Project Manager - Technical

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Project Manager - Technical

We are actively looking to secure an enthusiastic and conscientious Technical Project Manager to join the Employed Consultant team here at Experis.

The role

Technical PM - Exit programme, managing the remaining exit projects (Hosting, RAS & Voice transitions)

Responsibilities

* Managing financials, including month end reconciliation, monthly finance reviews and monthly forecasting, change management (in project changes)

* Standard reporting (weekly and monthly), managing risks and issues, managing/facilitating/documenting project meetings (internal with client resource and also external with the customer) and attending internal account meetings

* Weekly review of the CRF tracker with PMO and completing/chasing actions where required

* Resource management (ROMA), WBS management (including assigning WBS codes and approving timesheets

* Liaising/working with the end client (and their other tower suppliers) regarding dependencies that need to be completed to enable the exit to progress

* Agreeing (External) change schedules with Highway England, drafting and/or working with tech resources to draft the changes required

* Ensure changes are fully resourced in advance of submission to Tech Review/CAB

* Submission of changes to change management team

* Presenting the changes to Tech and CAB reviews to obtain approval, supporting a tech resources who might be presenting changes

* Managing changes through to completion

* Working with P&I (Planning and Installation teams inACP andBBP) to agree internal changes (un-racking of hardware and secure disposal), this includes:

* Providing the required information to P&I to enable them to obtain quotes for the secure disposal

* Obtaining approval for the spend (disposal costs) and raising PO's

* Agreeing the change schedule with the P&I team

* Drafting said changes and submission via the account change manager, once approved the P&I team implement as agreed

Managing bid responses:

* Liaising with internal / external stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear and understood

* Working with the client TA to agree the solution to be proposed

* Producing the draft CRF responses, including the estimates that underpin the responses

* Taking the draft responses through the internal approval, considering review comments & making any amendments to the draft responses that are required to enable approval to be given

Other activities not listed but noted here revolve around the BAU work mentioned and include:

* supporting the SDM's with queries they might have, attending service management meetings with the SDM' the customer and SiAM tower

* updating the monthly service reports

* getting involved in incident and problem management where assistance can be provided

* responding to generic queries/requests that come in from the end client and other towers on a regular basis, this can be a real mixed bag and range from mundane things such as dealing with UKSP/token requests for other towers

* to responding to requests related to the annual IT health check completed by the end client or queries related to critical patch/vulnerability warnings issued by vendors etc.