Senior Project Manager
Eligible Work Locations: London, United Kingdom Remote Work from Home
Role Type: Contract to Hire
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The Sr .Project Manager is responsible for managing large and complex technical projects, leveraging project management best practices to drive continuous improvement, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. The Sr Project Manager is expected to weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders, act with the highest professionalism and exercise independent judgment and decision-making.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple and large complex projects with multiple work streams
- Ability to create in depth WBS with interdependencies and a defined critical path
- Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills; Develop and execute an efficient internal and external communication strategy for ensuring communication with all levels of management within the team
- Monitors and reports on project progress to stakeholders
- Builds and strengthens relationships with the customer and stakeholders (internal and external)
- Responsible for creation and maintenance of resource plans ensuring effective resource allocation and distribution across portfolio of projects
- Utilizes project management tools and techniques to improve execution and drive efficiencies.
- Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology
- Ensures profitable and successful execution of all assigned engagements as measured by regional goals and customer feedback
- Proactively manages changes in project scope
- Effectively creates and executes risk management plans
- Manages and analyzes profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects
- Understands and manages key project financial components to ensure projects are delivered within budget
- Responsible for quality and timely execution of deliverables across projects
- A minimum of 8 years' progressive experience in a related field
- Working knowledge of both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management, in a technology industry.
- Experience managing client expectations, vendor terms, and internal resource alignment
- Demonstrated leadership in providing project deliverables as assigned.
- Ability to manage budgets, analyze financial reports, and track profitability across projects.
- Skilled at navigating complex challenges with analytical rigor
- Understand difference between a risk and issue, and skills required to drive risk and issue resolution.
- Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines.
- Proficiency in managing multiple projects, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines
- Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
- Experience in effectively influencing and leading internal and external teams.
- Ability to influence, motivate, and guide cross-functional teams
- Excellent problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to engage clients, teams, and executives
- Proficiency with project management software.
- Experience delivering project management in a professional services environment