Junior Project Manager

Job Title: Junior Project Manager

Time Type: Full-time

Location: London & St Albans

Reports to: 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 Manager, we are looking for a talented and initiative-taking individual to join us as a Project Coordinator 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. A Project Coordinator works very closely with the Project Manager and is aware of the goals of a project.

As well as coordinating 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 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 on customer conference calls providing support in opening, updating on progress, and closing projects.
• Following a period of in-house training, the project coordinator 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.
• Contributing 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 forecasted targets progress versus actual performance and identifying 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.
• Flexible working options.
• Holiday carry-over options.
• Investment into training and development of individuals.

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Employment Type

Full-time