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Role: Lead Project Manager
Location: Birmingham & Customer site visits when required (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: Competitive base salary, Company Car/Allowance, bonus plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
The Lead Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the successful completion of professional services projects for SCC’s end customers and will ensure that all Projects are delivered with a mix of time and materials and fixed price contracts toward high profile public sector and private sector clients.
Security Clearance or the willingness to apply will be required for this position
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure correct start up and management of the project, via the Acceptance into Projects process, implementing the SCC model and agreed procedures set out within the PMO governance model utilising SCCs chosen project management system and document repository tools.
- Responsible for running projects of larger scale, scope, complexity, risk and financial value.
- Documents MSP plans to the appropriate level of detail and quality for different stages of the project.
- Performs critical path analysis on plans & prioritises resource allocation to the tasks within the critical path.
- Identifies and manages the interdependencies with a project.
- Leads on the development and the updates of the project plan.
- Manages others to ensure the completion of deliverables to time, cost and quality according to the project plan.
- Collaborate with engineering leads to define project deliverables, set milestones, and allocate resources effectively.
- Develops a change control plan to help achieve the projects objectives.
- Accountable for the handover of project deliverables to customer / business as usual teams.
- Recognises and communicates early warning signs of scope creep.
- Reports and escalates any changes to the project, ensuring the change control process is followed.
- Assesses the impact of the change to the project plan and objectives of the project.
- Assesses and prioritises stakeholder’s requirements and manage their expectations.
- Manages financial performance (cost and margin) on a project.
- Understands and presents information contained within financial reports and adjusts project accordingly.
Skills and experience:
- Must be able to obtain Security levels required in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.
- Broad level of competence IT (Information Technology) or related industry, with a demonstrable ability of delivering complex projects on-time, to budget and quality.
- Ability to forecast complex project budgets and deliver against forecast with the ability to clearly communicate and escalate where budget will be breached.
- Demonstrable ability of ensuring projects run to the agreed base line and knowledge to foresee and enact relevant change processes where necessary.
- Demonstrable ability of running large scale, simultaneous, high-profile projects successfully.
- Understanding of the Digital Workplace, Networking and Enterprise, what this means and the key customer challenges and technical solutions in this space.
- Project team management to ensure that the candidate always leads by example.
- Relationship building, communications and management skills both with internal and external stakeholders.