Manager, Project and Program Management Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England
Job description
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.
We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,000+ networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.
A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
Job Summary
Guides and advises the team to complete their projects and is responsible for ensuring that standards are followed.
Responsibilities
People Management
Provides guidance to others who are driving delivery of day-to-day projects
Planning
Advises the team on a range of approaches to planning and gathering information across functional and cross functional projects
Will be responsible for ensuring standards are in place and followed by the team
May be responsible for planning team growth requirement
Stakeholder Management
Identifies and anticipates project engagement needs on behalf of the team's projects in order to advise team members when required
Encourages asks for feedback on the team or individuals
Is an escalation point to resolve Stakeholder issues within the team
Communications
Is able to advise on communication requirements and improves the team's communications standards
Advises the team to think more broadly or more focused on consistent communications as and when required
Risk Management
Advises the team on risk and issue management and the appropriate levels of control
Supports the team on the resolution of escalated issues
Project/Program Delivery
Guides and oversees the team to successfully complete their projects on time, within budget, quality and scope
Resource Management (people, finances etc.)
Will provide management updates on a variety of resource management KPI's
Is an escalation point for the team for solving resource/budgetary issues
Contributes and/or responsible for resource planning (people, finances etc.) activities
Project and Program Management Frameworks
Effectively communicates project management methodology and its application to customer solutions
Qualifications
Extensive experience preferred
Diploma to a Bachelor's Degree preferred
Experience of working in Finance, Billing, Credit & Collections
Recognised qualification in Project Management - e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner, APMP Practitioner, MSP, Six Sigma
Proficient in MS Office
Flexibility in working hours when required to support international time zones
Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.
