IT Project Manager

Location:  Czech Republic 

Recruiter: Tyrone Duncan 

Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers.

We empower car dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation. How? By creating innovative technology that makes selling cars better for our customers, and buying and owning cars better for theirs.

We use cutting-edge technology to link our clients’ systems, departments and sites. We provide an open technology platform that’s shaping the industry for the future. We use data to help clients become more efficient, increase profitability and give more customers an amazing experience. Want to be part of it?

Purpose of the role

Responsible for managing medium to large IT projects to budget, schedule, and quality. Working with physical and virtual teams across departments, this role demands timely and effective communications with executive project sponsors, internal functional leaders, technical specialists, and customers (as appropriate) across concurrent projects.  

Working closely with customers, managing their expectations, and ensuring that the right job is completed and done well. Whilst this role is primarily focused on internal change where the main aim is to lead the project team and colleagues in Keyloop to be successful, this will also support our customers to be successful.

The Project Manager is highly organised, articulate, detail-orientated and commercially aware, and able to lead and delegate effectively.  You are energetic, committed, and enthusiastic, with the ability to prioritise and take ownership to get the job done well and on time. You support, empower, motivate, and inspire others.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Defining the scope, impact, resources, and outcomes of the project, and gaining sponsor and internal customer agreement to these
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of project plans to ensure status is up to date.
• Overall project setup, building out a project plan and successful execution of plans.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, and actions, driving to timely closure
• Provide progress reports and metrics dashboard for executive level transparency.
• Manage all stakeholder communication across all areas of the business, whether with board level stakeholders or technical teams.
• Manage change control process to ensure project plan is aligned with portfolio expectations.
• Using appropriate standards, systems, resources, tools, and techniques in all project management activities.
• Maintaining and controlling project documentation and systems during, and on completion of the project.
• Closing projects when outcomes achieved, and to review lessons learned.

Skills/Knowledge and experience

Proven experience of running project from the following areas:

Cybersecurity

• AWS
• Managed detection and response (MDR)
• EDP

Infrastructure

• Network replacement
• Data centre migration
• Cloud migrations
• End user compute refresh
• Operating system upgrades

Software

• Application build and delivery
• Software selection
• Software upgrades

Additional

• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation skills to convey messages to stakeholders of all levels
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising teams
• Experience in IT project / programme management in a large enterprise in a fast moving and dynamic project environment, ideally for a SaaS organisation
• Experience of running complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of project planning and management processes, tools and techniques and experience of formulating project plans with different technology teams
• Experience of commercial decision making and commercial awareness
• Experience of working with M365 suite

Technical / Professional qualification

PRINCE 2 Practitioner or PMI PMP Certification

Desirable

• Experience with Six Sigma, and/or equivalent certifications
• Some knowledge of the Automotive industry preferred

Why join us?

We’re on a journey to become market leaders in our space – and with that comes some incredible opportunities. Collaborate and learn from industry experts from all over the globe. Work with game-changing products and services. Get the training and support you need to try new things, adapt to quick changes and explore different paths. Join Keyloop and progress your career, your way.

An inclusive environment to thrive

We’re committed to fostering an inclusive work environment. One that respects all dimensions of diversity.  We promote an inclusive culture within our business, and we celebrate different employees and lifestyles – not just on key days, but every day.

Be rewarded for your efforts

We believe people should be paid based on their performance so our pay and benefits reflect this and are designed to attract the very best talent. We encourage everyone in our organisation to explore opportunities which enable them to grow their career through investment in their development but equally by working in a culture which fosters support and unbridled collaboration.