Contract Senior Project Manager
Provoke Solutions, New Zealand
Job Description
Join our cloud first organisation and build bespoke software using modern technologies and turbo charge your career!
Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a high performing development team, delivering clean, scalable code, on a variety of projects, working with some of the biggest names in NZ and the US? Somewhere you can gain career enriching experience to become someone that might be sought after as a future technical leader. Then have you considered joining Provoke Solutions?
Provoke are a software development consultancy, with a 20-year history of innovation and entrepreneurial growth. We are on a mission to help our clients flourish by building impactful software that delights users. Because our clients deserve better than over budget, over engineered and late projects that don’t meet users’ needs.
Requirements
You’ll join our clever team of Project Managers and technology experts. You’ll add huge value through your passion for delivering software projects to a high standard.
Fronting the relationship with our clients you’ll manage the project and project team. You’ll be effective at successfully managing change, issues and risks throughout the project life cycle. Day to day you’ll:
- Manage the four essentials: delivering on time, on budget, to scope and of high quality that meets customer needs (clichéd but vital)
- Be a trusted partner to our clients
- Promote a strong customer experience culture
- Demonstrate strong leadership and motivation skills, helping galvanize the team to effectively deliver on project milestones
- Forecast monthly revenue, monthly financial reporting and generating timely accurate client invoicing
- Build and maintain strong relationships ensuring customer expectations are managed
- Work with your Sales colleagues, helping to support the sales process, whilst delivering effective commercial documentation
- Work with your wider Engagement and Sales Team to drive successful portfolio outcomes, thinking holistically as to how we can support our customer’s strategic business objectives
You’re just what we’re after if you have:
- Senior Technical PM experience, specifically delivering on software development projects
- Well-rounded knowledge of core project management competencies such as project planning, risk and issue management, financial management, scope and change management, stakeholder management.
- Experience working in a vendor environment managing complex stakeholder relationships and writing SoW and RFPs
- A technical background (ideally your career in a Dev or Infra role)
- A Cloud first mentality with a passion for new technology
- An understanding of DevOps fundamentals
Benefits
This is a 6 month contract working across a range of clients and projects, you'll also be writing SoW's. Projects may include Intranet revamp, BoT proof of concept, Sharepoint migration and PowerPlatforms