Project Manager

Job description

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a successful Project Manager in IBM CIC, you will lead a team of technical experts to ensure the formulation, development, and implementation of projects that meet and exceed the client's business objectives. In this role, you will work closely with client stakeholders and the IBM team to meet the overall integrated solution plan, budget, schedule, and staffing requirements while exceeding your client's expectations. Project Managers at IBM succeed by demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and presenting solutions.

If you are passionate about success, with both your career and solving clients' business challenges, this role is for you. To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' of this opportunity may include, but not be limited to…

Project Management: Creating and executing project management plans including, financial, scope, and change, deliverables and communication controls.
Cross-Team Communication: Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with the client, partner, and account team on project status.
Reporting and Metrics Management: Report and strategize solutions for managing project metrics including project health, financials-costs, revenue, and gross profit, team productivity, and client satisfaction.
Building Credibility and Influences: Navigating across venues to resolve issues, developing and documenting risk mitigation strategies, providing project direction that quickly builds credibility and influences as a trusted advisor.
Developing a high-performing team: Cultivating teamwork and problem-solving while working under delivery expectations and deadlines.
Empathy and Service Skills: Demonstrating empathy and service orientation skills for client success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Enterprise planning and dependency mapping.
·  Enterprise design thinking techniques to get to solutions.
·  Understanding of DevOps.
·  Excellent written and verbal communication with empathy e.g. explaining any roadblocks.
·  Techniques to shape and prioritise backlogs, techniques for building out roadmaps/release plans.
·  Stakeholder management.
·  High attention to detail. Building strong rapports with all working levels.
·  High proficiency with Agile way of working i.e. working knowledge of scrum, Kanban or equivalent. Jira. Nice to have skills:
Scaled Agile experience. Delivering solutions aligned to GDS/CDDO. Lean start-up.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Certifications for project/program management: Project or program certifications including but not limited to PMP, CMMI, Scrum Master or Aigle Project Management.
·  Technology Expertise: Experience working with a broad spectrum of technology solutions including Data and AI, Automation, Sustainability, Security, Cloud, Power, Storage and zSoftware or equivalent technologies.
·  Consulting Experience in Cloud Solutions: Experience working in consulting or project management for solutions including SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud.
·  Automation Technology experience: Experience with one more of the following Automation technologies: WebSphere Application Server, Extreme Scale, Cloud Pak for Automation, Cloud Pak for Integration, Tivoli Monitoring, Instana, Netcool, Watson AI Ops or Turbonomics or the equivalent enterprise solution.