Project Manager - SaaS/MarTech - City of London - Competitive Salary
Finitas are working on a search for an experienced Project Manager. It provides the opportunity to work in a series of dynamic market sectors, all of which are facing a broad array of challenges following the outbreak of Covid-19.
You will be managing several high-profile projects for key customers worldwide. Meeting regularly, in person or virtually, with the customers to become a trusted advisor. To deliver projects on time and within budget. To delight our customers.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
- Engage regularly with your assigned Customers
- Proven ability to respond and react to the realities of delivering in large scale, complex projects with distributed teams and multiple partners
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Decide and communicate on project priorities for shared resource planning
- Provide centralised communication about projects, internally and externally
- Build strong relationships with customer stakeholders at all levels, to support ongoing and future opportunities
- Coordinate internal resources, agreeing collective priorities, for the successful execution of projects
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives (lessons learned, feedback, ideas, et cetera)
- Ensure structured testing/QA processes produce quality deliverables
- Innovate and refine standardised processes and templates for PMO
- Implement and maintain change control process
- Clarify customer requirements and help define their success metrics/outcomes from the project
- Measure, monitor and report on project performance, managing risks and issues, using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Provide 'data savvy' insights to inform and resolve challenges - our product is data - our challenges are data related
- Support sales by providing compelling written input articulating the value proposition and capabilities of the CV Services function
- Involvement in project scoping activity during project initiation
STRENGTHS YOU NEED TO PULL ON
- You're a self-starting, high energy individual who owns your responsibilities
- You're not fazed by running multiple projects at the same time
- You've familiarity of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid project delivery methodologies
- You have direct experience of working successfully with distributed teams
- You're outcome focused, and output focused on a day to day basis. You drive pace and maintain motivation
- You're willing to travel up to 50% of the time
- You have some knowledge of hardware, networking & infrastructure elements (Server and / or cloud) as our software relies on physical devices.
- Experience of working in the Airport sector, or other heavily utilised areas (Transport hubs, Event Venue Management, etc), would be a bonus
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Customer focussed
- Written and verbal communication
- Project management
- Initiation
- Scope definition and refinement
- Planning
- Coordinate shared resources
- Produce and manage delivery documentation
- Monitoring and control
- Reporting
- Change management
- Risk and Issue management
- Data understanding
- Willingness to travel
DESIRABLE SKILLS
- Pre-Sales and presentations
- Full project lifecycle experience
- Account management
- Working with vendors and partners
- Data charting and presentation
- Software
- Office software (word / google docs / etc)
- Jira / Confluence
- Airport / relevant vertical experience
- Project management qualification
EXPERIENCE
- BS in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other appropriate field; advanced degrees welcome but not required
- Minimum 5+ years of software project management experience, preferably on the consulting side
- PMP, or similar project management qualification, welcome but not required