If you love nothing more than pushing new technology into the market, you’ll find yourself in good company as you manage complex & diverse projects across broad market sectors with a market leader.
IT Project Management at Microsoft
Client needs, delivery estimates, time constraints, internal resources and budgets – you’ll consider them all as you scope out complex IT projects, designed to help our customers make the most of their technology. As the authority on all things project management, you’ll have a huge say in the feasibility and direction of the project. And once underway, you’ll monitor the project from start to finish – even recruiting the team you do it justice. Deliver on customer expectations.

We take a huge amount of pride in our work. So risk assessment plays a big role here. You’ll spot any potential problem areas, make plans to avoid them and use your natural rapport with people to keep your client in the loop.

Key Responsibilities:
Establishes a strategy of continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions throughout the project life cycle and create and environment to support it where the project team as visible, measureable, and repeatable processes for managing these risks.

It’s your chance to:

Deliver leading-edge technical projects
Benefit from the safety net of amazing organization-wide risk management
Enjoy plenty of back up so you’re not out there on your own
Develop your skills alongside experts in the field

Business Division Specific:
In Microsoft Services, we help businesses around the world to accelerate the power of Microsoft products and technologies. Working with 60,000 partners worldwide on some of the largest and most complex technological challenges around, we provide technical consulting and support services to 54 million customers. Across Enterprise Services and Customer Support Services , we have a global team of 10,000 professionals in 88 countries, and we draw on the full resources of the Microsoft organization worldwide.

Benefits of working at Microsoft:
Microsoft values different life experiences and viewpoints. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach challenges unconventionally. We will invest in your health and financial future, and encourage you to pursue your interests and passions away from the office. Our products and technologies help you balance life away from the office and enable you to manage your schedule efficiently.
Your Career:
We take your career seriously at Microsoft and will ensure that we provide regular reviews throughout the year to offer continuous feedback and support to inspire you, develop your skills and ensure your personal satisfaction and growth. The Microsoft performance philosophy recognizes higher performance with bigger rewards through a formal annual performance review.

Skills and qualifications:
IT experience, either within project management or delivery
Ideally 9,000+ hours of project management experience on projects with total billed hours of 2,500 Fixed Price or 7,500 Time and Material
Worked with teams of 100+ people (may include partner resources)
Understand the needs and methodologies of IT delivery teams to estimate timescales.