IT Project Manager (Telephony, Cloud, SAAS)

IT Project Manager (Telephony, Cloud, SAAS)

Employer:

Hays Specialist Recruitment

Location:

Pay:

Contract Type:

Contract

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

25/03/2026

About this job

IT Project Manager (Infrastructure, Telephony, Azure) 3-6 Months Lancashire (1-2 days onsite) £525 a day (Inside IR35) I am currently looking for a hands on IT Project Manager to deliver a small portfolio of projects.

Candidates must be used to working in a fast paced setting, be proficient at putting together concise project plans and have previously been involved in discovery projects and programmes.

Candidates should have extensive third party supplier / vendor management and have a strong understanding of horizon scanning and demand planning / forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Creation of project proposals and / or business cases for the technical projects in conjunction with the IT/Tech Business Stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver a rolling programme / workstack of work for the agreed technical projects: Providing an ongoing forward view of required change.
• Own the production of the detailed project plans, setting guidance to deliver the end to end project, providing project reporting and appropriate documentation.
• Conduct capacity planning and resource modelling to inform sequencing; accurately forecast demand for the different skillsets.
• Contract management of the delivery of services provided by third parties to strict KPIs.
• Provide effective planning, control and monitoring of the project budget including resource utilisation and any fixed or external costs.

Essential Skills

• Previous experience of managing a small Portfolio of multiple IT Projects.
• Experience of working on Telephony, Infrastructure and Application projects.
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud Azure, IaaS, SaaS. Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application upgrades, and cloud releases.
• Considerable experience of managing and contracting cloud based service providers, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non technical terms, to a varying degree for differing stakeholders.
• Previous experience of demand management and forecasting.
• Ability to produce clear and concise project plans, project reports, and documentation.
• Proficient in the use of delivery and collaboration tools such as DevOps, SharePoint, MS Teams, Asana.

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