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Depending on the size and structure of the engagement, the Senior Project Manager may serve as the primary customer contact or work under the direction of a Program Manager who owns the broader customer relationship. The Senior Project Manager owns project-level planning, fulfillment oversight, production and shipping readiness, budget and schedule management, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and confirmation of successful delivery. Working across customers, Sales, engineering, production and integration, logistics, Resource Management, and other delivery functions, the Senior Project Manager establishes project direction, drives accountability, and ensures customer commitments are understood and actively managed. This is a highly customer-facing role requiring strong knowledge of IT infrastructure and data center deployment environments, disciplined project management, proactive communication, and the ability to manage multiple complex customer deployments with competing priorities and dependencies. The role has no direct reports but leads cross-functional project teams through influence, sound judgment, and disciplined execution.\nAnnual Salary Range: $110,000 - $160,000\nWhat you'll be doing\nLead assigned customer projects from initiation through delivery and closure, maintaining alignment on scope, schedule, budget, priorities, responsibilities, deliverables, and outcomes.\nServe as the primary customer contact or, when a Program Manager owns the broader relationship, lead project-level communication and delivery in alignment with that role.\nEstablish and maintain project plans, trackers, milestones, risks, issues, actions, dependencies, contacts, and other required project controls.\nBuild customer trust through professionalism, responsiveness, transparency, and consistent follow-through.\nLead cross-functional teams through influence, setting priorities and driving accountability without direct reporting authority.\nCoordinate internal, external, and third-party resources required to successfully deliver assigned projects.\nMonitor open orders received from Sales Support and manage customer fulfillment requests, schedule requirements, priorities, and delivery commitments.\nMaintain integrated plans covering technical approvals, production services, shipping, delivery, resources, dependencies, and customer readiness.\nConfirm international compliance readiness with Sales before applicable orders advance.\nEnsure order documentation, technical approvals, production requirements, logistics details, and site-readiness requirements are complete and aligned to required dates.\nSchedule and oversee production services, build requests, and supporting documentation in alignment with project requirements and customer commitments.\nPartner with production and Integration Center teams to monitor progress and resolve schedule, capacity, quality, and readiness issues.\nOversee product and delivery-related issues, including shipment logistics, late or changed shipment dates, DOAs, licensing, and other fulfillment concerns.\nConfirm production and shipping requirements are satisfied before release, escalating material risks with clear impacts and recommended actions.\nProvide customers and Professional Services teams with required logistics, deliverable, shipment, and tracking information.\nMonitor shipments through delivery and confirm receipt at the customer site before considering applicable delivery activities complete.\nMonitor project performance against scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and customer commitments.\nMaintain accurate project, order, production, shipment, risk, issue, action, and decision information within designated systems.\nIdentify, assess, and actively manage project risks and issues, driving mitigation and timely resolution.\nProvide customers, account teams, Program Managers, and delivery leadership with clear status, milestone, risk, issue, and action reporting.\nAssess changes in scope or priority and communicate impacts to timing, cost, resources, dependencies, and customer expectations.\nValidate completion of project requirements and obtain customer acceptance/signoff as required.\nComplete required project documentation, financial activities, invoicing support, and project closure activities.\nLead project health checks and recovery efforts for projects that are not meeting delivery expectations.\nParticipate in lessons-learned and after-action reviews and drive practical improvements to delivery processes, controls, reporting, and cross-functional ways of working.\nCore Project Management Experience\nCandidates should bring strong experience across complex technology and data center project delivery, including:\nEnterprise IT infrastructure and/or data center deployment environments\nEnd-to-end project lifecycle management\nCustomer-facing project leadership\nScope, schedule, budget, and resource management\nFulfillment and order management\nProduction and Integration Center coordination\nShipping, logistics, and delivery oversight\nProject planning, trackers, milestones, and dependencies\nRisk, issue, action, and change management\nCross-functional and third-party resource coordination\nCustomer readiness and delivery commitments\nExecutive and customer status reporting\nProject financial management and invoicing support\nProject recovery and escalation management\nCustomer acceptance and project closure\nLessons learned and continuous improvement\nWhat you have\nBachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.\n7+ years of project management experience, preferably within data centers, IT infrastructure, technology deployment, integration, or professional services.\nDemonstrated success managing complex and concurrent customer projects from initiation through delivery and closure.\nStrong understanding of IT infrastructure and data center deployment environments.\nExperience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and customer commitments.\nExperience coordinating fulfillment, production/integration activities, logistics, shipping, and customer delivery requirements.\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical and operational teams through influence without direct reporting authority.\nStrong customer-facing experience with the professionalism and credibility to manage expectations and navigate challenging delivery situations.\nStrong project planning, financial management, fulfillment oversight, risk management, and problem-solving capabilities.\nAbility to identify risks early, assess business and customer impacts, and drive timely mitigation and resolution.\nExcellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.\nAbility to manage multiple projects, orders, delivery timelines, priorities, and dependencies simultaneously.\nProficiency with enterprise project management, order, configuration, and deployment-management systems and tools.\nAbility to establish practical, repeatable project controls and drive consistent adoption across teams.\nAbility to work regularly onsite at the assigned Integration Center and travel intermittently based on customer and business needs.\nMust be legally eligible to work in the United States.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPMP or comparable project management certification\nExperience managing data center or enterprise infrastructure deployment projects\nExperience supporting production, Integration Center, fulfillment, logistics, or technology deployment environments\nExperience with Microsoft Project, Excel, Salesforce, or comparable enterprise project-management and reporting tools\nExperience leading project recovery, health-check, or continuous-improvement efforts\nExperience coordinating multiple internal, customer, vendor, and third-party stakeholders\nWhat you can expect\nThere’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding 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In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.\nAbout us\nComputacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. 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