Senior Project Manager (CISCO/LAN/WAN/FIREWALLS)

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Senior Project Manager - Permanent - Brighton - £50k

The Senior Project Manager plays a key role in the planning, management, coordination and financial control of projects, across the entire technology portfolio. This includes supporting pre-sales for project opportunities, hence ensuring that projects are delivered to the required time, cost and quality, and that the customer and project objectives are met.

Principal Responsibilities

* Maintain organisation effectiveness by efficiently defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for all projects, collaborating with key internal and external stakeholders

* Support the Delivery Management Director in reporting, management and exception resolution across the programme of works

* Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables, plans and risks

* Provide resource and scheduling requirements to ensure timely delivery of projects

* Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated, ensuring appropriate customer and management reporting during delivery and on completion.

* Support Pre-Sales during the definition, planning and estimation of project sales opportunities

* Facilitation of new product development, through planning and co-ordination of product delivery teams

* Compile and manage project documentation throughout project delivery

* Manage exceptions and disputes in a professional and effective manner

* Mentor and support the Project Management Office (PMO)

* Provide exceptional customer service

* Undertake training as and when required to maintain own development

* Undertake any other reasonable duties as instructed by senior management

Requirements

* Minimum of 5 years' experience in IT project management with specific experience of at least two of WAN, LAN, Unified Communications and Data Centre deployments

* Prince2, APM or other recognised Project Management certification desirable

* University degree qualification in IT related subject desirable

* Ability to manage numerous related or unrelated projects and manage delivery and reporting as a Programme of works when required

* Ability to identify, define and implement business improvement initiatives relating to the delivery PMO services

* Experience in people management with the ability to drive results and delegate

* Experience in strategic planning

* Experience in change and risk management

* Experience of applying best practice frameworks and methods such as ITIL and ISO standards

* Excellent attention to detail

* Strong negotiation and facilitation skills

* Pro-active attitude to continuous service improvement and results orientated

* Outstanding time management skills