Presales Project Manager

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • Birmingham, Hatfield, London, Reading, Salford

Birmingham, Hatfield, London, Reading, Salford

216918-en_GB

Life on the team

Are you an experienced presales professional who loves shaping impactful customer solutions? Do you take pride in defining clear, compelling proposals that set projects up for success? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to bring your expertise into a role where your work directly influences outcomes across a broad blue chip client base.

As our Presales Project Manager within Group Professional Services (GPS), you’ll be at the heart of designing and positioning high-value, innovative solutions for customers—working with leading-edge technology and collaborating closely with a highly skilled and supportive team. From scoping and planning through to costing, documentation, and early-stage project definition, you’ll ensure customers have absolute clarity and confidence in the solutions we recommend in the project delivery space. You’ll also benefit from comprehensive training and continuous development to support your success in the role.

This position is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment where their expertise helps shape the right outcomes, builds strong customer relationships, and influences the future of our service offerings.

What you’ll do

  • Engaging confidently with customers to understand requirements and shape commercially and technically sound solutions in the project delivery space.
  • Leading the creation of high quality, customer facing proposals that align with customer requirements, needs and business objectives.
  • Managing presales activity end-to-end, including scoping, planning, costing, and early project definition.
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders at all levels to ensure clarity, alignment, and smooth transition into project delivery.
  • Presenting solutions clearly and persuasively through exceptional written and verbal communication.
  • Producing contractual documentation which delivers the required customer outcomes and meets our commercial strategy, while providing the mechanisms for the management of in-life change and risk,
  • Delivery of a successful handover into project delivery teams.

What you’ll need

  • Extensive experience in a Professional Services project presales environment, with a strong background producing customer ready proposals.
  • Commercial acumen, demonstrated through managing scoping, costing, and early stage project changes.
  • Exceptional communication skills, able to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
  • A genuine passion for understanding customer needs and defining effective solutions.
  • Strong experience in project initiation, planning, and end-to-end delivery ownership.
  • A proven track record in leading successful customer-focused projects.
  • SC clearance or ability to pass

Access all areas

Join us and you’ll follow a structured programme that gives you access to all parts of Computacenter including our senior leaders.

Freedom & trust

You’ll have the support on hand when you need it and the autonomy when you don’t. Feel right at home in an environment where you’re able to work with freedom and flexibility, and trusted to manage your own work.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Working with the best

Over 1,300 technology consultants, 900 project managers and 3,200 systems engineers come together to form our highly regarded professional services community. You’ll find they’re a close-knit team, where mutual trust and collaboration is the norm.

Sharing knowledge

We organise several events and initiatives, such our UK Professional Services Conference and ‘Lunch and Learn’ sessions, that bring together the brightest minds in the business. Here you can learn new things, network, and celebrate success together.

Exciting digital technology

Challenging and rewarding projects: The range of technologies and industries that we are so diverse, that no two projects are alike. The result? A role for you that’s varied and provides the opportunity to expand your expertise and develop your career further.

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Personal development

We like to invest in our people. We offer training and technology certifications, mentoring and coaching, specialist or management careers, access to our on-the-go immersive learning platform, Percipio, and much more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

You belong

You belong

At Computacenter, we celebrate difference and it’s important to us that we have a working culture where you can be free to be yourself; in an environment where you feel valued, respected, and supported to reach your full potential and experience a sense of belonging. Because we know when you thrive, we thrive.

As a proud equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring that there is fair and equal access to opportunities for everyone. Your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a government scheme that helps employers attract, recruit, and retain disabled staff. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats – and guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.

Winning Together

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