Project Manager Vacancy
Roles & Responsibilities
As Project Manager you will manage a number of con-current technology projects undertaken for a variety of blue chip clients. You will be 50% project manager, 40% account manager and 10% mentor encouraging skill development within the delivery organisation.
Your involvement with the projects will begin early in the life-cycle, where you will be heavily involved in creating the technical and commercial proposals, and you will continue with the project through to its successful delivery to the client, and hopefully follow-up sales.
An essential part of the role will be the management of the client relationships where you will be the focal point for all client communications. This will require you to both think about the project at a high level while at the same time understanding the project at a detailed level.
You will work closely with the project’s Technical Manager to oversee the project on a day to day basis. With the support of the Technical Manager, you will apply the programme management methods, processes and tools needed to ensure that projects are correctly defined, planned, costed, resourced, and tracked. You will also be a mentor to the team, providing a sounding board and advice to help progress the project as needed.
Experience
The ideal candidate will be a commercially savvy experienced manager with a strong technical background and proven track record in a consultancy business. Experience of running highly distributed teams across multiple time zones would be a great advantage, as would experience of working on commercially based open source based projects.
Skills
• Full lifecycle project management, including: project planning, project monitoring, project reporting, and project financials
• Account management, including stakeholder management and commercial management of the engagement
• People management, including mentoring
• Developing and championing best practices
• Awareness of technology development from a conceptual to a practical level (e.g. in terms of testing, build and integration, and defect management), ideally in an open source environment
• Presentation and communication skills
• Problem solving skills and a delivery-focused attitude
• Planning and organisational skills
• Team building skills, especially the ability to motivate others and build team morale
• Interest and enthusiasm to use and learn new software packages, in particular open source solutions
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies