Infrastructure Project Manager

Description

The company is one of the fastest-growing technology firms in the UK, delivering IT transformation and delivery services to clients across several sectors.

Its clients include 18% of the FTSE 100, and it wins multi-million-pound projects and plans significant growth over the next few years.

The company started in the UK with a 2017 acquisition and now has 7400+ staff in offices in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Holland and Vietnam.

This role focuses on cloud migration projects and on building the team's ability to deliver the right solution for each client.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex infrastructure projects in project or programme roles, aiming for real business outcomes and high customer satisfaction.
• Lead large technology and business change projects from the front, scoping overall deliverables and the timeframes to work within.
• Manage system integration projects that span multiple technologies and third-party suppliers across a client's ecosystem.
• Communicate clearly with management, team members and customers on project, programme and business matters, building trust and strong relationships.
• Manage cloud delivery projects, particularly cloud migration.

Requirements

• You have a track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects on tight deadlines.
• You have excellent experience managing integrated solutions as a project manager.
• You have strong planning skills.
• You motivate teams and build strong relationships with customers and suppliers.
• You manage stakeholders and suppliers.
• You handle project finances, including estimation, cost control and commercial negotiation for existing and new work.
• You have shared knowledge with a wider professional community and mentored more junior colleagues to improve their effectiveness.
• Desirable: you can lead through ambiguity and uncertainty in a large organisation.
• Desirable: a recognised professional project management accreditation, such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or the APM Project Management Practitioner Qualification. It is not essential.

Conditions

You must be willing to travel within the UK for projects.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

You must be able to obtain UK Security Clearance.

The company offers guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria, if they opt in to the scheme.

Benefits

• 25 days of holiday.
• Private medical care through Vitality.
• A pension contribution and life assurance.
• Support for professional certifications as part of learning and development.
• The company Academy, with courses, seminars and certifications that build managerial skills, methodology knowledge, leadership and strategic thinking as you progress, along with more responsibility and peer networking.
• Retail discounts on restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure, and health and wellbeing services.
• Access to Employee Resource Groups, which bring together diverse backgrounds to connect, learn and support one another.