Job description
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!
Your Role and Responsibilities
As our next Digital Engineering Project manager, Your purpose in this role is to lead business transformation programmes in the Digital Engineering space within IBM Consulting. Our Project Manager – Digital Engineering will run a team of multi-disciplinary, cross-vendor individuals across multiple geographies to deliver some of our client’s most complex projects. You will be the face of IBM to the client for your project. You will bring a wealth of experience and expertise in the Digital Engineering space to your engagements. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex integrations, business process transformations and business change initiatives. You will manage multi-million-pound budgets to execute delivery across multiple third parties, such as client, IBM, vendor and contractor resources.
Working alongside our talented and widely experienced consultants, you’ll have the opportunity to lead innovative solutions which overcome complex business challenges. On a daily basis, you’ll transform Digital Engineering’s performance and deliver real business improvements for our clients. Whether it’s strategy and transformation or implementation programmes, your advice will help our clients to operate more efficiently and effectively. What’s more, you’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently in development in the UK across Aerospace and Defence, Automotive, Consumer Package Goods and Formula 1.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the planning, management and delivery of Digital Engineering projects.
- Build & manage the delivery relationship with our clients, stakeholders, vendors and delivery partners.
- Ensure projects adhere to IBM’s and/or client’s governance frameworks and controls.
- Manage project financials and commercials.
- Work with teams across the project lifecycle to define the integrated delivery schedule and track and report progress against this schedule.
- Represent IBM at Steering Boards, reporting on the status of our Digital Engineering projects.
- Identify opportunities to add further value and engage with the IBM practice to bring subject matter expertise to realise the opportunities.
The position will involve travel throughout the UK and Ireland. The selected candidate must be based in the UK and be able to travel and work independently.
Languages required: English ( fluent in spoken and written English ). Please note candidates applying to this position need to live and work in the UK and not require sponsorship from IBM.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- In depth knowledge of the Product Lifecycle Management and Digital Engineering domain.
- Strong consulting skills gained within a professional consulting group or working in the industry. * Aerospace / Defense
- Evidence of working in and contributing to successful client projects.
- A high level of personal belief and passion.
- Proven ability to build new and maintain existing professional networks.
- Manage client relationships so IBM is viewed as a preferred provider of consulting services.
- Establish and maintain skills and personal eminence in the market.
- Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
- Strong project management skills demonstrated in the Digital Engineering space.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Strong consulting skills gained within a professional consulting group or working in industry.*Aerospace / Defence
- Engineering or Industrial background.
- Digital Engineering skills and experience. Ideally familiarity in delivering Siemens, Dassault and other PLM vendor products.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Project Management Principals and methods such as PRINCE2 and/or Agile.
- Communicate articulately and effectively at all levels of business.
- Building excellent client relationships.
- Strong IT Skills are required; Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint.
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