Sr. Project Manager

7 Months ago • All levels • Project Management

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Project Manager role at Rackspace involves leading and overseeing complex Professional Services projects from initiation to delivery for client engagements. The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills to liaise between internal and external stakeholders, including technical and non-technical teams, to ensure project success. Responsibilities include gathering and documenting client requirements, managing project scope, planning, monitoring, and execution, risk management, and preparing project reports. The ideal candidate will have PMP/Prince2 certification, proven experience in managing technical projects (preferably in managed services or hosting), and a technical understanding of data center operations, cloud technologies, and IT service management. Pre-sales engagement, assisting in proposal preparation, and collaboration with sales teams are also key components of this role.
Must have:
  • PMP/Prince2 certification
  • Experience managing technical projects
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Technical knowledge of data center operations & cloud technologies
  • Project planning & execution expertise
Good to have:
  • ITIL certification
  • Experience with virtualization technologies
  • Experience with application/platform migration
  • Knowledge of project management tools (MS Project, Visio)

Job Details

 Job Description:
 
We are seeking a Professional Services Sr. Project Manager to lead, coordinate and monitor ProfessionalServicesprojectsfrominitiationthroughdeliveryforcomplexclient engagements. Builds relationships with the customer to identify new opportunities to help them with their business problems. Servesasliaisonbetweeninternalandexternaltechnicalandnon-technical departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met. Delivers results ensuring technical projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
 
JOBREQUIREMENTS:
Key Accountabilities
General
·  WorkwithRackspaceandclientstakeholdersingatheringanddocumentingrequirementsthat solveacustomer’spainpointorobjectivesthroughprojectoutcomesandbenefitsrealization.
·       Serves as liaison between clients and Rackspace technical and non-technical departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
·       Build and maintain a network of cross-functional technical resources within Rackspace and acrossanyrelativepartnershipstoallowforhigherproductivity,increasedbusiness,andrapid resolution of problems and escalations.
·       ContributetotherefinementoftheRackspaceProfessionalServicesmethodology.
·       Provide FANATICAL support by driving the value of Rackspace to both potential and existing Rackspace customers and internal sales teams alike.
·       Ability to travels required.
 
Project Management
 
·       Responsible for the scope, planning, monitoring and execution of technical projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring they remain on schedule and within budget, cost and quality tolerances.
·       Responsible for the preparation of key project documents(PID,plans,logs,reports)and other key deliverables through the life of the project.
·       Proactively works to identify and manage project risks and issues. Ensures appropriate response plans are developed executed.
·       Effectively manages change to the project baseline by assessing project variance and evaluating impacts supported by the use of rigorous change control processes.
·       Monitors the delivery of project deliverables from third parties inside and external to Rackspace and tracks progress of same through continuous communication with project members.
·       Prepares and presents reports on project progress and problems to Rackspace and client stakeholders.
 
Pre-Sales Engagement
 
·       Assists in the preparation of proposals, RFP/RFI responses, & Statements of Work (SoW). This includes the analysis and development of scope, duration, deliverables, resources, risk, assumptions and dependencies.
·       Regularly collaborates with Sales pursuit teams, Programme & Project Managers, Technical Consultants, Solutions Architects, Partners, and extended cross-functional teams during presales and project delivery to ensure timely delivery and awareness of potential problems or risk requiring resolution or mitigation.
 
PERSONSPECIFICATION:
Expertise/Qualifications
 
·       PMP/Prince2(Practitioner)certification.
·       Provenabilitytoorganiseandexecuteprojectsinaconsistent,repeatableandreliable manner.
·       Technical conversational knowledge in the following areas:
o    Data centre strategy &operations
o    Capacity, utilisation, and performance
o    Backup, storage, and disaster recovery
o    migration & consolidation
o    ITService Management and Service Delivery (ITILcertificationpreferred)
·       Excellenttimemanagement,communications,decisionmaking,presentation,human relations and organization skills.
·       Able to resolve problem sinatimely manner.
·       Ability to communicate technical information and ideas so others will understand.
·       Generalknowledgeofcloudtechnologies,IToperations,projectmanagementoperations.
·       Abilitytoadapttoarapidlychangingenvironment,handlingshiftingprioritiesandambiguity.
·       EnterpriseleveluseofMSOfficesuiteincludingProjectandVisioandknowledgeofother project management tools.
 
Experience
 
·       (essential project management experience or scoping, planning, leading and monitoringtechnicalprojectsfrominitiationthroughdeliverypreferablyinmanagedservices or hosting.
·       (essential) working on infrastructure technology projects including one or more of the following:
o    virtualisation technologies.
o    application/platform migration.
o    data/storage/network migration and / or management.
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