About The Role
We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role: Cloud Project Manager (Private Cloud)
Location: Birmingham (SCC operates hybrid working, which comprises a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: 12 months Fixed Term contract
Salary Package: Competitive base salary plus company benefits
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 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 Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the successful completion of 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.
For this role you must be able to obtain Security Clearances in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.
This is a 12 month fixed term contract.
Key responsibilities:
* Deliver clear and concise stakeholder management internal and customer-facing including Project Board creation, liaison with other key SCC service providers and 3rd party organisations.
* Run and manage Key Projects within Digital.
* Perform critical path analysis on plans & prioritise resource allocation to the tasks within the critical path.
* Drive the projects under control, creating necessary escalations to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget.
* Identify and manage the interdependencies with a project.
* Lead on the development and the updates of the project plan.
* Manage 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.
* Develop a change control plan to help achieve the project objectives.
* Accountable for the handover of project deliverables to customer / business as usual teams.
* Recognise and communicate early warning signs of scope creep.
* Report and escalate any changes to the project, ensuring the change control process is followed.
* Assess the impact of the change to the project plan and objectives of the project.
* Assess and prioritise stakeholder’s requirements and manage their expectations.
* Manage financial performance on a project reporting to key stakeholders as necessary.
* Understand and present information contained within financial reports and adjust project accordingly.
* Understand and manage the relationship between the resource plan, the cost plan and the margin.
* Be responsible for ensuring risks are being actively managed in the risk register.
* Update the project plan upon reflection of risks and issues.
* Efficiently escalate project issues that enables effective mitigation plans.
* Challenge on risk mitigation plans.
Skills and experience:
* Must be able to obtain Security Clearances in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.
* Ideally good knowledge of data centre moves with a strong technical background.
* Broad level of competence in IT (Information Technology) or related industry, with a demonstrable ability of delivering complex projects on-time, to budget and quality.
* Ability to forecast project budgets and deliver against forecast with clear communication and escalation where budget will be breached.
* Demonstrable ability of running several simultaneous high-level projects successfully.
* Understanding of the Digital platforms, 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.
* Strong relationship building, communications and management skills both with internal and external stakeholders.
* Organised and structured approach to project documentation and project artefacts.
About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
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