Junior IT Project Manager

Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Junior IT Project Manager to join a market-leading provider of IT Project Management Services on a permanent, full-time basis. The role involves working at client sites across the Warrington and Manchester regions three days per week, with the remaining two days worked from home.

The Junior IT Project Manager role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including a profit share bonus, employee assistance programme, company pension scheme, and life assurance.

The Role of Junior IT Project Manager
As a Junior IT Project Manager, you will work directly with clients while supporting the planning and delivery of IT projects from conception to completion. With guidance from experienced colleagues, you will help coordinate schedules, monitor risks, communicate progress and build positive stakeholder relationships. You will contribute to keeping projects on time, within budget and aligned with agreed quality standards.

To be successful in this role, you will have a solid understanding of IT project management methodologies and some practical experience of supporting or coordinating projects. You will be organised, proactive and confident communicating with clients, team members and senior colleagues. This is an opportunity to build your project management capability while gaining experience across a variety of stakeholders and IT projects.

Key Responsibilities

Support client-side project management activities and contribute to successful project delivery
Assist with defining, scoping and planning multi-disciplinary projects
Support stakeholder communication, maintain project updates and help build effective working relationships
Contribute to the preparation of business cases and supporting project documentation
Support business change activities, including communications, coordination and progress tracking
Assist with solution selection and coordinate implementation activities under the guidance of experienced project colleagues
Help maintain benefits plans and track progress against agreed project outcomes
About you
You will have some practical experience of supporting or coordinating technical IT projects. This may have been gained in a Junior Project Manager, Project Coordinator, PMO, or similar project delivery role. You will need a UK driving licence, access to a vehicle and the existing right to work in the UK, as our client is not able to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

You will ideally have some experience of:

working in, or developing an understanding of, Agile and Waterfall delivery environments
supporting technology and infrastructure projects, such as mobile network or connected-device deployments, telemetry or monitoring systems, and large-scale hardware rollouts
communicating with clients and stakeholders and supporting effective working relationships
supporting benefits tracking and monitoring whether projects are achieving their agreed outcomes
supporting project budget tracking, including expenditure relating to hardware, software, capital and operational costs