Senior Project Manager

Computacenter; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex projects within a dynamic team. This role involves managing multiple projects, ensuring effective communication, and delivering high-quality outcomes that meet customer expectations. You will oversee the entire project lifecycle, applying your expertise in project management methodologies to drive success. If you are passionate about leading teams and delivering exceptional results in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a company that values teamwork and supports your professional growth while working on innovative IT solutions.

Qualifications

• Trained in project management methodologies like Prince2 and Agile.
• Demonstrable track record of delivering complex, high-risk projects.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex projects and manage project controls effectively.
• Build and manage teams, ensuring high-quality project outcomes.

Skills

Project Management

Prince2

Agile Techniques

Leadership Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Education

Project Management Accreditation

Tools

IT Infrastructure Services

Job description

Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Manchester, UK - Birmingham | Job-ID: 210369 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

Life on the team

We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a Senior Project Manager UK into our thriving Group Professional Services (GPS) organisation within Computacenter.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Project Manager (SPM) in Computacenter’s Projects & Programmes Practice you will be responsible for delivering complex and/or high risk, end-to-end projects. 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). Your scope of activity will range from the development of the delivery approach to the successful delivery of assignments from inception through to completion. 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.

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.

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.

What you’ll need

• Familiarity with the latest technologies and the ability to articulate the benefits in line with Computacenter’s propositions.
• 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.
• Exposure delivering a range of IT projects (e.g. End User Deployment, Desktop and Application Virtualisation, Application/Software Development, Cloud and Data Centres, and Networking & Security).
• Demonstrable leadership skills and personal gravitas.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Able to apply a variety of influencing skills to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders.
• 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.

Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 20,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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