IT Project Manager

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IT Project Manager

Full Time / Permanent

Salary £50k-£60k negotiable depending on experience

Location: Remote / Southampton (Flexi Working Available predominately remote)

We have been retained as a recruitment partner to a leading managed service provider, who require a Technical Project Manager to start ASAP. Our client is interested in seeing entry level Project Managers right up to more experienced candidates. You will be reporting directly to Head of projects.

Role Purpose

*As a key member of the Project Team, you will be providing Project Management for new and changing services to our customers through exceptional communication, organisation and customer service skills.

*The role will require the ability to own the delivery of projects whilst working with our dedicated project engineering team. The role will require you to define, scope and delegate tasks and responsibility to project engineers (and where appropriate other project managers) that will support you when delivering projects.

*The role will require the ability to own the setup of associated invoicing, billing and arrangement for project milestones within the delivery of new and changed services to our customers.

*The role will require the ability to own the Project Portfolios to report on how many projects are in queue, in flight and will be completed in any given period. This reporting will include resource allocations and cost management.

*You will need to implement and uphold the project management processes to deliver quality projects On Time and In Budget.

*You will need to form an excellent working relationship with all members of the project team to ensure that project tasks and phases are delivered on-time and within the budget. This will require exceptional project management skills, use of project management tools and excellent customer communication.

*Extra duties on an out-of-hours basis may be required from time to time and are considered part of the role. This includes travelling to client sites and other company offices, dependent on the workload and location of customer. Customers are mainly UK based but some international travel may be required

We are keen to see candidates with majority of the following:

*Must hold minimum of PRINCE2 Foundation

*Working towards or holding PRINCE2 Practitioner or similar qualification

*Understanding of PMP, Agile and working Kanban Sprints

*Experienced in the use of Project Management Software

*Technical background in IT, particularly as part of a Service Desk, Project Delivery Team or a Managed Service Provider.

*Ability to manage and organise a large number of tasks and work under pressure, whilst maintaining an eye for detail and ensuring timely delivery of quality services.

*Understanding of Key Performance Indicators and ability to recognise and recommend new measures to help continually improve the Project Team and delivery of the service we provide.

*Ability to identify the need for a process and be able to help define the process and deliver the changes required to achieve the right outcome.

Desirable:

*ITIL Foundation certified

*Understanding and awareness of Microsoft Cloud Technologies

*General awareness of Microsoft Cloud Technologies

*General Awareness of other MS Business technologies

*General Awareness of VMware and Hyper-V environments

*Experience of managing change in an ISO9001, ISO20000 or ISO27001 environment

Please apply for a full detailed job description.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

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