Project Manager

**Are you a Project Manager looking for a new challenge?**

We are seeking an experienced I.T. Project manager support with the busy project deliverables. You will be key in delivering a number of digital transformation projects, all within a collaborative and supportive environment where growth is always encouraged.

You will be encouraged to feed into processes to ensure the service offered is relevant and up to date whilst working on end to end projects from outlining business case stages through to implementation and contract management.

If you are an outstanding and highly motivated individual with passion and desire to contribute to the positive reputation of our business, we would love to hear from you

**What you will be doing**:

- Responsible for creating accurate project specific plans (including project schedule, quality, risk and communication plans) according to agreed scope, and tracks activities against the project schedule.
- Responsible for implementing and managing change control procedures - ensuring project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets.
- Responsible for managing project risks, actions, issues and decisions (RAID), ensuring effective logging, ownership, completion, and/or mitigations are in place.
- Participate in and lead client meetings and presentations.
- Responsible for adherence to agreed governance processes and procedures.
- Provide internal and external stakeholders timely program/project information, scheduled and ad-hoc as required.
- Serve as primary link between operational delivery, support teams and clients - ensuring all project and program-specific needs are met.

**What you will bring**:

- Prior and demonstrable I.T. project management experience (certification and/or performance in existing project management role).
- Excellent client focused and interpersonal communication skills, verbal (presentation, ad-hoc and over phone) and written (technical and non-technical
- documentation, presentation materials etc.).
- Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks and prioritise workload with attention to detail.
- Ability to influence and lead others without having direct line management responsibility over them.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you
**Full time permanent
Location Cheltenham
Security Clearance Level - must be eligible for DV clearance
Internal Recruiter Josh
Salary up to £60,000
Benefits £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund**

**Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?**

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privilegedenvironment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work forthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety
- and security-critical markets.

Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, alongwith supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.