Senior Project Manager

WM Reply; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm based in Manchester is seeking a Senior Project Manager. The ideal candidate will plan and deliver projects, manage project teams, and ensure client satisfaction. Essential skills include excellent communication and experience in IT/Tech consultancy, particularly within the Microsoft 365 space. Benefits include health insurance, a pension match up to 5%, and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Health insurance

Pension match up to 5%

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills - a real people-person.
• You are highly organised, proactive and a problem solver.
• You are excited to deliver solutions that bring value to our customers.
• Experience of working for an IT/Tech Consultancy.
• Experience of managing multiple projects at one time – ideally within the Microsoft 365 space.
• An understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Plan, resource and deliver projects with our portfolio of household-name clients.
• Manage and motivate our skilled, dynamic project teams.
• Take ownership of project documentation.
• Manage project scope, project health and client expectations.
• Work with the project management capability team to improve PMO processes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Highly organised

Proactive problem solver

Experience in IT/Tech Consultancy

Experience managing multiple projects

Understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Hybrid working – Based in Manchester

Help empower millions to achieve more by joining a world-class Microsoft consultancy.

WM Reply is the Reply Group company specialising in improving employees day-to-day lives through modern workplace solutions. We support our clients from beginning to end; designing and building their solution and easing adoption. We are recognised as leaders within Sitecore, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and the products within such as SharePoint, Power Platform, Viva Engage and Microsoft Teams. A Microsoft Gold Partner five times over. We have a colourful team who are famous for their imagination, delivery, passion for technology and, most importantly, their pride in delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan, resource and deliver projects with our portfolio of household-name clients.

• Manage and motivate our skilled, dynamic project teams.

• Take ownership of project documentation – project plans, reports, RAID logs, RACI, meeting minutes.

• Manage project scope, project health and client expectations.

• Work with the project management capability team to review, improve and revise PMO processes.

What’s needed?

• Excellent communication skills - a real people-person.

• You are highly organised, proactive and a problem solver.

• You are excited to deliver solutions that bring value to our customers.

• Experience of working for an IT/Tech Consultancy

• Experience of managing multiple projects at one time – ideally within the Microsoft 365 space.

• An understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies.

Our culture and benefits

• In our annual employee survey employees rated their overall satisfaction at a 6.4/7 on average. Our people are our most valued asset, so keeping them happy is a priority. We promote from within by default, support people when times are hard and celebrate hard when times are good.

• Innovation is treasured and celebrated. With experts across the full stack of Microsoft technology there’s always something to learn or new to try out.

• We are social by design – with hybrid working enabled across all roles you can expect plenty of working from home but also regular visits to spend time with colleagues.

• We’re very proud of the diversity at WM Reply. For example, 40% of our staff are female, representation goes from junior roles to the top including our CEO. We’re always interested to hear from candidates from different walks of life.

Note: Check out this video to get a better idea of our company culture.

Benefits

If you’re successful you can expect benefits such as health insurance, pension match up to 5% and flexible working hours.