Senior Project Manager

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe!

We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our clients’ existing technology investments.

☁️ In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!

🌍 We have over 1000 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux, South Africa, Malaysia & Ireland.

The role 
The Senior Project Manager will be accountable for leading and driving customer
modernisation and cloud transformation projects and will play a key role in helping to
continuously improve operational effectiveness, and drive business flexibility, scalability
and growth. The successful Senior Project Manager will have a passion for problem solving, driving change, and bringing people with them on the journey.
The Senior Project Manager will manage a range of projects from discovery through to delivery to optimise technology capabilities, transform business processes and ultimately deliver value back to customers.

Key Responsibilities 
As the Senior Project Manager you will play a key role in:
• Refine and adapt Ekco’s hybrid delivery framework
• Offer guidance and mentor other members of the PMO Team
• Lead the delivery of projects through Discovery, Build and Acceptance into Service to
agreed outcomes
• Engage with key stakeholders and subject matter experts, both internally and externally, building and maintaining strong relationships
• Work with key members of the business to define change management approach where new systems/capabilities require business process change
• Managing dependencies, risks, plans, costs and resourcing for each project and
dependencies across interlinked projects
• Work closely with the Delivery team, Architects, engineers, stakeholders and executives to deliver complex technology solutions that produce business value
• Ability to problem solve and lead teams towards creative solutions to ensure that budget, schedule, scope and quality are all managed for overall project success
• Manage and maintain standard project tools and templates including project schedule,
risk and issue logs, project summary, status reports, action tracking and meeting minutes
• Communicate project status to all levels of corporate personnel to ensure expectations
are clearly maintained

Key Requirements
You will have:
• Minimum 7 years of experience in project delivery
• Proven experience in delivering and managing complex projects across multiple technical towers
• A good technical understanding of cloud and infrastructure principles
• Agile methodology PM experience, ideally having progressed from Prince / Waterfall into more agile project management
• Experience managing Cloud delivery projects that leverage technologies from traditional VMware-based infrastructure; public cloud management with Azure; as well as newer PaaS services etc
• Governance - effective reporting and escalation through a waterfall governance process including risks, issues, dependencies, progress and budgets.
• Confident facilitating the appropriate level of Project meetings such as daily stand-ups, planning meetings, project boards and closures
• Problem solving - ability to identify potential problems and issues proactively and work through them to effective conclusion
• Team working - ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a
range of established professionals and specialists - both internally and externally
• Able to identify, document and communicate issues/risks and dependencies
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills.

The Desirables
• Understanding of core marketing and / or sales concepts
• Prior application delivery experience
• PMI / ACP certification
• PRINCE2

Benefits/Perks

• ☀️ Time off - 25 days leave + public holidays
• 🎂 x1 day Birthday leave per year
• 💰 Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice
• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to dedicated mental health, emotional wellbeing and general advice
• 🏃‍♀️ EkcOlympics - a global activity for fun!
• 📚 Learning & development - Unlimited access to Pluralsight learning platform

• 🌱 A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also internationally)

Why Ekco

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year
• 🚀 VMware & Veeam top partner status
• 🏅 Ranked as 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• 🌈Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging
• 🎉 We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression
• ✨ Flexible working with a family friendly focus are at the core of our company values