Senior Project Manager

-; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT service provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and deliver complex, high-risk projects within its Group Professional Services. This role involves managing multiple projects and ensuring they meet customer requirements while fostering strong relationships. Candidates must possess excellent interpersonal skills, be familiar with project management methodologies, and have a successful track record in IT projects. The position offers a dynamic work environment with growth opportunities.

Benefits

Friendly and open working environment

Team-oriented culture

Diverse career opportunities

Qualifications

• Trained and accredited in project management methodology.
• Ability to articulate the benefits of technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to maintain relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex and high-risk projects end-to-end.
• Lead PMO operations and manage team dynamics.
• Align projects with customer requirements and deliver value.
• Manage assignment scope and understand commercial baselines.
• Create and manage relationships across stakeholders.

Skills

Familiarity with the latest technologies

Project management methodology (Prince2, Agile)

Demonstrable track record of delivering complex assignments

Exposure to IT projects (End User Deployment, Networking)

Leadership skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Influencing skills

Emotional Intelligence

Excellent literacy and numeracy skills

Job description

Location

UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Manchester, UK - Birmingham

Job-ID

213533

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.

So who are we?

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.

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). 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.

Your scope of activity will range from the development of the delivery approach to be used by Computacenter, the delivery definition and 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. 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.

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 and 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. These are typically defined and agreed with the sales team and other key stakeholders in the statement of work and cost model.

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, to enable positive assignment outcomes.
• 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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