We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced IT Project Manager for our clients who are an IT Managed service provider.

This is a remote role but applicants must be ale to travel into the office one or twice a month

The IT Project Manager should have significant demonstrable experience shaping and delivering several IT projects within a multi-divisional business. Have suitable practical experience of project managing technical and functional change at workstream level from inception to implementation on complex projects (around 5-8 years ideally). They will develop and nurture relationships with business counterparts to help them accurately understand business requirements, ways of working and desired outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

• Within small to medium scale projects, co-ordinates the projects’ workstreams, on a day-to-day basis, to ensure maximum efficiency in the allocation of common resources and skills.
• Ability to engage and influence peers in I.T. and Business. Manages 3rd party Supplier resources and engagements on the Project
• Ensures that the appropriate environment is developed to support project managers, including the processes and practices for managing projects utilising best practice.
• Implements systems, processes, and measures to ensure that exceptions, slippage and issues of priority are effectively managed, and that extra activities are initiated wherever gaps in the programme are identified
• An understanding of assigned business functional domain including business operating model, activities, data, process, and information requirements
• Monitors overall progress and initiates corrective action, as appropriate, to ensure that deliverable is produced on time, within budget and to acceptable quality
• Manages both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and other deliveries
• Manages the communications with all stakeholders, reporting progress of the project at regular intervals to the Sponsor, steering group or senior management
• Manages project budget, costs and accruals process using assigned tools and processes

Skills, experience & minimum qualifications required:

• Experience of databases, applications, infrastructure, Cloud, Azure, M365, development
• Practical usage of AzureDevOps, JIRA or similar supporting agile ceremonies for planning, collaboration and delivery of work activities
• Ability to analyse information and make sound decisions on the findings
• Commercial awareness
• Able to influence and negotiate
• Ability to present reports and information in a variety of ways
• Customer and delivery focused, meeting and exceeding customer expectations
• Ability to work with a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Proactively builds knowledge through sharing knowledge, ideas and expertise with others.
• Degree in relevant discipline (or equivalent)
• Relevant professional Accreditation e.g. Prince 2 Practitioner APMP, Scrum Master etc.
• Can achieve security clearance (BPSS or higher).