Project Manager: The role, mission and purpose
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Professional Services team. You will be part of an inclusive, friendly, supportive, and high performing organisation that is challenged to deliver excellence across a diverse range of cloud technologies focussing primarily on VMware by Broadcom.
Reporting to the Programme Manager, and supported by the wider PMO team, an Xtravirt Project Manager is pivotal in owning and driving success for our vendors, partners, customers and Xtravirt. They are critical figures leading a project from onboarding to completion, overseeing its planning, organisation, management, execution, and delivery. They ensure smooth pro-active delivery and ensure the schedule is met to budget, delivering the required quality through building highly-collaborative cross functional teams and acts as a bridge between Xtravirt and the customer.
The Project Manager understands the defined project outcome, employs an objective manner that builds trust and confidence, then applies honesty, integrity, professionalism, and communication skills to achieve or exceed customer goals and expectations in a managed way that enables successful customer outcomes.
Lifecycle customers: As a Project Manager you support Xtravirt’s Strategy and Team plans by championing, identifying, and driving opportunities to support transition, growth and retention of customers to lifecycle relationships, collaborating with other teams to achieve the collective goal.
Customer success: The Project Manager is a key contributor to ongoing success for our customers, and customer satisfaction targets.
By joining our team, you will receive an excellent renumeration package, benefits and a personalised development plan enabling you to meet your individual aspirations.
Required skills
An Xtravirt Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering technology projects that meet business objectives. They act as the bridge between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.
Mastery in each of the following areas contributes to a smoother experience from the perspective of both team members and stakeholders:
Project planning: Initiate the planning process, clearly defining the project’s scope, goals, and objectives. Develop and maintain detailed plans outlining tasks, resources, timelines, and deliverables, creating a solid foundation for project execution. Adaptability and critical thinking to applied plan and management strategies is critical to keep projects moving forward. The ability to identify scope creep and opportunities for additional benefit to the customer is key to this role.
Team Leadership and Coordination: Assemble and direct project teams, assigning tasks based on members’ skills and experience. Focus and unify team efforts by cultivating a positive work environment, promoting collaboration, ownership, resolving conflicts, and leading effective teams through honesty, integrity, professionalism using all the methodologies, tools, and communication methods available.
Risk management: Identify and record potential risks early, analyse their possible impact, develop and manage mitigation strategies. Pro-active approaches to minimise disruptions to the project’s schedule, quality, and budget.
Budget Control: Estimate costs, forecast resources accurately, manage budgets, track spending, and controlled adjustment as necessary to keep the project within financial boundaries.
Communication: Open and transparent communication with colleagues and stakeholders. Project Managers provide updates, report accurately, and use feedback to adapt project scope to meet or exceed client expectations.
Problem-solving ability: Skilled at handling unexpected challenges and making decisions under pressure.
Quality Standards and Management: Applying Xtravirt team processes and procedures, the Project Manager will implement quality control processes to ensure deliverables meet agreed-upon standards and satisfy client requirements maintaining project integrity. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, feeding into the PMO function.
Technical understanding: Familiarity with IT systems, software development, and infrastructure is beneficial.
If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have a strong foundation with at least some of the products and technologies and have the aptitude to learn and develop with our world class team, then we want to hear from you. management tools)
Benefits of working with Xtravirt
- Twenty-five (25) days holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Pension and life assurance
- Wellbeing, financial and legal support
- Long service awards
- Regular evaluation and salary reviews
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Staff recognition awards
- Regular company and social events
Take the next step
Apply online by completing the form below, including an upload of your CV and a covering letter in the message field. Alternatively, for job enquiries please email careers@xtravirt.com.