Project Manager

 Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Reading, UK - Nottingham, UK - Mobile England, UK - Milton Keynes | Job-ID: 208239 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

Life on the team 
We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a Project Manager 2 UK into our thriving Group Professional Services (GPS) organisation within Computacenter.  

So, who are we? 

Group Professional Services encompasses our Engineering, Consultancy and Project Management practices together with our growing Business Solutions portfolio and nearshore/offshore centres. We are made of up of over 4,200 skilled practitioners with deep expertise across core infrastructure technologies and industry standard architecture and project management methodologies. Operating across 3 continents and serving some of the world’s largest brands we drive technology change in a thriving and fast-moving digital industry.

What you’ll do

As a Project Manager 2 (PM2) in Computacenter’s UK Projects Practice you will manage entire projects or work-streams on larger projects and programmes. These may be stand-alone projects or delivered within a Projects & Portfolio Management Office (PMO). 
You may also be required to lead a less complex Projects & Portfolio Management Office (PMO). Your scope of activity can range from pre-sales (leading, scoping, estimating, and designing the project or assuring the solution), through delivery and into closure. 
You will need to understand and work with different commercial models (e.g. Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Resource on Demand). Delivery of a successful project will include building and managing your team, ensuring the agreed products are delivered, effective communication, managing project controls (including risk, issue, customer dependencies and change) and providing a high-quality professional outcome to the satisfaction of our customers and other stakeholders. 
You will be responsible typically for projects with a services revenue of up to £1.5 million.

Specific tasks include:

Project Management: Throughout the whole lifecycle, be conversant with and adhere to our methodologies for delivering Professional Services engagements to our customers. 
Change Management: Own or ensure that the end-to-end change process foe the assignment is followed to ensure full awareness, adoption, and use of the projects, to minimize working at risk/commercial exposure & optimize our contribution.
Business Management: Optimise the assignment opportunities, minimize risk & achieve assignment outcomes.
Contract Management: Manage the assignment scope and understand the commercial baseline, supporting or leading the development, negotiation, and agreement of the statement of work and any subsequent changes. 
Financial Management: Be responsible for the successful delivery of the assignment to the agreed financial baseline to meet (or exceed) the key performance indicators. There are typically defined and agreed with the sales team and other key stakeholders in the statement of work and cost model. 
Relationship Management: During your assignments, you will create and manage the stakeholder relationships across Computacenter, its suppliers, and customers, ensuring that a positive and constructive relationship is created and maintained. 
People Management: You will be responsible for leading and shaping the team to ensure the successful delivery of your assignment. 

What you will need

• Trained in project management methodology, for example, Prince2 or Agile Techniques. 
• A demonstrable track record of delivering less-complex large assignments and successful project outcomes. 
• Experience delivering IT Projects e.g. Smart Infrastructure, Modern Workplace, Desktop roll-outs, deployments. 
• Demonstrable leadership skills. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Ability to apply Emotional Intelligence with flexibility, to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs.
• Able to apply influencing skills appropriately to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders and to enable positive assignment outcomes.
• Understand the wider context of the project you are leading. 
• Ability to articulate the value of project management to internal and external customers. 
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
   

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.