IT Project Manager (Telephony, Cloud, SAAS)

IT Project Manager (Telephony, Cloud, SAAS)

Posted 1 week ago by Hays

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£525 Per day
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Hybrid
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Summary: The IT Project Manager role focuses on delivering a portfolio of projects related to infrastructure, telephony, and Azure over a 3-6 month period. The position requires hands-on management, effective vendor management, and the ability to create detailed project plans. Candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments and possess strong communication skills to engage with various stakeholders. The role is based in Lancashire with a hybrid working arrangement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Creation of project proposals and/or business cases for technical projects in conjunction with IT/Tech Business Stakeholders.
  • Develop and deliver a rolling programme/workstack for agreed technical projects, providing an ongoing forward view of required change.
  • Own the production of detailed project plans, providing project reporting and appropriate documentation.
  • Conduct capacity planning and resource modelling to inform sequencing and accurately forecast demand for different skillsets.
  • Contract management of services provided by third parties to strict KPIs.
  • Provide effective planning, control, and monitoring of the project budget, including resource utilisation and external costs.

Key Skills:

  • Previous experience managing a small portfolio of multiple IT projects.
  • Experience with telephony, infrastructure, and application projects.
  • Extensive knowledge of Cloud Azure, IaaS, and SaaS.
  • Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application upgrades, and cloud releases.
  • Considerable experience managing and contracting cloud-based service providers, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms.
  • Excellent contract management skills.
  • Experience in demand management and forecasting.
  • Ability to produce clear and concise project plans, reports, and documentation.
  • Proficient in delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., DevOps, SharePoint, MS Teams, Asana).

Salary (Rate): £525.00/daily

City: Manchester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

IT Project Manager (Infrastructure, Telephony, Azure) 3-6 Months Lancashire (1-2 days onsite) £525 a day (Inside IR35) I am currently looking for a hands-on IT Project Manager to deliver a small portfolio of projects. Candidates must be used to working in a fast-paced setting, be proficient at putting together concise project plans and have previously been involved in discovery projects and programmes. Candidates should have extensive third-party supplier / vendor management and have a strong understanding of horizon scanning and demand planning / forecasting.

  • Duties
  • Creation of project proposals and / or business cases for the technical projects in conjunction the IT/Tech Business Stakeholders.
  • Develop and deliver a rolling programme / workstack of work for the agreed technical projects: Providing an ongoing forward view of required change.
  • Own the production of the detailed project plans, setting guidance to deliver the end-to-end project, providing project reporting and appropriate documentation.
  • Conduct capacity planning and resource modelling to inform sequencing; accurately forecast demand for the different skillsets.
  • Contract management of the delivery of services provided by third parties to strict KPI's.
  • Provide effective planning, control and monitoring of the project budget including resource utilisation and any fixed or external costs.
  • Essential Skills
  • Previous experience of managing a small Portfolio of multiple IT Projects.
  • Experience of working on Telephony, Infrastructure and Application projects.
  • Extensive knowledge of Cloud Azure, IaaS, SaaS.
  • Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application upgrades, and cloud releases.
  • Considerable experience of managing and contracting cloud-based service providers, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms, to a varying degree for differing stakeholders.
  • Excellent contract management skills.
  • Previous experience of demand management and forecasting.
  • Ability to produce clear and concise projects plans, project reports, and documentation.
  • Proficient in use of delivery and collaboration tools (i.e. DevOps, SharePoint. MS Teams, Asana).

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