Working alongside talented, passionate people you will empower teams to work collaboratively and innovatively; enabling them to deliver really great software and business value for our clients. It’s about big brains, not big egos
When some people think of leaders they see them working in corner offices at the top of the building. That’s not how it works here. Yes, you’ll be one of our more experienced people and with that will come significant responsibility for how we manage and deliver business-critical software solutions. But we don’t do heavy management or big company politics. We are collaborators, which means you’ll sit around the same table as developers, architects, testers and analysts, coming up with creative ways to translate concepts and ideas into practical and tactical solutions, foster innovation and maximize customer ROI. You won’t be handed a one size fits all, traditional big consultancy methodology and be asked to enforce it. You will be asked to leverage cutting edge Agile and Lean practices to lead self-organizing teams to deliver software that does exactly what is needed.
As a ThoughtWorks' Project Manager, you:
•Take the needs and challenges of a client and partner with them to formulate the delivery road map and project plans to support business strategies and goals.
•Execute the ThoughtWorks account strategy and orchestrate the creation and sale of successful value propositions at the company and individual level.
•Navigate teams through all phases of project delivery to ensure successful delivery of exceptional technical solutions
•Manage delivery scope and risks throughout the lifecycle of the project
•Ensure the experience of engaging ThoughtWorks for delivery exceeds client expectations
•Are an inspiration for innovation to the client.
•Become a trusted and valued partner of the client executives: CIO, CTO, PMO and gain the confidence of the client’s business stakeholders.
•Maintain, and deepen where possible, existing client relationships to yield continuing opportunities for ThoughtWorks.
•Capture innovations, lessons learned and successes on projects and share them with the wider organization.
•Build positive team dynamics and relationships with client staff; remedying dysfunction to maintain healthy and productive ThoughtWorks communities at the Client.
•Create and support sales activities.
We take our hiring very seriously ...so to be considered you'll have experience of the following:
•Project and/or program management experience delivering successful, large-scale software development projects, most of which will have been working on bespoke built enterprise OO applications (ideally Java and C#)
•Experience running IT projects with multiple stakeholder involvement and comfortable working directly with business executives: CIO, CTO, PMO in an advisory role
•Solid understanding of the practical application of agile development methods and leading software development teams in an Agile/Lean environment
•Exposure to a variety of Project Management methodologies
•Account development experience; creating, maintaining and/or enhancing customer relationships that have yielded business opportunity
•Experience in managing IT organisational change within large enterprises
•Broader project management experience, perhaps in infrastructure, integration or package implementation
•Experience working with multi-disciplinary project teams across the whole SDLC
•As a consultant, travel is a part of the role and you must be flexible to working on client sites across Europe
The Small Print ...
We like to do things differently here, so we're seeking a creative approach to problem-solving and a track record of exceptional technical innovation. If you are interested in an opportunity that offers variety and new challenges every day, whilst helping ThoughtWorks to continue delighting our customers, then we should talk.
