Project Manager
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Location: Bristol or Farnborough (office based)
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Mon to Fri
Who We Are
We're a global technology communications company that empowers people and businesses to stay connected and thrive in a digital world. With a focus on innovation, sustainability and earning customer loyalty, we leverage cutting-edge technology to offer products and services that enhance communication and improve lives.
At Vodafone UK, diversity isn't just a buzzword, it is core to who we are as a company. We're proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and are committed to driving inclusion for all; creating a workplace that is fully representative of the communities and customers we serve.
Join our Security team and experience bringing intelligent technology and advanced threat expertise to organisations that form the UK's Critical National Infrastructure, this specialist team helps to simplify their day-to-day cyber security operations, enabling their own people to focus on their bigger strategic priorities.
What you'll do
This role will lead and take ownership of Vodafone Business Security Enhanced customer projects, adhering to programme delivery methodology, in such a way that each underlying project or workstream is accomplished to the complete satisfaction of the customer, on schedule, quality assured and within budget.
You will ensure that Customer projects/programme workstreams are planned, coordinated and communicated in a professional manner, keeping Customer stakeholders regularly informed of progress, and ensuring that all stakeholder expectations are managed and that Customer commitments are consistently met.
Typical contract value(s) £10m+ with the responsibility of managing large virtual teams and reporting to C level executives. Experience of delivering a range of portfolio solutions and non standard solutions.
• Act as advisor to the Bid Team on all Project elements as required and agreed for proposal submission; delivering the needed governance documentation (High Level Plan, Project Definition Document-PDD) and provide guidance to Solution Architect regarding creation Statement of Work.
• Prepare and deliver Project Plan (outlining the activities, tasks, dependencies and timeframes) as to be jointly baselined with the Customer and placed under change control.
• Lead the virtual project team (as the overall primary point of contact and escalation point), coordinate all project delivery activities and ensure that all key milestones are met.
• Execute the project governance and chair both operational and strategic project review boards.
• Proactively provide the project customer and internal stakeholders with frequent programme progress reports, highlighting Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies and Changes.
• Effectively manage project budget and revenue plan.
• Ensure that a clean hand-over to the Customer & Service Management team at the close of each project is facilitated.
• Carry out thorough Customer facing Lessons Learned session and distribute output report within Delivery team.
Who you are
• Extensive Project Management skills and experience required.
• Exposure to commercial management contractual negotiation experience.
• Experience of delivering mobility, LAN, WAN, IPT,Security and managed solutions desired.
• Build strong relationships with customers, delivery partners and external vendors.
• Ability to manage from a distance, including resources who work for other organisations.
• Strong written and oral communications skills (including C-level communication) required.
• Exceptional interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, integrity, respect for confidentiality, sound judgment and decision making skills.
• Ability to lead and motivate project teams to successfully deliver the project within agreed time scales, assigned budget and to high quality standards.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMI-PMP qualification
What we offer
We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools and market leading parental leave policies.
Together we can
Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/applying-to-vodafone/) for guidance.
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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.