Project Manager

Project Manager

London (hybrid role)

Brady has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join us on a permanent basis!

At Brady Technologies, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, helping market participants navigate new challenges and opportunities with confidence. Our advanced software solutions bring clarity to complex problems and processes, enabling customers to enhance their trading and operations and meet tomorrow’s energy needs. Our product suite serves a diverse client base, including utilities, independent power producers, renewable asset developers, and energy and multi-commodity trading houses. We also provide solutions for oil & gas companies, particularly as they develop their power businesses, state power grid operators, hedge funds and investment management companies.

Our software solutions support critical decision-making and help these regional and global leaders optimise their trading, power operations, and manage complex risks. Our technology facilitates increased automation and efficiency in the face of changing market dynamics including decentralisation, decarbonisation, diversity of generation assets, volatility and evolving regulation. We are proud of the spirit of partnership we have with our customers, many of whom have been with us for a decade or more. Furthermore, we are committed to our values of collaboration, innovation and delivery, to ensure we continue to meet their and the energy market’s needs in the future.

The Project Manager role sits within our professional services function and is responsible for managing concurrent customer projects, ensuring the quality is maintained and customer satisfaction is exceeded by delivering projects on time, on budget and to the agreed scope. This covers both multi-million projects through to smaller custom engagements. The Project Manager will be the primary point of contact for customers during project implementations ensuring we allocate resources in an optimal way and utilise best practice reporting and delivery methodologies with a focus on continuous improvement for running Brady projects.

Key Accountabilities:

• Managing small to medium sized projects reporting directly to the Delivery Practice Lead
• Co-ordinate with pre-sales and project managers, providing key input into planning and estimating of software delivery projects including resourcing requirements
• Ensure that all Project Management Office requirements are addressed e.g. time reporting, utilisation, project billing and ensuring JIRA and Netsuite systems accurately and efficiently capture all project activities
• Establishing and executing a range of Project Management Office tasks to ensure the delivery portfolio is managed effectively including administrative and reporting tasks
• Working together with a the wider Delivery Practice members to capture and document Customer business requirements and translate into deliverables contained in a formal project plan
• Take responsibility for assigned tasks and providing timely progress updates to the project managers
• Provide support at customer sites, as well as Brady offices, deliver projects on time based on the detailed project plan (New implementation, Upgrades, Service requests). Make sure any billable work is documented and hand over to the training team
• Be pro-active in maintaining and building relationships with assigned clients and gain an understanding on how they use the software for their business needs
• Generate additional revenue via identification of training, consultancy services and change requests
• Participate in customer meetings organised either by Support team, Sales, Account Management or Product Owners
• Collaborate successfully with all other Brady functions most notably the support and implementation teams to ensure successful deliveries.
• Based on pre-agreed KPIs, meet or exceed objectives as agreed by your manager
• Strictly follow company procedures and draw to the attention to management of any area that could, in your opinion, be improved.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Consultancy experience managing software projects at a vendor for external customers
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the willingness to face challenging customers and travel as required
• Proven ability to manage challenging projects/operational situations and delivery against tight time and budget constraints.
• Positive and flexible attitude, with ability to remain calm and perform under pressure.
• Independent and efficient with exemplary attention to detail.
• Commercial awareness and consideration of the wider commercial impact of a project
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Interest and keenness to learn relevant markets (Energy/Risk)
• Excellent client communication skills. Both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with software implementation methodologies
• Familiarity of working within an Agile software development environment.
• Experience of using Microsoft Project, ERPsystems (egNetsuite) and Jira

What Brady offers:

• Great compensation + 8% pension + 5% bonus + private health insurance and more!
• 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
• 1/2 day off Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve
• 2 days' study leave per annum
• Flexible working hours
• A positive, values-driven culture

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