IT Services Project Manager

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We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our IT Services team as a Project Manager. This is a collaborative role working with key business areas and other IT Teams & suppliers to implement a variety of IT Infrastructure projects.

The Details...
Reporting to the Senior Director of IT Services, the successful candidate will be working with IT Teams and key business areas and will be responsible for scoping, implementation and delivery of a variety of IT Infrastructure projects. This role will involve managing the full project life-cycle. Communication and flexibility are key, along with a hands-on project management philosophy. Candidates will also be responsible for managing key internal stakeholders as well as managing the support partner relationship along the way.

Other responsibilities include:

• Developing and delivering to an agreed project plan and hitting deadlines
• Operating within agreed project and change frameworks
• Engaging with, developing and managing relationships between all relevant parties,
• departments and stakeholders across the business
• Liaising between departments on developing long terms strategies and improvements

What We’re Looking For...
The successful candidate will have a good background in project management and have proven experience delivering IT Infrastructure projects. They will also possess
outstanding relationships building, commercial and written communication skills. As well as technical expertise, we’re looking for someone who has a track record in managing complex technical projects with the flexibility to work in an environment of frequent change in procedure and work practices.
Additional skills, experience and knowledge in the following areas are also desirable:

• experienced in leading direct and sub-contract project teams
• strives for continuous improvement
• excellent communication
• self-motivated, diligent, and well organised
• ability to build and maintain productive working relationships

As well as technical skills, you’re a motivated self-starter with a positive can-do attitude. You value teamwork and have strong communication skills with the ability to interact and engage with staff at all levels within the organisation.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd is a private company headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices in Cambridge (UK), New York, Cambridge, San Francisco (US), Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, and a broader commercial presence that includes Japan, Germany, France and India. The company sells to nearly 100 countries and is in a period of rapid growth.
Oxford Nanopore employs about 500 employees from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent