JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Key Accountabilities
- General
Project Management
- • Effectively leads, drives and executes projects using Waterfall methodology in order to achieve outcomes that meet the customer’s success criteria.
Pre-Sales Engagement
- Provides guidance for and assists with the creation of proposals, RFP/RFI responses, & Statements of Work (SoW). This includes the analysis and development of scope, duration, deliverables, resources, risk, assumptions and dependencies.
- Exhibits strong commercial acumen and calm gravitas when negotiating with customers or partners during contractual discussions
- Regularly collaborates with Sales pursuit teams, Programme & Project Managers, Technical Consultants, Solutions Architects, Partners, and extended cross-functional teams during presales and project delivery to ensure timely delivery and awareness of potential problems or risk requiring resolution or mitigation.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Expertise / Qualifications
- PMP/Prince2 (Practitioner) certification (minimum)
- Working knowledge/certification in one or more additional project management methodologies: PMP, PRINCE2, Foundation and Expert level certification in Azure / AWS/ GCP.
- Understanding of Agile mythologies and Principles
- 5+ Years of Project Management experience in successfully delivering Cloud Transformation Projects incl. DC Migrations, Applications Modernization, DevOps Transformation, and Software Development using cloud native technologies of AWS/AZURE/GCP.
- Technical conversational knowledge in the following areas: Cloud Migration Strategy and Methodology , Data centre strategy & operations, capacity, utilisation, performance backup, storage, disaster recovery, migration & consolidation, Applications Modernization, IT Service Management and Service Delivery.
- Should have relevant experience in managing Medium and large project / Program.
- Proven ability to organise and execute projects in a consistent, repeatable and reliable manner.
- Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation, human relations and organization skills.
- Able to resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Ability to communicate technical information and ideas so others will understand.
- Excellent all round knowledge of cloud technologies, IT operations, project management operations.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
- Adept at handling shifting priorities and ambiguity.
- Enterprise level use of MS Office suite and knowledge of other project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Trello etc)
Experience
- • (essential) 5+ years project management experience in scoping, planning, leading and monitoring large scale, complex technical projects from initiation through delivery preferably in managed services or hosting.
- • (essential) 5+ years working on technology projects including one or more of the following:
- o Virtualisation technologies / cloud platforms.
- o Application / platform migration.
- o Data / storage / network migration and/or management.
- • (desired) previous experience of directly managing other PMs / technical resources
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS & OBJECTIVES:
- High NPS scores for client engagements
- 360 degree feedback from peers & sales
- Interaction and contribution to extended peers and cross-functional teams
MAIN CONTACTS
- Customers – Enterprise CIO / CTO / Programme & IT Directors – weekly basis
- Senior Director of Global Solutions and Services – weekly basis
- Leaders of Sales and Support (including Directors and VPs) – weekly basis
- Director of Professional Services – daily basis
- Project Management Teams – daily basis Technical Consulting Teams – daily basis
- Sales Teams – daily basis
- Rackers – daily basis
- Peer Management team – daily basis
