Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Uxbridge, Sheffield, Manchester – 2 days a week in office.

About Us

Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

The Project Manager resides within the Service Design & Delivery area of the EMEA Services Delivery function and specifically within the Project Management Office. Responsible for successfully delivering small to medium size projects and providing leadership to project teams. Manages scope, schedule, risks, issues, finances, resources, and governance reporting.

Working extremely closely with the VP of Sales Operations and Enablement to drive go to market transformation change at pace across a number of areas and throughout the EMEA region where Insight has presence.

The VP of Sales Operations and Enablement, has teammates report from a across a number of functions:

• Sales Operations
• Client Operations
• Data Analytics and compensation
• With close (not direct reporting line) into HR, finance, enablement

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of projects including scope, schedule, cost, risk management, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Delivery through entire project lifecycle using Insight methodologies.
• Measure performance and maintain documentation.
• Communicate regularly with clients and stakeholders.
• Execute contract change control.
• Deliver projects to budget and revenue targets.
• Manage resources and mentor team members.
• Suggest continuous improvements.
• Support tactical sales and presales efforts.
• Undertake additional responsibilities as requested.
• The organisation is pivoting its Sales Go to Market from our extremely successful heritage business of being a VAR to being a Solutions led organisation.
• To enact that change a project manager is required to work closely is prioritizing change projects and leading them direct or via matrix whilst working closely with other program/project managers.
• Projects in questions could span all functions above e.g.
• Running team reorganisations across many different countries
• Owning a project to put in play cadence around understanding Cost of Sales and yearly budgeting cycle for all costs (c250 people and third party spend e.g. enabling tools)
• Working with offshore team mates on data projects to provide better meaningful data to make better business decisions (headcount investment, tool investment etc)

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential:

• Degree level education or equivalent experience.
• Prince Qualified
• Previous experiences of Services and also working within a VAR (ideal not mandatory)
• Work from an Insight office a minimum of two days per week
• High level of written and spoken English.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Project tools.
• Project management experience and knowledge.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle complexity and non-routine issues.

Desirable:

• Business/IT qualifications (e.g., ITIL, CISSP).
• Project Management certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, PMI).
• Experience in globally diverse environments.
• Previous experience with IT Resellers
• Self starter
• Comfortable working in an matrix environment
• Basic understanding and ideally use of key tools such as Salesforce (preferred), SAP
• Excellent communication skills in translating project plans into presentations that will be presented to numerous Executives across the organisation
• Understanding of sales processes and ability to advance opportunities.

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Application Details:

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.