As part of an expanding portfolio of products and increasing client footprint, the Workplace practice are now seeking to employ a strong Project Manager to join the team and be responsible for the delivery of key client engagements.
Background:
CloudStratex (CSX) is the number 1 fastest growing private British IT Company in 2022.
We help Enterprise clients effectively leverage next generation IT services and accelerate towards self-sufficiency. We do this by providing client-side incubation support with ready-made out-of-the box capability supported by smart, execution-focussed practitioners.
As part of an expanding portfolio of products and increasing client footprint, the Workplace practice are now seeking to employ a strong Project Manager to join the team and be responsible for the delivery of key client engagements.
Project Manager Role Description:
The Workplace Practice Project Manager will work closely with a Delivery Lead in ensuring engagements are being delivered successfully on time, to quality, and protecting margin.
The Project Manager will also support Pre-Sales activities where required including the development and delivery of client proposals and presentations in conjunction with the Sales team.
You will be:
- Leading and owning delivery engagements
- Managing and maintaining engagement commercials
- Acting on behalf of the Workplace practice in Sales opportunity development
- Supporting the proposal and Statement of Work building processes
- Driving and embodying CSX values and culture
Responsibilities:
Delivery Management
- Engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders managing expectations whilst focusing on customer satisfaction and CSX company goals
- Responsible for understanding and delivering the scope, activities, and deliverables for the engagement
- Maintain and run internal and external delivery reviews to provide regular updates on progress, setting up the appropriate governance to facilitate successful delivery
- Responsible for project / programme commercials ensuring payment milestones and deliverables are aligned, tracked, and understood
- Manage risk, issue and conflict, escalating where necessary ensuring early sight of potential issues to the Delivery Lead
- Build and maintain the delivery plan ensuring scope, time, cost, resourcing and schedule are aligned with deliverables and outcomes
- Provide oversight of deliverables submitted by the project team for internal review prior to review with the customer
- Track timesheet and expense submissions, ensuring the delivery keeps to forecasted spend, driving efficiencies where possible
- Execute upon activities and deliverables as appropriate ensuring these are operated to CSX guidelines and utilising CSX IP where available providing recommendations for improvement.
Pre-Sales
- Work with Sales to develop proposals and estimates for opportunities
- Build Statements of Work aligned to the proposal and pricing
- Prepare and present proposal collateral to prospective clients
- Assist in the development of relationships with potential customers
Key Skills & Experience:
Your skills and experience include:
- 8 years proven project management experience managing mid-large scale technology transformation projects to Enterprise clients
- Demonstrable experience of delivering infrastructure, cloud, security, or Microsoft 365 projects
- Strong project management skills (planning, reporting, risk, and issue management)
- Delivered T&M and Fixed Price engagements with accountability for the financial management
- Strong stakeholder management, presentation and negotiation skills working with and reporting to senior management / C-Level
- Experience of working within Agile and Scrum and iterative based deliveries
- Professional Project management certification preferred
- Previous consultancy experience is desired
- A good communicator, able to convey often difficult or ambiguous concepts to a customer in a way that they can grasp, relate to, and understand
- Exposure to or experience of writing proposals and Statements of Work
- Creative, tenacious with a strong desire to drive company goals
- Self-starter who is able to prioritise effectively and deliver without requiring close supervision
- A strong team player with the ability to lead from the front and drive excellence within the teams.
Background:
CloudStratex (CSX) is the number 1 fastest growing private British IT Company in 2022.
We help Enterprise clients effectively leverage next generation IT services and accelerate towards self-sufficiency. We do this by providing client-side incubation support with ready-made out-of-the box capability supported by smart, execution-focussed practitioners.
As part of an expanding portfolio of products and increasing client footprint, the Workplace practice are now seeking to employ a strong Project Manager to join the team and be responsible for the delivery of key client engagements.
Project Manager Role Description:
The Workplace Practice Project Manager will work closely with a Delivery Lead in ensuring engagements are being delivered successfully on time, to quality, and protecting margin.
The Project Manager will also support Pre-Sales activities where required including the development and delivery of client proposals and presentations in conjunction with the Sales team.
You will be:
- Leading and owning delivery engagements
- Managing and maintaining engagement commercials
- Acting on behalf of the Workplace practice in Sales opportunity development
- Supporting the proposal and Statement of Work building processes
- Driving and embodying CSX values and culture
Responsibilities:
Delivery Management
- Engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders managing expectations whilst focusing on customer satisfaction and CSX company goals
- Responsible for understanding and delivering the scope, activities, and deliverables for the engagement
- Maintain and run internal and external delivery reviews to provide regular updates on progress, setting up the appropriate governance to facilitate successful delivery
- Responsible for project / programme commercials ensuring payment milestones and deliverables are aligned, tracked, and understood
- Manage risk, issue and conflict, escalating where necessary ensuring early sight of potential issues to the Delivery Lead
- Build and maintain the delivery plan ensuring scope, time, cost, resourcing and schedule are aligned with deliverables and outcomes
- Provide oversight of deliverables submitted by the project team for internal review prior to review with the customer
- Track timesheet and expense submissions, ensuring the delivery keeps to forecasted spend, driving efficiencies where possible
- Execute upon activities and deliverables as appropriate ensuring these are operated to CSX guidelines and utilising CSX IP where available providing recommendations for improvement.
Pre-Sales
- Work with Sales to develop proposals and estimates for opportunities
- Build Statements of Work aligned to the proposal and pricing
- Prepare and present proposal collateral to prospective clients
- Assist in the development of relationships with potential customers
Key Skills & Experience:
Your skills and experience include:
- 8 years proven project management experience managing mid-large scale technology transformation projects to Enterprise clients
- Demonstrable experience of delivering infrastructure, cloud, security, or Microsoft 365 projects
- Strong project management skills (planning, reporting, risk, and issue management)
- Delivered T&M and Fixed Price engagements with accountability for the financial management
- Strong stakeholder management, presentation and negotiation skills working with and reporting to senior management / C-Level
- Experience of working within Agile and Scrum and iterative based deliveries
- Professional Project management certification preferred
- Previous consultancy experience is desired
- A good communicator, able to convey often difficult or ambiguous concepts to a customer in a way that they can grasp, relate to, and understand
- Exposure to or experience of writing proposals and Statements of Work
- Creative, tenacious with a strong desire to drive company goals
- Self-starter who is able to prioritise effectively and deliver without requiring close supervision
- A strong team player with the ability to lead from the front and drive excellence within the teams.