Project Manager

UK APPLICATIONS ONLY

EBC Group, an established MSP based in Halesowen with over 30 years of experience, are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to oversee the meticulous planning, execution, and delivery of various IT projects. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams from pre-sales, project engineers and service delivery to ensure successful project delivery.

The ideal candidate will take responsibility for the definition, documentation, and successful completion of projects as well as:

• Ensuring effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes.
• Developing and maintaining project plans and timelines.
• Monitor and manage resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget, updating all project stakeholder regularly. Effective budget management throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies, policies, and standards.
• Develop and maintain relationships with both internal and external project stakeholders.
• Maintaining and upholding the communication management plan. Proactive and outstanding communication skills where all project stakeholders are engaged throughout the lifecycle of project.
• Efficient project resource management, including project teams, third-party vendors, and software providers. Arranging third-party vendor calls and scheduling key migration dates for projects.
• Validating business requirement confirmation for all projects.
• Ensure successful project delivery within project, time, and scope creep tolerance.
• Creation and ownership of RAID documentation. Managing risks and issues effectively, operating within risk tolerances and escalating to project stakeholders when required.
• Upholding project governance, providing weekly project status reporting and gate reviews. Quality assurance carried out at each project gate.
• Providing project checkpoint reports for the PMO and Programme Board.
• Facilitate meetings whilst collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve project issues.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies, policies, procedures, and standards. Facilitating continual improvement of project management processes.
• Ensure effective change management processes are maintained to manage project scope changes.
• Planning for Service Acceptance and working with Service Delivery to ensure seamless transition to BAU.
• Maintain documentation of lessons learnt, post implementation reviews, client project sign offs, operational readiness confirmation, benefit realisation and project closure report.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Extensive background in managing IT projects with a key focus on:

- Cloud Technologies

- IT Security Services

- Microsoft Azure Services

- Citrix and Windows

• Proficient understanding of the Microsoft product suite.
• Highly IT literate.
• Awareness of ITIL.
• Experience of both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
• Minimum PRINCE2 certified.
• Experience of end-to-end project lifecycle delivery.
• Confident conduit between departments.
• Some experience with project management tools (Monday, JIRA and Wrike -preferable but not essential).
• Proactive problem management.
• Effective communicator both with both internal and external project stakeholders.
• Process driven.
• Ability to handle stressful situations with professionalism and perseverance.
• Proficient experience in managing multiple projects and multi-tasking.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £28,000.00-£48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Halesowen: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

• Do you currently reside in the UK?

Experience:

• Project Management: 3 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person