Senior Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - Steria Recruitment

Steria Recruitment
Steria Recruitment
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Senior Project Manager

6 months contract

Home based but travel to London & Cheltenham when required
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Must have worked for Service Provider so aware of commercial & contract responsibilities._
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Experience of managing complex IT service projects, including IT outsource service transition and transformation._


An exciting opportunity to join our team in a growing ICT Services company with a global portfolio, as a Senior Project Manager.


Role Purpose:


Responsibilities/Accountability:

- manage projects throughout the entire project lifecycle using the Project Management Framework which is based on best practice methodologies and techniques
- lead and manage a geographically dispersed, multicultural project team
- have responsibility for delivering projects to agreed quality, delivery and financial criteria as agreed with key internal and external stakeholders
- work with pre-sales teams and technical consultants to build project proposals, associated resource plans and budgets, and support the sales process including client presentations
- build and develop relationships within client organisations to justify project proposals and ensure the successful delivery of projects on approval by the client
- provide a point of escalation for project related issues (either internally from within the project or externally from the customer)
- manage suppliers and third parties as required during the project lifecycle
- identify and manage risks to project delivery in a formal manner, ensuring that they are well communicated to all stakeholders
- proactively identify opportunities to improve project performance and the customer experience, and promote to the broader team
- support the ongoing development of project team members through coaching and mentoring, and feedback to management
- provide accurate and timely management information, reporting and forecasting to Management


Business Area / Technical Experience (Desirable):

  • Microsoft technology stack including end user computing and server infrastructure
- cloud based solutions such as Azure, AWS, O36- network provisioning and an understanding of network related solutions including VOIP & Teams
- security solutions and GDPR (or above) compliance


Qualification/Certification requirements:

- degree qualified (or equivalent) or 10 years relevant experience in IT Project Management

  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified or equivalent (PMP)
  • ITIL v3 Foundation or above

Personal Qualities:

- able to communicate project concepts and issues to client organisations
- excellent stakeholder management skills
- able to produce detailed plans for implementation.
- clear and concise communicator, ensuring no ambiguity around the execution of tasks.
- excellent oral and written communication skills.
- ability to recognise. mitigate and escalate potential risks.
- persuasive, and able to influence and convince others of the way forward
- good attention to detail, especially in the production of plans, reports, and forecasts to ensure they are always accurate and relevant.
- good negotiation skills, able to achieve balanced outcomes
- a natural, charismatic leader of people able to drive the team to achieve the common goal
- able to manage and resolve conflict
- structured in their approach, well organised, with excellent time management skills

Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation.
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