Junior IT Project Manager – Sweden (Onsite)

HCL Technologies Limited; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 420,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited in Gothenburg, Sweden is seeking a Junior Project Manager to support and manage technology projects from initiation through closure, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, quality, cost, and governance requirements.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers while maintaining effective project controls and communication, with 2–4 years of relevant experience and fluent Swedish.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of project management or project coordination experience
• Good understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle
• Experience managing schedules, milestones, actions, risks, issues, and dependencies
• Understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies
• Experience coordinating multiple technical and business stakeholders
• Good customer-facing communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to prepare clear project status reports and management updates
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organisational, and time-management skills
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
• Working knowledge of MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and track project plans covering activities, milestones, dependencies, resources, and deliverables.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical and business teams to achieve agreed project objectives.
• Track project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, actions, and dependencies.
• Conduct regular project meetings and ensure decisions and actions are documented and followed through.
• Prepare and distribute clear weekly project status reports to internal and customer stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues early, define mitigation actions, and elevate appropriately.
• Monitor project milestones and ensure deliverables are completed within committed timelines.
• Maintain RAID logs, action trackers, milestone plans, and project governance artefacts.
• Coordinate with technical leads and subject-matter experts to confirm ownership of deliverables and dependencies.
• Support financial tracking, including project effort, resource usage, budgets, and milestone completion.
• Manage scope changes through the agreed change-control process.
• Ensure project activities and deliverables comply with applicable delivery frameworks and governance requirements.
• Maintain proactive communication regarding progress, issues, dependencies, and required decisions.
• Support project closure, handover, lessons learned, documentation, and closure of outstanding actions.

Skills

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk and issue management

Scheduling

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology/Business Management

PRINCE2 Foundation / CAPM / PMP training

ITIL Foundation

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Jira

Confluence

Job description

HCL Technologies Limited in Gothenburg, Sweden is seeking a Junior Project Manager to support and manage technology projects from initiation through closure, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, quality, cost, and governance requirements.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers while maintaining effective project controls and communication, with 2–4 years of relevant experience and fluent Swedish.