Project Manager - Transition & Transformation

Life on the team

As a Project Manager (PM1) in Computacenters Global Transition & Transformation Team you will manage entire transition projects delivered to a contractual services customer account or manage significant workstreams on very large and complex Transition projects reporting into Programme Managers, Programme Directors or Customer Executives. You may also be called on to lead Exits of Managed Services.

Your scope of activity can range from pre-sales (leading, scoping, estimating and designing the project or assuring the solution), through delivery and into closure. You will need to understand and work with creating commercial models. Your responsibilities will also include management and reporting, including the finances of the project.

You will be a leader, guiding, motivating and directing others to achieve a common goal.

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 internal stakeholders. Youll be responsible typically for take-on projects with an budget between 50 to 750k.

What youll do

• 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 between 300k - 800k services value
• May get involved in presales. Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation.
• Contributing to engagement outcomes
• Maintain cost control requirements
• Demonstrates relevant FACE behaviours
• Delivers projects
• Follows company standard methodology
• Is compliant to internal processes
• Where running a project, ensures project is planned and run effectively and escalation occurs appropriately

What youll need

• 9 to 14 years of experience in Project Management (throughout the whole lifecycle) in Transition & Transformation.

• 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