Project Manager L3 - Infrastructure & Data Centre Specialist - Contract

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Project Manager L3 - Infrastructure & Data Centre Specialist to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals; strategy; staffing; scheduling; identification of risks; contingency plans and allocation of available resources; in line with the business strategy.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interfaces with all project stakeholders to take projects from original concept through to final implementation
• Contributes to the pre-sales process by providing proposals
• Ensures that the project delivers the as-sold solution, remains within baseline budget, and is delivered on time while achieving quality criteria and maintaining client satisfaction
• Manages client satisfaction, commitment, and expectations to high service levels and manage escalations adequately
• Capacity required for a large initiative within IT Division related to a move of infrastructure between Data Centres.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to plan, organize, and execute projects from initiation to completion
• Ability to establish strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external clients
• Excellent client-centricity skills and ability to work at client sites
• Ability to manage customer satisfaction, commitment, and expectations to high service levels and manage escalations adequately
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent team-building skills and ability to work in high-pressure environments
• Ability to manage urgent asks simultaneously
• Good business acumen and commercial skills
• Collaborative, passionate, strong initiative, self-driven with a commitment to succeed
• Decisive with good attention to detail ability
• Works on problems of moderate scope, often varied and nonroutine where analysis requires a review of a variety of factors
• Focuses on providing standard professional advice and creating initial analysis for review

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Project Management degree or equivalent with a moderate level of related experience
• Relevant project management certifications preferably PMP
• ITIL certification is preferable

Required Experience:

• 10 years' experience working in a project environment of large project
• 5 years experience in management.
• Experience in Infrastructure and IT Application hosting.
• Planning and managing the integration activities between applications, business, and infrastructure.
• Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement.
• Agile leadership and project/program management experience

Skills Summary

Business Acumen, Cost Management, IT Infrastructure Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Resource Management, Software Systems, Systems Integration, Writing Technical Documents