Senior Project Manager

SADA UK; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee mid to large client deployments, including change management and technical deployments for Google Workspace. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in managing IT projects, alongside excellent communication and organizational skills. You'll be a key player in a dynamic, service-oriented environment that promotes growth and collaboration.

Benefits

Paid holidays

Private medical insurance

Pension match

Performance-based bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing IT deployment projects.
• 3+ years Google Workspace implementation experience.
• 2+ years coaching project teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple client deployments ensuring delivery according to scope.
• Provide progress reports and maintain logs for issues and risks.
• Manage project health status and collaborate with sales for requirements.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Team management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will oversee the deployment of mid to large client deployments - this includes multiple work streams such as change management, technical deployment, and daily project management activities for Google Workspace and affiliated partner products. In addition, you may be assigned Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects as needed.

The ideal candidate will be communicative, enthusiastic, and eager to take on responsibility and learn new skills. Our company is a prime environment if you enjoy working in a fast-paced organization and participating in a creative, fun, and teamwork-oriented environment. We are looking for those who want to grow with us for the long term in a dynamic, service-oriented technical environment.

Responsibilities:

During Deployments

• Oversee the deployment of multiple mid to large client deployments at a time - this includes concurrent work streams such as change management, technical deployment, and daily project management activities, for Google Workspace and affiliated partners products
• Provide regular reporting on progress to clients throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure that projects are delivered according to scope, budget, and schedule
• Maintain and monitor deployment critical path and communicate issues and risks impacting it internally and externally
• Maintain the issues, risks, decisions, and change logs as well as drive the resolution for all risks and issues
• Be a sounding board and advisor to clients on best practices and managing continuous stakeholder relationships, especially as it relates to follow-on work (FOW)
• Lead the baseline estimation effort and ETCs with the Engineers and Change Managers based on scoped work
• Utilize project management applications to build out project timelines, make assignments, track projects, and use them to appropriately demonstrate project control with clients
• Build documentation around processes and procedures for clients as needed Internally

Internally

• Report into the PMO for status, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
• Manage financial health status and billing details for assigned projects
• Work with sales team members at the start of the project to better understand project requirements and clarify conceptual needs for migrations and executions as needed.
• Bring best practices methodologies to the PMO and help implement them
• Contribute to departmental goals, initiatives, and community of practice
• Promote and project our commitment as a customer-focused organization

Pathway to Success

Be prepared, work with intentional effort, and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured annually by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks.

Required Travel - Up to 20-30% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Customer-Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, and other times weekly or bi-weekly. Common touch points occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including Engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant team members. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of industry experience managing IT deployment projects and managing Engineers and Change Management teams
• 3+ years Google Workspace implementation experience
• Strong Google Workspace functional knowledge
• Previous experience working in project management or a project lead role within the professional services industry
• 2+ years of coaching and advising project team members on Google Workspace implementations
• Experience working and coordinating with a Change Management team
• Experience managing project activities/teams and application of structured implementation project methodologies and tools
• Must possess deep knowledge of working within a PMO structure
• Good communication skills capable of maintaining strong relationships
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Team management and leadership skills
• Documentation management
• Attention to detail even under pressure
• Time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines
• Experience working with scheduling and/or work management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, or MS Project

Recommended Qualifications:

• Google Workspace certification(s)
• Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• PMP or other PM-related certification
• Agile experience or Scrum Certification
• Previous experience in professional services or consulting industry

About SADA An Insight company

Values: We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal-opportunity employer.

Benefits: Paid holidays, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, referral bonuses, private medical insurance, private dental insurance, life cover, income protection, pension match, professional development reimbursement, as well as Google-certified training programs.

Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 15 years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core:3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.

SADA is a remote-first company. Most roles are remote unless stated otherwise in the job description.

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