Project Manager

Remote working with occasional travel into London and Bracknell Head Office.

As Project Manager you will ensures that all projects are produced within the specified deliverables to the required standard of quality and within the agreed constraints of time and budget

You will deal with high value, complex projects that require specialist skill and experience of Key Stakeholder Management.

Your responsibilities will include full budgetary control, resource management, team management, overall full project lifecycle control, project planning and status reporting to stakeholders and other clients and customer groups. You will also support and guide the Project Co-Ordinator’s and Junior Project Managers .

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

• Manage the delivery of Projects
• Provide all project planning, scope and sign-off documentation as per ISO standards
• Establish and manage all Project internal and external resources
• Budgetary responsibilities to ensure all deliverables are delivered to time and quality.
• Chair project review meetings with the customer
• Manage all changes to project plans, documentation and escalation of any issues
• Identify and maximize any additional project revenues from out of scope activities
• Control any staged payments/invoicing throughout the project lifecycle
• Provide project status and business reports
• Issue regular project highlight reports to show project progress versus plan
• Issue detail financial analysis reports to show project costs and revenues versus plan
• Maintain a comprehensive project file for each project
• Be a key resource for Project pre-sales and initiation activities
• Input into the bid and sales proposal processes
• Provide clear definitions for project scope and deliverables
• Provide project pricing
• Attend customer meetings/presentations as part of the sales campaign team
• Provide risk assessment for senior management review

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate calibre or equivalent
• Excellent PC Skills

• Some experience of influencing and negotiations are a must along with experience of delivering projects in a matrix-managed team.
• Awareness in the principles, methods and techniques for the effective set-up and delivery of technical projects
• Delegating tasks, responsibilities, and authorities effectively
• Highly effective written and oral communicator to all levels within an organization. Ability to tailor approach to audience requirements.

• IT Transition Projects

Experience of complex:

• IT outsourcing.

• Desktop and other hardware Deployment

• Service Transition

• Global audits

• Technical Projects Implementations

• Hands on management of projects running simultaneously (4+)
• International experience in delivering projects across multiple countries through multiple partners
• Prince 2 Qualified or similar

About us

A&O IT Group is an award-winning, fast-growth, global IT services and cyber security consultancy operating in over 130 countries. A&O IT Group is proud to sit within the Stock Exchange's Top 1000 most inspirational companies in the UK.

OUR VALUES:

Our team prides itself on our core values and commitment to doing the basics brilliantly. If you too strive to engage & delight, we would love to hear from you.