Senior Project Manager

Location: UK - Mobile England | Job-ID: 209963 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

Life on the team 

This critical new role sits within the Transition and Transformation (T&T) team, a core part of Group Managed Services (GMS). Reporting into of the Portfolio Managers in Andy Gough’s Programme Practice.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the successful outcome and delivery of Managed Services transitions and transformations (to agreed quality, time, and budget constraints).  
The Senior Project Manager often need to collaborate strongly with the Customer Exec roles where the deal is of significant scale or complexity, ensuring that their T&T Practice resource requirements and business outcomes are achieved. 

What you’ll do 

You’ll be responsible for delivering your assignments in accordance with the Group Service Take-on Receive handover from Deal Acceptance. Roles at this level will typically undertake projects in excess of £2m or of a complex nature and will typically be involved in pre-sales activity.

• Achieves profitability and customer satisfaction on projects through astute commercial management
• Develop, build and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally in order to achieve project objectives.
• Produce management reports through relevant tools to provide up to date information on project progress.
• Produce required project documentation to enable successful project outcomes.
• Coordinate and plan resource requirements to ensure project outcome deadlines are adhered to.
• Compliance with Projects Practice lifecycle to ensure best practice.
• Typically responsible for projects in excess of £800k services value or complex engagements.
• Actively involved in presales.
• Responsible for estimating and pricing of the project element of bids in order to effectively scope the project requirements.
• Responsible for managing multiple projects to ensure projects are delivered within timeframes and budgets.
• Lead, coach and mentor less experienced team members to aid their development and increase capability.
• Run Project Definition Workshop to define requirements and accurately scope project outcomes.
• Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation.

What you’ll need

• Prince2 Practitioner qualification or equivalent.
• ISEB or APM qualified
• Experience of working in a project team on at least 2 projects
• Knowledge of initiation, change management, risk management, and the principles and practicalities of running projects.
• Proven experience of Microsoft applications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Manages own and others workload.

Current information for our applicants

We have made our application and recruitment process virtual, we are excited to bring talent like you on board to join our growing teams within Computacenter. Our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you!

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 20,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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