal and external communication strategy for ensuring communication with all levels of management within the team
• Monitors and reports on project progress to stakeholders
• Builds and strengthens relationships with the customer and stakeholders (internal and external)
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of resource plans ensuring effective resource allocation and distribution across portfolio of projects
• Utilizes project management tools and techniques to improve execution and drive efficiencies.
• Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology
• Ensures profitable and successful execution of all assigned engagements as measured by regional goals and customer feedback
• Proactively manages changes in project scope
• Effectively creates and executes risk management plans
• Manages and analyzes profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects
• Understands and manages key project financial components to ensure projects are delivered within budget
• Responsible for quality and timely execution of deliverables across projects

Work Experience

• A minimum of 8 years' progressive experience in a related field
• Working knowledge of both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management, in a technology industry.
• Experience managing client expectations, vendor terms, and internal resource alignment
• Demonstrated leadership in providing project deliverables as assigned.
• Ability to manage budgets, analyze financial reports, and track profitability across projects.
• Skilled at navigating complex challenges with analytical rigor
• Understand difference between a risk and issue, and skills required to drive risk and issue resolution.
• Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines.
• Proficiency in managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in effectively influencing and leading internal and external teams.
• Ability to influence, motivate, and guide cross-functional teams
• Excellent problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to engage clients, teams, and executives
• Proficiency with project management software.
• Experience delivering project management in a professional services environment