Junior Project Manager
Job Title: Junior Project Manager
Time Type: Full-time [37.5 hours]
Location: London [Hybrid Working]
Work Hours: Monday – Friday [9:00am – 5:30pm]
Reports to: Senior Project Manager
About Harbor Solutions
Harbor Solutions are a fast-growing data protection managed services provider. We specialise in protecting and recovering our customer’s data regardless of location, amount, or type of data. We pride ourselves on delivering only the highest quality services, reducing complexity, and enabling our customers to focus on driving innovation within their organisations.
About the Job
Working closely with our Project Management Team, we are looking for a talented and initiative taking individual to join us as a Junior Project Manager in a new, varied and exciting role at Harbor Solutions.
Project coordination involves assisting in the day-to-day operations of a project, making sure the resources are aware of deadlines and tasks that they are responsible for and completing relevant administrative tasks associated with the project.
As well as co-ordinating projects, there will be elements of taking on smaller projects and undertaking them from start to finish of the project cycle. This will be done initially under close support of the Project Manager, eventually becoming more autonomous.
Lastly, we’re looking for someone who is willing and motivated to learn about how Backup Solutions work at a high level and how this service is implemented and can vary within a project cycle.
Responsibilities
- Joining the PPMO, reporting to the Senior Project Manager and contributing to the repeatable success of Harbor’s projects, programmes, and professional services engagements (P.S.)
- Administering back-end tooling, producing reports, ensuring the capture of quality real-time information for our customers, partners and internal stakeholders.
- Joining and contributing to customer conference calls providing support in opening, updating progress, and closing projects.
- Following a period of in-house training, the junior project manager will develop the skills to undertake project management responsibility for smaller projects and P.S. Engagements
- Adhering to the project governance controls, to ensure a repeatable, successful outcome of our projects and professional services engagements
- Contribute to a cycle of continual improvement to ensure that the PPMO maintains, and assures the standards of project management processes, tools, quality, reporting and documentation across Harbor’s implementation projects and professional services engagements.
- Providing project methodology knowledge-based support for our technical implementation specialists (TIS), assigned to and leading an implementation project/P.S. engagement. This also extends to our sales team in support of service opportunities.
- Monitoring project forecast targets progress versus actual performance and identify any anomalies for further action
- Coordinating resources to ensure project activities remain on schedule
- Reporting on project/P.S. engagement to customers, partners and internal departments
- Project / P.S. engagement initiation, setting up the tooling and repositories required to deliver, monitor and manage projects
Skills and Experience
- Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills
- Experience working in a Project Admin/Coordinator role (1 year+)
- Experience in an IT background (1 year+)
- Confident in communicating with different internal teams including Sales & BAU teams
- Demonstrates a rational and organised approach to work
- Able to plan, schedule and monitor your own work to meet deadlines
- Competent using Microsoft Teams, Outlook and SharePoint
- Experience working with Salesforce & Asana (preferred)
- Identifies and negotiates own development opportunities.
Benefits Overview
- 25 Days holiday plus 1 extra for your birthday
- Early Friday finishes in July
- Enhanced maternity and paternity policies
- Flexible working options
- Holiday carry over options
- Investment into training and development of individuals
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Employment Type
Full-time
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