As a Project Manager (PM) in Computacenter s Projects & Programmes Practice you will be managing end to end Projects for external or internal customers. These may be stand-alone, delivered within a Projects & Portfolio Office (PPO).
Your scope of activity can range from contributing to pre-sales, 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). Your responsibilities will also include management and reporting, including the finances of the project.
Delivery of a successful project will include ensuring the agreed products are delivered, effective communication, managing project controls (including risk, issue, customer dependencies and change) building and/or supporting your team and providing a high-quality professional outcome to the satisfaction of our customers and internal stakeholders.
You will be collaborative but structured, working with Cloud SMEs, Architects, Engineers and with the supporting teams from IAM/PAM and technology.
You will ensure the team are documenting the controls, patterns, access models and designs. With a focus on consistent controls and automation, building out a consumable service design to accelerate the transformation to AWS.
You will also focus on Azure, therefore we do need to consider cloud provider agnostic where possible.
You are authoritative, and provide leadership and motivation to your project team, holding to scope and delivering to the success criteria.
You have a background in cyber security transformation projects, and delivering projects that including shifting to cloud services (AWS/Azure) for business application and technology solutions.
You will be a self-starter and self-managing - dealing with the challenges that arise in a project on a day-to-day basis.
Key Responsibilities:
Highly experience as a project management in a global financial or regulated organisation
Detail oriented planner
Manage various stakeholder (globally and at all levels)
Risk, issues, assumptions, dependencies and project financial management
Reporting an accurate progress
Manage resources and other risks to remain on track
Control and facilitate meetings / workshops to output and consensus
What you ll need
8-14 years or relevant experience.
Trained in Project Management, for example Prince2, to Foundation level and working towards a Practitioner qualification or equivalent, Agile techniques.
A demonstrable track record of delivering successful project outcomes. Good interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
Aware of the need to be Emotionally Intelligent, to adapt personal style and approach to meet customer needs.
Be able to understand the Business outputs required from your assignment.
Skilled user of Microsoft applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & Project, and other relevant tools.
Good literacy and numeracy skills.
Good exposure working with end-to-end IT infrastructure projects.
IAM/PAM background.
Proven experience working in a Cyber Security environment with managing a minimum of 2 full life cycle cyber security projects.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact professionally with multiple global stakeholders and technical teams (Senior leaders, Cloud Engineers, Architects, Technical Engineers and Developers)
Transformation focused (People, process & technology)
Experience delivering projects for Global Financial or regulated organisations.
Change Management:
Communicate potential risks and issues (including dependencies) that are likely to require formal change to stakeholders as early as possible, to minimise future conflict/commercial exposure.
Comply with/ensure the commercial approval process is followed in the required timeframes to minimise Working at Risk/commercial exposure and optimise our contribution.
Ensure changes are agreed with the customer, or commercial owner prior to commencing any additional work.
If there s any change to the project s approved commercial baselined deliverables (as defined in the SoW) all relevant stakeholders must be informed. This should include changes to cost (including supporting cost models), revenue, scope, timescales and any service impact.
Update the project plan to reflect changes, When any change to an assignment is approved, ensure records are updated and stored appropriately.
Business Management
Be aware of the account strategy for your aligned account. Help and positively influence that strategy if you can and understand your customer s priorities.
Support, as required, any Professional Services sales activity.
Pro-actively look for opportunities to contribute to the development and growth of Computacenter s Professional Service business. Contract Management
Manage the assignment scope (or support the LPM with this) and understand the commercial baseline, supporting the development, negotiation and agreement of Statement of Work contract and any subsequent changes. o Work with the allocated contract manager (or support the LPM/SM with this) to agree customer changes to the scope, duration and costs of the assignment and ensure commercial acceptance of any change before the work begins.
During the delivery of the assignment you will contribute to or own the interface to all contributing teams, ensuring commitments are clear and reflected correctly in relevant Statements of Work.
Financial Management
Support and enable the successful delivery of the assignment to the agreed financial baseline to meet (or exceed) the key performance indicators (KPIs). These are typically defined and agreed with the sales team and other key stakeholders in the Statement of Work and cost model
Support or manage the financial performance of your assignmenet by contributing to or maintaining PEAT and completing the scheduled monthly Project Financial Reports (PFRs), which require accurate forecasting, invoicing and pro-active cost management.
Relationship Management
If you are leading an assignment, you will create and manage the stakeholder relationships across Computacenter, its suppliers and the customer, ensuring that a positive and constructive relationship is created and maintained to the benefit of all, to support the achievement of our customer satisfaction targets.
You will build effective relationships will all key areas of Computacenter and any third parties.
People Management
You will be responsible for leading and shaping or contributing to the team to ensure the successful delivery of your assignment.
Ensuring that all members of your project team are appropriately supported, heralded, motivated and engaged and that individual performance is managed in conjunction with their Line Manager.
Support and coach less experienced Practice members, as required to support their development plans. o You will be proactive in providing appropriate feedback on performance and approach
