About Ekco
🚀 Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe! We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our customers’ existing technology investments.
☁️ In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!
🌍 We have over 600 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in Ireland, UK, Netherlands & Malaysia.

About the role
The Project Manager will be accountable for leading and driving customer modernisation and cloud transformation projects and will play a key role in helping to continuously improve operational effectiveness, and drive business flexibility, scalability and growth. The successful Project Manager will have a passion for problem solving, driving change, and bringing people with them on the journey. The Project Manager will manage a range of projects from discovery through to delivery to optimise technology capabilities, transform business processes and ultimately deliver value back to customers.

Job Duties / Requirements of Role
As the Project Manager you will play a key role in:
• Refine and adapt Ekco’s hybrid delivery framework
• Offer guidance and mentor other members of the PMO Team
• Lead the delivery of projects through Discovery, Build and Acceptance into Service to agreed outcomes
• Engage with key stakeholders and subject matter experts, both internally and externally, building and maintaining strong relationships
• Work with key members of the business to define change management approach where new systems/capabilities require business process change
• Managing dependencies, risks, plans, costs and resourcing for each project and dependencies across interlinked projects
• Work closely with the Delivery team, Architects, engineers, stakeholders and executives to deliver complex technology solutions that produce business value
• Ability to problem solve and lead teams towards creative solutions to ensure that budget, schedule, scope and quality are all managed for overall project success
• Manage and maintain standard project tools and templates including project schedule, risk and issue logs, project summary, status reports, action tracking and meeting minutes • Communicate project status to all levels of corporate personnel to ensure expectations are clearly maintained

About You
You will have:
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project delivery
• Proven experience in delivering and managing complex projects across multiple technical towers
• A good technical understanding of cloud and infrastructure principles
• Agile methodology PM experience, ideally having progressed from Prince / Waterfall into more agile project management
• Experience managing Cloud delivery projects that leverage technologies from traditional VMware-based infrastructure; public cloud management with Azure; as well as newer PaaS services
• Governance - effective reporting and escalation through a waterfall governance process including risks, issues, dependencies, progress and budgets.
• Confident facilitating the appropriate level of Project meetings such as daily stand-ups, planning meetings, project boards and closures
• Problem solving - ability to identify potential problems and issues proactively and work through them to effective conclusion
• Team working - ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a range of established professionals and specialists - both internally and externally
• Able to identify, document and communicate issues/risks and dependencies
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills. The Desirables
• Understanding of core marketing and / or sales concepts
• Prior application delivery experience
• PMI / ACP certification
• PRINCE2
🌈Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging • 🎉 We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression • ✨ Flexible working with a family friendly focus are at the core of our company values Employee perks • ☀️ Time off - 25 days leave + public holidays • 🎂 x1 day Birthday leave per year • 💰 Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice • 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to dedicated mental health, emotional wellbeing and general advice. • 🩺 Private Medical Healthcare (post probation) • 🦷 Discounted Dental Insurance (via salary sacrifice) • 📚 Learning & development - Unlimited access to online learning platform • 🌱 A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also international