Manages multiple large, complex technology projects across professional services engagements. Responsibilities include developing work breakdown structures and schedules, coordinating resources, managing scope, risks, issues, budgets, profitability, and quality, and reporting progress to stakeholders. The role leads cross-functional internal and external teams, manages client and vendor relationships, ensures timely deliverables, and drives successful project execution and continuous improvement.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Work Experience
- 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
The Senior 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 Senior 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
World Wide Technology London, England Office
25 Canada Square, London, United Kingdom, E14 5LQ
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