Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager London, England

IBM
Full Time London, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Introduction
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 a successful Technical Project Manager in Technology Expert Labs, you will lead a team of technical experts to ensure the formulation, development, and implementation of software-defined networking projects that meet and exceed the client's critical business objectives, helping them with the design, orchestration, automation, monitoring, and management of their enterprise- and carrier-level networks. In this role, you will work closely with client stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget, schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client's expectations.

Your Role and Responsibilities :

Project Leadership
  • Creating and executing project management plans, including scope and change controls, communication plans with stakeholder meetings, status reporting and project health metrics, and deliverables management with time and financial controls
  • Cultivating teamwork and problem-solving while working under delivery expectations and deadlines
  • Being able to motivate, be realistic, assertive, decisive, enthusiastic, supportive and always in pursuit of excellence.
  • Work closely with clients, Partners and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution.
  • Project Delivery
  • Navigating across venues to resolve issues, developing and document risk mitigation strategies and provide project direction that quickly builds credibility and influences as a trusted advisor
  • Driving client satisfaction and ensuring project completion on time and budget as per the Statement of Work
  • Report and strategize solutions for managing project metrics including project health, financials-costs, revenue, and gross profit, team productivity, and client satisfaction.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
  • Experience of working in a complex Public Sector account
  • Contract management, including understanding of Government framework agreements, Call-Off contracts and development of Statements of Work
  • Strong client facing and stakeholder management skills - experience of dealing with senior members of client leadership team
  • Requirements development - ability to understand client needs and turn those into Statements of Work we can deliver
  • Detailed understanding and experience of IBM release process
  • Supplier management experience, including close working with Procurement and development of back-to-back Subco SOWs

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Language required : English

About Business Unit
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?


About IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Senior Project Manager
IBM

http://www.ibm.com
Armonk, United States
Arvind Krishna
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Information Technology Support Services
1911
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