Project Manager- Infrastruture

Your new company
I'm currently excited to be working with a higher education institute in Birmingham who now require an IT Project Manager to deliver IT and Estates related projects in support of their ongoing infrastructure modernisation and digital transformation strategy.

Your new role
You will be creating and co-ordinating plans that involve estates, operational customers (lecturers/professional service departments) and IT suppliers, infrastructure engineers and IT support teams.
Working closely with senior stakeholders to define project plans and create solutions to ensure the project will deliver agreed business objectives on time, within cost and to defined quality levels
Your role will require you to also work with other project leads and team managers across IT Services and the wider institution to ensure that your infrastructure projects are delivered effectively and that risks and dependencies are managed well alongside other concurrent significant works.
Knowledge and experience of managing and delivering infrastructure projects is essential. You will be able to provide subject matter expert network knowledge on risks and dependencies on challenges around customer requirements and timescales versus capacity both technically and operationally.

What you'll need to succeed

• Prince 2 Practitioner qualification preferable
• Clear, confident and concise communication skills - written and verbal
• Create short, medium and long-term plans with accurate content
• Schedule, monitor and report on project activities to ensure that each part contributes to the overall delivery
• Identify issues with project delivery, cost, risk, interdependencies, impact on current business activities and the benefits to be realised and ensure that these are managed appropriately and reported effectively
• In managing the project, you will work closely with relevant team leads and suppliers to initiate required works, monitor delivery and recommend corrective action where appropriate and report on overall project status.
• Support the strategic engagement with Estates to ensure coherent plans and outcomes
• Work with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders to understand and agree what will meet their needs and to ensure that appropriate expectations are defined.
• Demonstrate a successful track record of managing projects in a complex working environment, especially in any areas of Infrastructure, Audio Visual, Networks and Voice
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, along with strong project management knowledge and experience

What you'll get in return

• 32 days annual leave + 8 public bank holidays
• Plus health and wellbeing benefits

What you need to do now
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