Senior Project Manager

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • nationwide call

nationwide

209963-en_GB

Life on the team

This critical new role sits within the Transition and Transformation (T&T) team, a core part of Group Managed Services (GMS). Reporting into of the Portfolio Managers in Andy Gough’s Programme Practice.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for the successful outcome and delivery of Managed Services transitions and transformations (to agreed quality, time, and budget constraints).
The Senior Project Manager often need to collaborate strongly with the Customer Exec roles where the deal is of significant scale or complexity, ensuring that their T&T Practice resource requirements and business outcomes are achieved.

What you’ll do


You’ll be responsible for delivering your assignments in accordance with the Group Service Take-on Receive handover from Deal Acceptance. Roles at this level will typically undertake projects in excess of £2m or of a complex nature and will typically be involved in pre-sales activity.

  • Achieves profitability and customer satisfaction on projects through astute commercial management
  • Develop, build and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally in order to achieve project objectives.
  • Produce management reports through relevant tools to provide up to date information on project progress.
  • Produce required project documentation to enable successful project outcomes.
  • Coordinate and plan resource requirements to ensure project outcome deadlines are adhered to.
  • Compliance with Projects Practice lifecycle to ensure best practice.
  • Typically responsible for projects in excess of £800k services value or complex engagements.
  • Actively involved in presales.
  • Responsible for estimating and pricing of the project element of bids in order to effectively scope the project requirements.
  • Responsible for managing multiple projects to ensure projects are delivered within timeframes and budgets.
  • Lead, coach and mentor less experienced team members to aid their development and increase capability.
  • Run Project Definition Workshop to define requirements and accurately scope project outcomes.
  • Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation.


What you’ll need

  • Prince2 Practitioner qualification or equivalent.
  • ISEB or APM qualified
  • Experience of working in a project team on at least 2 projects
  • Knowledge of initiation, change management, risk management, and the principles and practicalities of running projects.
  • Proven experience of Microsoft applications.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
  • Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
  • Manages own and others workload.


Current information for our applicants

We have made our application and recruitment process virtual, we are excited to bring talent like you on board to join our growing teams within Computacenter. Our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you!

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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