Senior Project Manager

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • nationwide call

nationwide

208186-en_GB

Life on the team

We are now recruiting experienced Senior Project Managers for UK Projects, part of Computacenter’s thriving Group Professional Services Organization.

Group Professional Services is a global team of over 4,200 skilled professionals serving some of the world’s greatest organizations in both the Corporate and Public sectors. We drive technological change in a dynamic and rapidly evolving digital landscape. As this landscape becomes more complex, our experts play an increasingly vital role in advising our customers and our Project Managers are key to the successful deployment of these technologies to ‘Help our Customers Change the World.’ 

What you'll do

As a Senior Project Manager in UK Projects, you’ll lead complex projects and programmes and your scope of activity will range from pre-sales all the way through the full project life cycle. 

You’ll be responsible for:

Project Management: using a formal methodology to deliver successful engagements to external customers.   

Change Management: Managing the end-to-end change process to deliver the required commercial outcome for Computacenter and our customers.   

Business Management: Optimizing assignment opportunities, minimizing risk & achieving assignment outcomes.  

Contract Management: Managing the assignment scope and understanding the commercial baseline, supporting, or leading the development, negotiation, and agreement of the statement of work and any subsequent changes.   

Financial Management: Ensuring the successful delivery of the assignment to the agreed financial baseline to meet (or exceed) the key performance indicators.  

Relationship Management: Creating and managing stakeholder relationships across Computacenter, its suppliers, and customers, ensuring that a constructive relationship is maintained.  

People Management: Leading, supporting and shaping the team to ensure the successful delivery of your assignment.   

What you'll need

  • Trained in project management methodology, for example, Prince 2 or Agile Techniques with demonstrable experience of leading large assignments and delivering high quality professional outcomes to external customers.   
  • Experience of delivering IT projects with a Professional Services revenue of over £1 million.
  • Good knowledge of project management tools and desktop applications. 
  • Confident, with demonstrable leadership and communication skills.   
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships.  
  • Able to apply influencing skills appropriately to enable the required outcomes for your stakeholders and to enable positive assignment outcomes.  
  • Good problem solving and analytical skills. 
  • Familiar with various technologies and able to converse confidently about technology with stakeholders. 

Additional Information:  

We are looking for someone who can: 

  • Understand the wider context of the assignment they are leading.   
  • Apply Emotional Intelligence with flexibility, to adapt personal style and approach. 
  • Articulate the value of project management.  

Why you should choose us

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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