Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager- Fully Remote UK

£55,000-£65,000 + Benefits

25 days Holiday + Bank & Christmas

Pension 9%

2 Charity Volunteer Days

Electric Car Scheme

Share Incentive Scheme

Personal Development Allowance

Working from Home Allowance

Unify is super proud to be working with a people-centric Microsoft Gold Partner who genuinely have an unrivalled culture, working environment and reputation in the marketplace. They offer incredibly competitive salaries and a hugely impressive benefits package which is second to none.

As a Senior Project Manager you will manage cutting edge enterprise scale projects with a team of experts. You will lead the implementation teams, interact with stakeholders and be responsible for the successful implementation of their projects from initial scoping through to delivery and on to post delivery support to time, cost and quality constraints. For a mix of Public and private sector clients across the UK. They operate using both agile and waterfall methodologies but you will need to be able to adapt your approach depending on the client and the project.

As a Senior Project Manager you will be on hand to support junior colleagues and be the lead figure maintaining their strong team culture, ensuring the team work effectively and efficiently with an eye to continuous growth of their knowledge, skills and experience.

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Who is this business?

Our client is a rapidly expanding Microsoft Gold Partner who possesses a wealth of resources, qualified and experienced in the Microsoft suite of software and infrastructure solutions. They have established a strong reputation for the timely and cost-effective completion of projects in both the private and public sector.

They often help organisations who have in-housed their services away from long service agreements with traditional ICT service providers. As such they can provide excellent cost efficiency, for the delivery of tangible outcomes you need.

They help organisations obtain a clear ‘total cost of ownership’ view of their existing on-premises ICT including management and operational costs and provide a recommended ICT vision that is tailored to the business requirements and budget. They can help their clients leverage the management and cost efficiencies of cloud hosting and, as one of Microsoft’s highest calibre recommended partners, they have expertise in Microsoft365 including Teams and Telephony, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint and Azure hosting.

In addition, the business maintains a strong focus on knowledge transfer, to help clients manage their own ICT landscape, as they feel that empowering customers to maintain their solutions is imperative to ensuring sustainable success.

Why join this business?

They are passionate about the delivery of Impactful and Purposeful change for their clients!

With a strong culture our highly skilled and diverse team is equipped to deliver innovative and cutting edge solutions for both our Public and Private Sector clients. Drawn to deliver impactful change that benefits communities and their clients stakeholders, their people are proud to be a part of their customers journey.

They work in a fast paced environment where they empower their people to work autonomously as subject matter experts, trusting and supporting their skill sets to develop solutions that meet and often exceed their customer requirements.

Examples of what makes this business a great environment to work in:

702 hours donated to Charities & Communities in last 6 months and £33,000 of donations to Charity

Extremely focused on diversity at every level, this is demonstrated by the fact that 51% of our workforce is female, with a 40% representation in leadership roles, which is unorthodox in a Digital / IT Organisation.

1,092 careers have been kick-started via our Community Investment Programmes, which places us well on track for our target of 5,000 by 2025.

We believe we are already well underway in achieving our target of Net Zero by 2025, if not already there! Our targets will soon be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Recently launched employee resource groups covering women, LGBTQI and minority ethnic groups. We also have a Board Mentoring Programme.

Launch of a new Academy to build skills internally.

A recent organisational survey had a score of 8/10 in terms of confidence in Leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the successful delivery of both infrastructure and application based projects.
• Own the project’s objectives to ensure that risks and issues are appropriately and clearly communicated, managed or escalated.
• Communicate and manage senior stakeholders across multiple business lines.
• Coordinate with internal and external teams to ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
• Establish an understanding of the business, develop a deep understanding of business needs and build and shape delivery plans and teams.
• Ensure effective communication with clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, providing regular project status updates and identifying and addressing any issues that arise.
• Prepare and deliver presentations and facilitate decisions among senior stakeholders.
• Lead and inspire teams.
• Represent the project in line with the customer’s culture, ensuring full transparency, auditability and value for money objectives are met/upheld.
• Initial scoping and estimating of opportunities to ensure proposals are accurately informed and align with the client’s requirement.

Skills required:

• 5+ years Project Management experience (essential).
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft, AWS and / or GCP technologies (essential).
• Experience with Infrastructure and Application based projects
• Excellent knowledge of Project Management and Programme Management principles.
• Excellent knowledge of Project Management and Programme Management methodologies such as Prince2 and Agile or SCRUM.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead.
• Proven ability to manage project budgets
• Proven ability to manage a multi-disciplined project team.

Please reach out for more info.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee mentoring programme
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Flexitime
• Gym membership
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Experience:

• Project Management (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: Senior Project Manager