Project Manager, Operations Manager, IT Project Manager

Overview

Location: London (client-site based as required; occasional meetings in Isleworth)
Salary: Competitive
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time

We are seeking an experienced and independent Project Manager to assist in project and problem management. The successful candidate will coordinate and direct all facets of the problem management effort, including bringing the right teams, tools, and information together. You will effectively drive the execution of the clients’ installation, service, and advanced solutions strategies to exceed client expectations with cost-effective solutions.

Also, you will provide project oversight, assisting the wider team and partners to ensure client satisfaction, financial performance, and account growth.

The PM will sit within our PM team reporting into our Managing Director and act as part of the team who are the client’s primary representative for any given project/problem.

Key responsibilities

• Budget & Schedule Management: full budgetary and schedule accountability for many client projects. The PM will review and revise the management strategies for commercial delivery responsibilities, including conformance to a range of project reporting requirements while liaising with the MD around these.
• Vendor Management: review and assist with the management of successful vendors under existing contractual terms. This includes all aspects of cost, schedule and quality management required to deliver the project. The PM will set up and run coordination meetings with vendor PMs to manage project risks and issues, document progress and provide quality assurance across all aspects of the project.
• Client and Stakeholder Management: operate in a complex stakeholder environment. Assist the Account Director/Programme Manager and stakeholders, advising on how to manage and coordinate a wide range of requirements to align with project requirements with internal compliance and governance stipulations.
• Troubleshooting: look at outside solutions, make suggestions for improvement and review existing procedures and processes. Develop fall-back plans should the preferred solution be delayed or unavailable by researching, diagnosing, and identifying solutions while following escalation procedures both internal and external.

• Proven experience in the management and delivery of projects within a corporate security environment. This experience could have been developed either through the integrator market or from client-side career history. This experience must include contract management on projects with a value greater than £1M.
• Capable of managing complex stakeholder environments within an operational corporate security environment. Candidates must have the skills and aptitude to make decisions happen quickly and efficiently whilst maintaining the best interests of the business and its clients.
• Demonstrable expertise in the deployment and management of integrated physical and technical security systems. This will include a comprehensive understanding of the IT, network, and M&E environment that an enterprise-level access control system needs to be deployed into.
• Capable of delivering project reports and technical documentation, including: commercial reports (progress against budget and schedule), RAID Logs, Project Dashboards, and Change control documentation.
• Proven record of successful project management in comparable environments, capable of delivering quality products and outcomes within a complex and time-poor environment.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the SharePoint platform.

• Monday to Friday 08:30 – 17:00 with 1 hour lunch, 15:30 finish on Friday.
• Salary: £60k +
• Paid travel
• 24 days annual leave + Bank Holidays and your birthday day. Annual leave increases by 1 day per annum to a maximum of 27 days.
• Healthcare after 6 months probationary period
• Pension

BS7858/BPSS compulsory screening will be carried out.