Lead Project Manager in Birmingham

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Location: Birmingham CV2 (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: Competitive salary plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid‑for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday

Interview Process: 1 stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life‑long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately‑owned IT Company

Role purpose:

The Lead Project Manager is responsible and accountable for the successful completion of professional services projects for SCC’s end customers and will ensure that all Projects are delivered with a mix of time and materials and fixed price contracts toward high profile public sector and private sector clients.

Key responsibilities:

• Understand the relationship between the resource plan, the cost plan and the margin.
• Ensure risks are being actively managed in the risk register.
• Update the project plan upon reflection of risks and issues.
• Efficiently elevate project issues to enable effective mitigation plans.
• Challenge risk mitigation plans.
• Mentor Associates & Project Managers in support of their learning & development objectives.
• Ensure correct start‑up and management of the project, via the Acceptance into Projects process, implementing the SCC model and agreed procedures set out within the PMO governance model utilising SCC’s chosen project management system and document repository tools.
• Lead Project Managers will be responsible for running projects of larger scale, scope, complexity, risk and financial value. However where business needs require they will also be required to run standard projects.
• Document MSP plans to the appropriate level of detail and quality for different stages of the project.
• Perform critical path analysis on plans & prioritise resource allocation to the tasks within the critical path.
• Identify and manage interdependencies within the project.
• Lead the development and the updates of the project plan.
• Manage others to ensure the completion of deliverables to time, cost and quality according to the project plan.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to define project deliverables, set milestones, and allocate resources effectively.
• Develop a change control plan to help achieve the project’s objectives.
• Accountable for the handover of project deliverables to customer/business as usual teams.
• Recognise and communicate early warning signs of scope creep.
• Report and elevate any changes to the project, ensuring the change control process is followed.
• Assess the impact of the change to the project plan and objectives of the project.
• Assess and prioritise stakeholders’ requirements and manage their expectations.
• Manage financial performance (cost and margin) on a project.
• Understand and present information contained within financial reports and adjust the project accordingly.
• Understand and manage the overall budget and margin for a project based on cost model.
• Will be ultimately responsible for the delivery and the agreed profit margins and cost model.
• Deliver clear and concise stakeholder management internal and customer facing including Project Board creation, liaison with other key SCC service providers and 3rd party organisations.

Skills and experience:

• Broad level of competence IT (Information Technology) or related industry, with a demonstrable ability of delivering complex projects on‑time, to budget and quality.
• Ability to forecast complex project budgets and deliver against forecast with the ability to clearly communicate and elevate where the budget will be breached.
• Demonstrable ability of ensuring projects run to the agreed baseline and knowledge to foresee and enact relevant change processes where necessary.
• Demonstrable ability of running large scale, simultaneous, high‑profile projects successfully.
• Understanding of the Digital Workplace, Networking and Enterprise, what this means and the key customer challenges and technical solutions in this space.
• Project team management to ensure that the candidate always leads by example.
• Strong relationship building, communications and management skills both internally and externally with stakeholders.
• Ability to challenge, negotiate and influence constructively at various levels including senior stakeholders.
• Organised and structured approach to project documentation and project artefacts.
• Security clearance or willingness to apply will be required for this role.
• Must be able to obtain the Government and/or Police Security levels required in order to meet the operational requirements of the role (no caveats) and as per the requirements stipulated in relevant customer contracts.

About Us:

SCC is Europe's largest privately‑owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer. SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non‑membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.