Infrastructure Project Manager

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New, fantastic opportunities have arisen for experienced Project Managers and Senior Project Managers to join our flourishing projects practice, focussing on complex infrastructure projects.The role will focus on complex single projects, or on multiple projects, of c £300000 - c £2m services value. The successful individual will have significant experience in managing this type of engagement, and will be highly proficient in change management, and managing the scope of projects. He or she will also be used to managing virtual teams and will come from a background where the focus will have been on technology oriented projects. Typical infrastructure projects will include contractual service transitions, transformation projects, datacentre relocations, Rollouts, WAN projects, IP projects, VDI/Virtualisation engagements. The successful individual will not be aligned to any specific vertical sector or line of business, but will operate across all.

Roles & Responsibilities

Defining, shaping and leading projects, which can be of a large and/or strategic and/or complex nature.

This includes:

· Employing accurate estimating techniques, and to use product-based planning, risk management, change management, monitoring and control appropriately.

· Running projects adopting the accepted best practices including Prince2, and ensuring the project team do so too.

· Monitoring, and reporting on, the overall profitability of the project

· Escalating promptly any issues that may in future have an impact on Computacenter or the future relationship with the customer.

· Running stages, tranches or other parts of a complex or large project or programme on behalf of a Snr PM

· Conducting activities that lead to a customer purchasing project services

· Participating in pre-sales presentations and meetings

· Working closely with management to develop and enhance service offerings

· Contributing to company and cross-function service developments

· In each of the above duties the following approach is required:

· To work effectively with their project team, their customer, their management, and the others stakeholders in Computacenter and the project. This must include effective communication, working with customers, Computacenter sales teams and internal and external service providers to develop relationships and hence increase sales.

· Be aware of, and, if necessary, act upon the legal context of their project.

· Gains a full understanding of the project finances including the management of the project code.

Key Requirements

· Holds Prince2 Practitioner qualification

· Must have experience in having managed at least 3 large infrastructure projects of £300000 services value (excluding hardware)

· Literate (able to write credible documents) and numerate (confident with calculating costs and margins)

· Experience of running a number of large or complex infrastructure projects successfully

· P&L management experience

· Intimate knowledge of change management, risk management, setting up and initiating projects.

· Able to run Project Definition Workshops

· Has a technical appreciation

· Has the ability to be "hands on"

· Experienced in writing proposals

· Able to get on with all levels of people

· A good influencer

· Holds current driving licence and able and willing to drive

Computacenter is Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. We advise customers on their IT strategy, implement the most appropriate technology from a wide range of leading vendors and manage their technology infrastructures on their behalf.We deliver on-site services in nearly 60 countries and supply IT hardware and software to customers in more than 100 countries. At every stage we make our customers' businesses sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change across their IT infrastructures.Our corporate and government clients are served by offices across the UK, Germany,France, the Benelux region, Switzerland as well as our Group Service Desk, which has operations in the UK, Germany, Spain, South Africa and Malaysia. Via this shared service facility, more than 1,100 native-speaking employees provide end user support in 18 languages. We handle in excess of four million contacts per year.

Key facts about Computacenter

· Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services & solutions

· Achieved first place in KPMG Service Provider Performance and Satisfaction Survey for 2013

gaining the highest outsourcing satisfaction rating for the second year running

· Named EMEA Enterprise Management Partner of the year 2013 at VMworld 2013 Europe

· McAfee UK & Ireland Partner of the year for 2013

· HP Server Partner of the year 2013

· Cloud Builder Partner of the Year 2013, UK and Ireland, awarded at Cisco’s World Partner Summit

· NetApp Star Partner for 2013

· EMC Enterprise Partner of the year 2012

· EMEA Business Continuity Competency Award winner at VMware Partner Exchange 2013

Computacenter is an accredited ‘Investors in People’ and an equal opportunity employer that welcomes diversity.

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