IT Project Manager (Telephony, Cloud, SAAS

IT Project Manager (Infrastructure, Telephony, Azure)

6 Months

Lancashire (1-2 days onsite)

£525 a day (Inside IR35)

I am currently looking for a hands-on IT Project Manager to deliver a small portfolio of projects. Candidates must be used to working in a fast-paced setting, be proficient at putting together concise project plans and have previously been involved in discovery projects and programmes. Candidates should have extensive third-party supplier / vendor management and have a strong understanding of horizon scanning and demand planning / forecasting.

Duties

• Creation of project proposals and / or business cases for the technical projects in conjunction the IT/Tech Business Stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver a rolling programme / workstack of work for the agreed technical projects: Providing an ongoing forward view of required change.
• Own the production of the detailed project plans, setting guidance to deliver the end-to-end project, providing project reporting and appropriate documentation.
• Conduct capacity planning and resource modelling to inform sequencing; accurately forecast demand for the different skillsets.
• Contract management of the delivery of services provided by third parties to strict KPI's.
• Provide effective planning, control and monitoring of the project budget including resource utilisation and any fixed or external costs.

Essential Skills

• Previous experience of managing a small Portfolio of multiple IT Projects.
• Experience of working on Telephony, Infrastructure and Application projects.
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud Azure, IaaS, SaaS.
• Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application upgrades, and cloud releases.
• Considerable experience of managing and contracting cloud-based service providers, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms, to a varying degree for differing stakeholders.
• Excellent contract management skills.
• Previous experience of demand management and forecasting.
• Ability to produce clear and concise projects plans, project reports, and documentation.
• Proficient in use of delivery and collaboration tools (i.e. DevOps, SharePoint. MS Teams, Asana).

#4773237 - Simon

I am currently looking for a hands-on IT Project Manager to deliver a small portfolio of projects. Candidates must be used to working in a fast-paced setting, be proficient at putting together concise project plans and have previously been involved in discovery projects and programmes. Candidates should have extensive third-party supplier / vendor management and have a strong understanding of horizon scanning and demand planning / forecasting., * Previous experience of managing a small Portfolio of multiple IT Projects.

• Experience of working on Telephony, Infrastructure and Application projects.
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud Azure, IaaS, SaaS.
• Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application upgrades, and cloud releases.
• Considerable experience of managing and contracting cloud-based service providers, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms, to a varying degree for differing stakeholders.
• Excellent contract management skills.
• Previous experience of demand management and forecasting.
• Ability to produce clear and concise projects plans, project reports, and documentation.
• Proficient in use of delivery and collaboration tools (i.e. DevOps, SharePoint. MS Teams, Asana).