project manager Reading, England

Black Box

Full Time Reading, England 66603 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Black Box is hiring a Project Manager - Cabling Infrastructure in UK!!!

Objectives of the job: To manage large-scale UK & EMEA Hardware Infrastructure Projects (Structured Cabling, Fiber, etc), Support Contracts and Key Accounts. Ensuring Quality of both installations and service delivery as well as increasing revenue potential, and profitability and ensuring client retention and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Run multiple projects and converse at a senior level within the accounts.
Be the primary interface and contact on behalf of Black Box to Key UK clients and customer project leaders, including where necessary leading the tender responses and presentations to the potential customers.
Some pre-sales duties, for example, influencing opportunity qualification and producing quotes and tender documents
Development and implementation of necessary working processes and project delivery procedures to successfully deliver key projects, support contracts and/or generally service key client requirements
Be responsible for controlling these projects, and support contracts on site, to ensure the standard of workmanship is as expected, and to deal with any H&S, personnel, or site issues as they arise
Be responsible for controlling the project finances and financial reporting in monthly or ad-hoc reporting meetings. This will include P&L, estimations, quotations, invoicing, variations and forecasting.
Risk Management and Quality Control of the project and other support activities carried out on the clients’ sites from a commercial and technical aspect as well as ensuring H&S requirements are met in full

Key Competencies

Ability to commercially track projects
Excellent project planning and people management skills
Good Commercial and Negotiation Skills and ability to control project finances
Excellent technical datacomms knowledge & understanding
The ability to delegate tasks and motivate teams to achieve their goals
Good internal and external communication skills both written and oral
Ability to work and manage in high-pressure and time-critical situations
Ability to Deliver results, think around potential obstacles and meet objectives

Necessary qualifications/ experience

Min 5 years of Project experience, within the industry
Commercially aware
Preferably Prince 2, or a similar standard of Project Management
Prepared to travel to the site and possibly stay away from home as necessary

Additional information

The ideal candidate needs to be located/living in the vicinity of the Midlands/M4 corridor between Swindon and London.

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What's in it for You?

Joining Black Box means you’ll have the opportunity to work on exciting, highly visible projects with our customers. You’ll get to know large and small organizations across the world and work to deliver best in class IT solutions. You’ll be rewarded with a variety of experiences, development opportunities and exposure to some of the world's most admired companies. In addition to these rewarding experiences, you’ll have access to our comprehensive Total Rewards Program. Our program continues to evolve to meet the needs of our dynamic workforce by providing a variety of benefits which are applicable and competitive for each country & region.

About Black Box

Black Box is the trusted global solutions integrator and digital technology partner. With nearly 45 years of experience connecting people and devices, we are an organization of top technical professionals dedicated to delivering solutions and services that help organizations design, build, manage, and secure their communications and IT infrastructure and networks. Technologies include 5G/OnGo, connected buildings, digital workplace, multisite deployments, data centers, and IoT.

We also design and manufacture award-winning products for Pro AV, KVM, cabling, and networking known for their advanced functionality, flawless performance, outstanding reliability and fail-safe security. We deliver high-value technology services and products through our values, such as innovation, ownership, transparency, respect and open-mindedness combined with our global presence and 2,500+ team members in 24 countries and growing. Black Box is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AGC Networks.

Black Box is an equal opportunity employer. Black Box does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status, and endorses those policies and practices which seek to recruit, hire, train and promote the most qualified persons into available jobs.

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