Due to incredible growth, we are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to join our Professional Services team. The Senior Project Manager will interact daily with external customers at C Level. You will be responsible for ensuring every element of your assigned projects meet and where possible exceed the contracted deliverables.
As Senior Project Manager you will also be responsible for ensuring that projects are delivered to scope, on time and within budget. You will act as a trusted advisor to customers through their project leadership expertise and must maintain skills and accreditations to ensure market leading specialisation capability which differentiates the Xalient offering.
Frequent Support to Sales colleagues, providing deep Project knowledge and expertise to assist them to bid best practice and market leading solution proposals.
This role would suit a Senior PM with strong understanding and delivery of LAN/WAN/SDWAN/Cloud Security projects and a background working for a Managed Services Provider or Telecommunications reseller, vendor or similar in a project management function.
Why Xalient?
We take pride in instilling a culture that provides an inspiring and nurturing environment, with growth opportunities that excite our employees, build loyalty and in doing so provide us with clear market differentiation.
At Xalient we design, build and manage software-defined solutions and services that help global enterprises become more resilient, adaptable and responsive to change. Were an innovative and young technology services company with around 150 employees, most based in Leeds (UK), that helps large organisations connect their people and locations across the globe and protects them against growing cyber threats shameless namedrop, but were proud to call Kelloggs, Keurig Dr Pepper, Mondelez & Hamleys our customers (and thats just a few of them!)
Key Responsibilities
- Independent management of any project to which they are assigned. These will vary in both size, complexity and technology.
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Management of customer relationships throughout the project lifecycle Excellent communication and Risk Management are essential to ensure first-rate customer relationships are created and maintained.
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Provide support to the Sales Team in the form of pricing, meeting attendance, creation of project related documentation for tender responses and customer relationship building.
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Provide project governance support for Xalient pre-sales proposals by providing and/or reviewing project related content for/to Sales colleagues
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Build strong relationships with vendor, commercial and technical contacts.
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Responsible for ensuring appropriate Acceptance into Service standards have been met as part of their project delivery.
Skills and experience
Essential
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At least 5 years experience working for a MSP or Telecommunications reseller, vendor or similar, in a project management function.
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PRINCE 2 qualified essential, Agile /PMP methodology trained preferable.
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. You should be confident to communicate with CXO level staff within small and large enterprises.
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A strong understanding of LAN/WAN/SDWAN/Cloud Security technologies.
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Exceptional time management and organisational skills.
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Commercial acumen, ability to manage Budgets, time and scope.
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Positive in attitude and decisive in approach.
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Capable of influencing key decisions, leading escalations and problem-solving.
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Required to travel to customers in the UK, as and when required.
Job Offer
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Competitive salary
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Discretionary bonus
- Flexible benefits fund
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25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and 1 day in birth month)
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Company laptop and iPhone
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Private medical insurance
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Remote working
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Pension
Xalient
We are an award-winning, IT consulting and managed services business, specialising in modern, software-defined networking, security and communications technologies, delivering innovative solutions and services to major organisations right across the globe.
Our service portfolio ranges from consulting strategies and assessments through to solution design, deployment and fully managed services, incorporating market-leading technologies in each of our specialist areas.
In 2021 Xalient was named by Dun & Bradstreet as #6 in its inaugural Accelerate 50, recognising the 50 fastest growing tech companies headquartered in the UK.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.