Job Description

Location: Remote but preferably be based in the UK or EU


Salary and benefits: Salary based on experience plus discretionary bonus, travel and health insurance, Perkbox and more.


Erlang Solutions build transformative solutions for the world's most ambitious companies. Erlang Solutions is a global technology company working with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500, including WhatsApp, Klarna, Pivotal, Cars.com, Ericsson and MasterCard to mention a few.



With headquarters in London and offices in Stockholm, Krakow and Budapest, our distributed team spans across Asia, Europe and the Americas.


Summary of Position


Erlang Solutions has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic Junior Project Manager to join our delivery team. You will need to be methodical and organised, unprepared to accept the status quo and always seek to significantly improve, change or adapt existing methods and techniques.


As the Junior Project Manager, you will provide support to the delivery team who are responsible for delivering change projects, take responsibility for developing and owning key artefacts, manage own deliveries to demanding and often conflicting deadlines. Finally, work alongside a range of stakeholders to drive forward improvements to promote best practice.


The Junior Project Manager will work with cross functional teams to ensure that requirements are aligned to both clients and internal strategy, and development occurs in line with requirements. Getting under the skin of an issue is critical. Our ability to deliver at speed is grounded in a fundamental understanding of the challenges faced by our clients. Being tenacious, and willing to challenge the assumptions of even the most senior of our clients is important.


Responsibilities

Support all aspects (Scope, Budget, Timeline, Risks, Issues, Reporting) of projects and streams of work. Collaborate with stakeholders to establish priorities and allocate tasks, whilst meeting project targets and milestones. Be clear and articulate well in both written and verbal communication. Be comfortable presenting to project stakeholders. Define and improve documentation standards and processes.

Experience required:

Must have a minimum of 1 years' industry experience in a Junior Project Manager / Project Support or Co-ordinator role in a software environment. Ability to work under pressure, manage challenging situations and time critical activities. Multi-tasking skills are essential. Commercially and financially astute with experience of understanding budgets. Well versed in communicating with 'Virtual' teams geographically and across functions. Solid understanding of Agile and waterfall methodologies Desirable Prince2 or Scrum Master certification. Jira, Confluence and other collaboration tools experience is a plus. Experience in remote-first collaboration and project management.


Our company values:


Passion & Fun


We are passionate about the power of Erlang and Elixir, and our passion is contagious. Our employees are approachable, and our events are open to all who want to understand our passion.


Teamwork & Knowledge Sharing


None of us is better than all of us. We know that sharing expertise between permeable teams is the key to us delivering transformative impact.


Sustainability


Our colleagues and community are key to our ongoing success, so we're committed to developing each. What's more, our technologies reduce reliance upon physical infrastructure, reducing ours and our client's impact on the environment.


At Erlang Solutions, we are all responsible for our own, and each other's development. As such, we are encouraged to deploy coaching and feedback skills on a daily basis to facilitate the improvement of all. Experience of these skills is helpful but being open to them is a must.


Erlang Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.