About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.
IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

• On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.

• All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.

• Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.

• Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

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.

Day-to-day at Ekco:

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

• 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 etc
• 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

Benefits / Perks

• ☀️ Time Off: 25 days annual leave + public holidays
• 🎂 Birthday Leave: One extra day off to celebrate
• 💰 Company Pension Scheme
• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
• 🏃‍♀️ EkcOlympics: Global team activity challenges
• 📚 Unlimited access to Pluralsight for continuous development
• 🌱 Real opportunities to grow, including international progression

Why Ekco

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year
• 🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations
• 🏅 Ranked 4th fastest-growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• 🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging
• 🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression
• ✨ Flexible, family-friendly working at the heart of our culture
• 🔐 Proud to be your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk.