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 350 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux & Ireland.

About the role

Title: Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities and Duties

To be considered for this role the successful candidate must have worked as a Technical Project Manager in an Information Technology (IT) environment for a minimum of 5-7 years and have an industry recognised certification in Project Management e.g. Prince2 Practitioner qualification.

The ideal candidate will come from a technical background. As the Technical Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering complex security and cloud projects for Ekco customers, ensuring projects are delivered to time, budget and quality with effective handover to Ekco Service Operations Teams.

The ideal candidate will combine their technical expertise with project governance, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to security best practices and compliance standards. You will act as the primary liaison between technical teams, stakeholders, and customers.

You should expect to typically manage multiple projects concurrently; this could be bespoke projects or urgent improvements and upgrades. The ability to react well to pressure in a fast-paced environment is going to be essential.

With large scope for accelerated growth, this is the perfect opportunity for a motivated individual looking to proactively progress their career!

Day to Day Activities of the role:

• Providing comprehensive project plans, from both technical and Ekco resources, detailing scope, roles, responsibilities, risk assessment, budgets, and timescales

• Analysing, refining and liaising on business requirements, translating these into project requirements

• Analysing business operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and identifying opportunities to automate processes and functions

• Managing and liaising with 3rd Parties as required in the delivery of projects where required

• Providing effective communications to the stakeholders and points of contact, and 3rd Parties (where applicable) to ensure awareness of project status, activities, changes, issues and progress.

• Producing detailed, clear, consistent, and timely documentation (Contracts, SOW, etc) whether for internal use or wider stakeholders

• Ensuring effective and timely identification, capture and management of project Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies.

• Ensuring effective and timely management of project change with capture of change (scope / schedule / budget), definition of impact, management of acceptance and subsequent project plan and resource update.

• Ensuring that key milestones are completed on time and in accordance with defined requirements and agreed budgets  

• Monitoring, tracking, forecasting and reporting projects status to the PMO and senior business stakeholders.

• Provide structured project management, communications guidance and assistance to project team members.

• Ensure project team members provide quality work results and conform to standards.

• Ensure compliance with PMO governance, financial tracking, project forecasting, cost control, throughout the project lifecycle

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Must have worked as a Technical Project Manager in an Information Technology (IT) environment for a minimum of 5-7 years.

• Must have an industry recognised certification in Project Management e.g. Prince2 Practitioner qualification.

• Must have full driving licence and be willing to travel to Ekco and client locations as required to complete project requirements

• Experience working in fast-paced environments

• Ability to approach, own and solve problems independently as well as part of a team

• Comfortable switching and adapting to changing priorities

• Demonstrate successful delivery of multiple technical projects.

• Good written and verbal communication skills to assist translation of complex technical subjects for sometimes non-technical audiences.

• Typically, this level resource should have five years of experience or more working within the IT Services Industry.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office business applications, including MS Project.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement

Technical Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of our Microsoft cloud platforms e.g. Azure, EM+S, 0365

• Strong understanding of technical solutions e.g. MS Defender, Windows Server, VMWare & Veeam.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the IT industry and managed services.

• Familiarity with security technologies (SIEM, firewalls, IAM, endpoint protection).

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• ITIL Service Transition or Service Operations

• Knowledge of technologies such as SharePoint/ Active Directory/ Messaging/ Virtualisation / Networking

Key Success Metrics:

On-time delivery percentage

·       Budget adherence

·       Customer satisfaction scores

·       Post-project handover quality

 Why Ekco?

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year

• 🚀 VMware & Veeam top partner status

• 🏅 Ranked as 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards

• 🌈Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equality, 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