Senior Project Manager

Computacenter (UK) Ltd; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter (UK) Ltd in Livermore, CA is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex customer deployments from initiation through delivery and closure. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across Sales, Engineering, Production, and Logistics, ensuring alignment on scope, schedule, and outcomes.

The role requires strong communication, proactive risk management, and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of project management experience, preferably in IT infrastructure or data centers.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation to delivery and closure with scope and schedule alignment.
• Serve as primary customer contact or coordinate with a Program Manager for broader relationship.
• Build trust through professionalism, responsiveness, and transparency.
• Guide cross-functional teams through influence without direct reporting authority.
• Monitor risks, issues, and dependencies; report status to stakeholders.
• Ensure documentation, approvals, and readiness across production, logistics, and delivery.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Financial management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PMP certification

Tools

Enterprise project management systems

Job description

220417-en_US

About the role

The Senior Project Manager leads customer deployment projects from initiation through delivery and closure. Depending on the size and structure of the engagement, the Senior Project Manager may serve as the primary customer contact or work under the direction of a Program Manager who owns the broader customer relationship. In either model, the Senior Project Manager owns project-level planning, fulfillment oversight, shipping readiness, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and confirmation of successful delivery. Working across customers, Sales, engineering, production and integration, logistics, and other delivery functions, the Senior Project Manager establishes project direction, drives accountability, and ensures customer commitments are understood and actively managed. The role has no direct reports but leads cross-functional project teams through influence, sound judgment, and disciplined execution. Success requires a strong service orientation, high professionalism, proactive communication, and the ability to manage multiple customer deployments with competing priorities and dependencies.

What you'll be doing

Customer and Project Leadership

• Lead assigned projects from initiation through delivery and closure, maintaining alignment on scope, schedule, priorities, responsibilities, and outcomes.
• Serve as the primary customer contact or, when a Program Manager owns the broader relationship, lead project-level communication and delivery in alignment with that role.
• Build customer trust through professionalism, responsiveness, transparency, and consistent follow-through.
• Lead cross-functional teams through influence, setting priorities and driving accountability without direct reporting authority.

Fulfillment Planning and Readiness

• Monitor open orders and manage schedule requirements, fulfillment requests, priorities, and delivery commitments received from Sales and Professional Services.
• Maintain integrated plans covering technical design approval, production, shipping, delivery, resources, dependencies, and customer readiness.
• Confirm international compliance readiness with Sales before applicable orders advance.
• Ensure order documentation, technical approvals, production requirements, logistics details, and site readiness are complete and aligned to required dates.

Production, Shipping, and Delivery Oversight

• Coordinate production timelines, build requests and supporting documentation
• Partner with production planning teams to monitor progress and resolve schedule, capacity, quality, and readiness issues.
• Confirm production and shipping requirements are satisfied before release, escalating material risks with clear impacts and recommended actions.
• Monitor shipments through delivery, provide tracking and logistics updates to Professional Services and customers, and confirm onsite receipt before completion.

Project Controls and Communication

• Monitor performance against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and customer commitments.
• Maintain accurate project, order, production, shipment, risk, issue, and decision information in designated systems.
• Provide customers, account teams, Program Managers, and delivery leadership with clear status, risk, milestone, and action reporting.
• Assess changes in scope or priority and communicate impacts to timing, cost, resources, dependencies, and customer expectations.

Closure and Continuous Improvement

• Validate completion of project requirements, obtain customer acceptance, and complete required documentation, financial, and closure activities.
• Lead project health checks, recovery efforts, and lessons-learned reviews as appropriate.
• Drive practical improvements to delivery processes, controls, reporting, and cross-functional ways of working.

What you have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 7+ years of project management experience, preferably within data centers, IT infrastructure, technology deployment, or professional services.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, concurrent projects and leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Project management certification, such as PMP, preferred
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Strong service orientation and commitment to responsiveness, quality, accountability, and customer outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, create alignment, and hold cross-functional stakeholders accountable.
• High professionalism, business judgment, and credibility in customer and leadership interactions.
• Strong project planning, financial management, fulfillment oversight, risk management, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to oversee multiple projects, orders, delivery timelines, and dependencies simultaneously.
• Ability to anticipate risks, assess business and customer impacts, and drive timely resolution.
• Working knowledge of technology deployment, design, configuration, production, integration, logistics, and service-delivery practices.
• Proficiency with enterprise project, order, configuration, and deployment-management systems.
• Ability to establish practical, repeatable project controls and drive consistent adoption across teams.
• Ability to travel based on customer and business needs.