Practice Lead - IT Projects

Practice Lead - IT Projects

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Life on the team:
We’re looking for a Practice Lead to take ownership of project delivery excellence and lead a team of Project Managers delivering Networking, Security, Data Centre, Cloud, and Applications projects. You will be responsible for ensuring we continue to deliver outstanding results to our client base.

• Lead and line manage a team of Project Managers, ensuring successful delivery of customer engagements.
• Take full commercial and contractual responsibility for project outcomes.
• Drive assurance, governance, and customer satisfaction across all engagements.
• Foster a high-performance culture through talent development, succession planning, and effective performance management.
• Manage team operations and financial performance to meet targets and improve productivity.
• Continuously evolve and innovate the Practice’s capabilities to align with business strategy.
• Support business growth by developing competitive, standardised, and market-relevant propositions.
• Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise across internal and external stakeholders.
• Deliver programmes within contracted service accounts, ensuring quality and consistency.

• Recent experience leading the delivery of large-scale projects and programmes, ideally within a professional services organisation.
• Proven ability to deliver business growth.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience managing project and practice financials and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop individuals and teams.
• A passion for continuous improvement and innovation in service delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with sales, service delivery, and service development teams.
• Experience with Networking & Security, Data centre and/or Cloud & Applications technologies would be an advantage.

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Project Management