Location: UK - Mobile England | Job-ID: 206925 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

Senior Project Manager
 

Life on the team
As a Senior Project Manager (SPM) in Computacenter’s Projects & Programmes Practice you will be responsible for delivering complex and/or high risk, end-to-end projects, multiple projects simultaneously or significant work-streams on larger projects and programmes. These may be stand alone or delivered within a Project Management Office (PPO). You may also be required to lead a more complex Project & Portfolio Office (PPO). You will lead the engagement, be responsible for the business outcome and for the overall success of the change activity and will assure and govern the programme/assignment to ensure it meets Computacenter’s and the Customer’s requirements and needs. Your scope of activity will range from the development of the delivery approach used by Computacenter, the delivery definition and the successful delivery of assignments from inception through to completion. Delivery of a successful project will include: building and managing your team, ensuring the agreed products are delivered, effective communication, managing project controls (including risk, issue, customer dependencies and change) and providing a high-quality professional outcome to the satisfaction of our customers and other stakeholders.
There will be times where you will lead, on behalf of the Practice, the activities required to create a solution based on a set of customer requirements, support managing it through the sales cycle and appropriate governance. Presenting to the customer in a compelling way to support the sales team to achieve positive outcome and support our growth agenda.

What you’ll do
Your overall responsibility is for meeting the commitments made to customers and internal stakeholders to successfully deliver the assignment you are leading as defined in your terms of reference or project control documentation. These will be delivered alongside the agreed financial outcome of the assignment. In support of this, you’re expected to understand and articulate to customers both what Computacenter sells and delivers and have a good working knowledge of the technology/solution.

Key responsibilities:
•    Project Management (throughout the whole lifecycle)
•    Change Management
•    Business Management
•    Contract Management
•    Financial Management
•    Relationship Management
•    People Management

What you’ll need
•    Familiarity with the latest technologies and the ability to articulate the benefits in line with Computacenter’s propositions. 
•    Trained and accredited in project management methodology, for example Prince2, Agile Techniques.
•    A demonstrable track record of delivering complex, high-risk assignments/multiple successful outcomes.
•    Exposure delivering a range of IT projects (e.g. End User Deployment, Desktop and Application Virtualisation, Application/Software Development, Cloud and Data Centres, and Networking & Security). 
•    Demonstrable leadership skills and personal gravitas.
•    Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.
•    Able to apply a variety of influencing skills to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders, to enable positive assignment outcomes.
•    Ability to apply a variety of approaches including Emotional Intelligence with flexibility, to adapt personal style and approach to meet specific customer needs and to resolve conflicts.
•    Understand and be able to articulate the wider context of the project you are leading.
•    Ability to articulate the value of project management to internal and external customers.
•    Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.   
 

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.