IT Project Manager

Salary: £384 – £480 per day

IT Project Manager £ NW London (Managed Service Provider)

Role

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and experienced Project Manager from the MSP IT sector to join my clients growing team. Our new team member should ideally have a minimum of 2 years IT Project Management experience lternatively a senior engineer looking for their next step up the ladder into management who has dealt with clients projects from start to finish.

The role of our Project Managers is a pivotal role in overseeing the delivery of multiple projects providing IT infrastructure and architectural services and ensuring these are managed in line with client expectations.

Reporting to the Technical Director, the PM will be responsible for ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and budget allocated. The PM will be supporting the project Engineers by coordinating and briefing the team, providing operational and logical guidance ensuring resources are available and allocated adequately, while facilitating appropriate communications between our stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

* Manage projects/programs from design and development to production, while following and maintaining project documentation;

* Work with Project Engineers to formulate project plans while defining project requirements and planning project lifecycle deployment;

* Define resources and schedule for project/program implementation;

* Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning;

* Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, milestones;

* Demonstrate strong organisational, presentation, and customer service skills;

* To manage and schedule engineering resource to ensure successful project implementation;

* Ensure all project plans, resourcing and documentation are submitted for approval before, during and at the end of the project life-cycle;

* Manage the expectations of internal and external stakeholders, by communicating client expectations to the relevant teams;

* Coordinate all relevant third party suppliers in the delivery of the overall project;

* Ensure that all projects have a risk register, issues log assigned, populated and kept current throughout the lifetime of a project;

* Ensure that all assigned projects are completed on time, within budget and in accordance with the approved project plan;

* Ensure that all completed projects are properly handed over to the Service desk. This will include documentation including diagrams, configurations, licencing agreements, key contacts, and 3rd party contracts and key information about the client and their use of IT;

* Ensure all projects are invoiced correctly, including any on-going costs;

* Ensure that all completed projects are delivered in line with company quality standards

* Assist in updating and enforcing the Project Framework

Ideal Candidate:

* 2 years minimum experience as a Project Manager or a senior engineer looking for their next step

* Demonstrated project leadership skills;

* Has a excellent knowledge of hardware and any technical issues the client might have

* Good negotiation skills;

* Demonstrated history of delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget

* Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

* Basic understanding of underlying IT solutions such as cloud, virtualisation and networking

* Strong presentation skills. Ability to effectively present and manage internal and external stakeholders;

* Formal project management certification (PMP/Prince2 or similar) and ideally ITIL

Must have hard and software support experience.