Project Manager

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About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Project Manager

Location: Hybrid based from any of our UK locations - Birmingham, Manchester, Bracknell or London (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 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.

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.
• 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 updates of the project plan
• Manages others to ensure the completion of deliverables to time, cost and quality according to the project plan
• 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
• Agrees on overall budget and margin for a project based on cost model
• Understands the relationship between the resource plan, the cost plan and the margin
• Is responsible for ensuring risks are being actively managed in risk register
• Updates the project plan upon reflection of risks and issues
• Efficiently escalates project issues that enables effective mitigation plans
• Challenges on risk mitigation plans

Skills and experience:

• Broad level of competence IT 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 Workplace, 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.
• Must be able to obtain Security Clearance in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.

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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