IT Project Manager
Posted 6 days ago by Pontoon
£500 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Warwick, Warwickshire, UK
Summary: The role of IT Project Manager involves coordinating activities to support the Testing and Integration Programme Manager within a resilience team. This mid-senior level position requires effective project management skills to ensure operational readiness and tooling integration. The candidate will be responsible for translating strategic decisions into actionable plans and tracking progress across various testing and operational activities. The position is based in Warwick, requiring one day of on-site work per week over a six-month contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Tech Services workstream lead by turning strategy and direction into concrete plans, trackers and action lists across testing and operational readiness.
- Coordinate internal verification, audit/build validation, and testing activities, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Act as daily coordinator for defect and testing data, ensuring accurate status views (eg scenarios, test cases, defect counts/age/rework) are available for governance forums.
- Provide governance support: schedule meetings, prepare agendas and notes, maintain RAID/action logs, and ensure follow-through across multiple stakeholder groups.
Key Skills:
- Strong project coordination/PM experience ideally in infrastructure, service management or testing/ops-heavy programmes.
- Familiarity with testing/defect management, operational readiness, and service management concepts (CMDB, RTM, ITIL) is advantageous.
- Comfortable working with data and reporting (Excel/Power BI exposure) and translating business questions into reporting requirements.
- Familiarity with Jira/JSM/SNOW is advantageous.
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder skills, able to manage multiple streams of work with minimal supervision.
Salary (Rate): £500 per day
City: Warwick
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
IT Project Manager
Utilities
1 day per week in Warwick
6 months
£500 per day
In short: We're seeking a mid-senior level IT PM who can coordinate activities whilst support the Testing and Integration Programme Manager in a resilience team.
Role Purpose:
Provide coordination and delivery support to the Tech Services workstream lead across testing, operational readiness, and tooling integration (eg SolarWinds, ServiceNow), ensuring decisions are translated into clear plans, tracking and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Tech Services workstream lead by turning strategy and direction into concrete plans, trackers and action lists across testing and operational readiness.
- Coordinate internal verification, audit/build validation, and testing activities, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Act as daily coordinator for defect and testing data, ensuring accurate status views (eg scenarios, test cases, defect counts/age/rework) are available for governance forums.
- Provide governance support: schedule meetings, prepare agendas and notes, maintain RAID/action logs, and ensure follow-through across multiple stakeholder groups.
Candidate Profile
- Strong project coordination/PM experience ideally in infrastructure, service management or testing/ops-heavy programmes.
- Familiarity with testing/defect management, operational readiness, and service management concepts (CMDB, RTM, ITIL) is advantageous.
- Comfortable working with data and reporting (Excel/Power BI exposure) and translating business questions into reporting requirements.
- Familiarity with Jira/JSM/SNOW is advantageous
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder skills, able to manage multiple streams of work with minimal supervision
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
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