Project Manager - Technology Consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career within Technology consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients solve their complex problems and seize essential advantages by defining and evaluating technology strategies and operational effectiveness within the organizations.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy through to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Assist in the management and delivery of large projects
• Lead teams of experienced Senior Associates and Associates to solve client problems.
• Communicate with team members and clients and work well in inclusive teams to deliver value for our clients.
• Business development through relationship building in the market, opportunities identification and providing sound advice through engagement management.
• Support team members in completing the assigned engagement or project by coordinating the implementation of the agreed-upon deliverables.
• Review your work and that of your team for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Ability to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Team development and growth: regularly offers knowledge and skills to team members and clients.

Preferred skills

• Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in project management roles including the use of traditional and agile methodologies to deliver Technology solutions.
• Technology solution delivery for projects/programs through the complete software or system development life cycle (analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation and warranty); and
• Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in delivering technology projects including the following areas:
• Managing small-to-medium software development or infrastructure projects and working in large program environments;
• Collaboratively working with all team and vendor project resources on small-to-large projects;
• Managing all SOW deliverables and reporting project costs and forecasts on a regularly scheduled basis to project leadership and making recommendations to improve project effectiveness;
• Managing internal and external project resources considering quality/acceptance of SOW deliverables internally and externally;
• Creating and maintaining integrated project plans based on information from the vendor and PwC task information. Incorporates updates and changes to the integrated project plan and prepares reports and presentations for executive levels;

Minimum years experience required

• Undergraduate degree and/or MBA in any field
• 6+ years’ work experience in technology consulting/project management
• Certification(s) preferred: Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE 2 Agile or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)