The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us in Italy (Milan or Rome). In this role, you will manage services projects in Italy from initiation through to delivery and closure. You'll coordinate and conduct customer workshops, support staffing requirements, resources, and risk management. While effectively managing a project, you will also be responsible for helping install an organizational project management discipline and serve as an ambassador for the adoption of project management fundamentals, principles, and methodologies with Red Hat’s services.

What you will do

• Guide project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities for Red Hat’s services projects with minimal direction
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring - Participate in status review meetings with project team members and customers
• Handle project requirements, scope, and change management issues; ensure adherence to legally binding requirements
• Staff projects with the relevant consultants and architects, taking into consideration the required skills and levels of experience in collaboration with the Service Delivery Manager
• Create high performing teams made up of Red Hat, customer, and partner colleagues, where teams continuously assess and improve their approach to technology change
• Train, coach, or mentor individuals and groups, providing context specific advice to assess and grow agile and DevOps maturity
• Discover and take on new approaches to technology delivery with Red Hat customers, utilising agile and open ways of working

What you will bring

• Highly motivated with solid experience in an agile project management role managing IT-based projects
• Record of successfully managing complex projects and multicultural or multidisciplinary teams
• Proven ability to use methods which support agile teams; qualifications in a methodology or methodologies which complement an agile delivery style
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at different organisational levels
• Ability to work effectively across a diverse management team and a broad spectrum of internal partners on your own
• Good balance of business and technical experience
• Ability to communicate the project management value proposition and contribute in consulting pre-sales engagements
• Good communication and presentation skills in English
• PMI and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications are a plus
• Willingness to travel non frequently

The following demonstrated competencies will be a plus :

• Transformation Projects: Experience in managing and executing organisational transformation initiatives to enhance business processes and efficiency.
• Virtualization: Knowledge of virtualization technologies and experience in overseeing projects that optimize resources through virtual environments.
• AI Adoption: Experience in integrating AI technologies into business processes, working with teams to implement AI solutions that align with business objectives.

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