Programme Manager

Company overview:

Midland Computer Services is a managed services provider with 510 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organisations across the UK. Headquartered in London, the company has grown since 2007 by acquiring regional IT providers.

Job summary:

The Programme Manager runs technical projects from kickoff to go-live: plans, risks, budgets and the meetings that hold it together. Our IT team manages around 20 active projects. You'll own four to six of them at a time. Our headquarters is in London, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

What you'll do:

• Build project plans, schedules and work breakdown structures in Smartsheet, MS Project or Jira.
• Escalate blockers early, with options rather than just problems.
• Lead lessons learned sessions at project close.
• Coordinate work across engineering, infrastructure, security and business teams.
• Plan cutovers and go-live runbooks with rollback steps.
• Write status reports that say plainly whether the project is on track.
• Facilitate requirements sessions with business stakeholders.
• Control scope changes through a formal change request process.

Qualifications:

• Solid technical grounding in areas like cloud, networking, ERP or software delivery.
• Experience with both Agile and waterfall delivery.
• Strong budget and vendor management skills.
• Ability to manage several projects at once.
• Comfort holding senior stakeholders to their commitments.

Also helpful:

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

What you get:

• Co-working space stipend.
• Annual team retreat.
• Company laptop.
• Annual learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Midland Computer Services.