IT Project Manager

Project overview

For our client, we are looking for a Project Manager for the assignment below:

Our client is conducting a sourcing project within IT infrastructure that is now in its final phase. We are therefore looking for a senior project manager with deep knowledge of IT infrastructure and experience in sourcing, contract, and vendor management.

The project manager needs to quickly familiarize themselves with the project's current status, take responsibility for remaining activities, and drive the project to completion and handover.

During the contract period, other project management assignments may also become relevant, especially those related to adjacent IT projects.

Main tasks

Experience and competence

Personal qualities

Start date: As soon as possible

End date: 2027-06-30

Scope: The assignment is planned for 100% of a full-time position.

• Plan, lead, and complete remaining activities within the sourcing project.
• Quickly familiarize yourself with the project's current status, remaining deliverables, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate work streams and dependencies between affected internal and external parties.
• Actively drive and follow up on contract issues, supplier commitments, deviations, and remaining deliverables, and escalate issues as needed to ensure progress.
• Manage and follow up on contract issues, supplier commitments, and remaining deliverables.
• Identify and clarify which issues block delivery approval and which can be handled as remaining points after approval.
• Follow the architectural principles and solutions established by the client.
• Ensure that the project's deliverables meet the business's needs before operation and handover.
• Follow up on schedules, finances, risks, and deliverables.
• Prepare documentation and report status to the project owner and steering group.
• Potentially participate in other projects and management activities as needed.
• Several years of experience working as a project manager in large and/or complex IT infrastructure projects with multiple stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Documented experience in sourcing within IT infrastructure, including contract and vendor management.
• Good technical understanding of IT infrastructure, operational services, and associated technical and organizational dependencies, at a level that enables leading, challenging, and prioritizing the work.
• Documented experience with acceptance testing, requirements verification, error and deviation management, and delivery approval in large IT and/or sourcing projects.
• Good commercial understanding and experience in managing contract deviations, changes, and escalations in supplier relationships.
• Experience in driving complex projects to completion, including managing outstanding issues, deliverables, and handover.
• Experience in coordinating internal resources, consultants, and external suppliers.
• Experience working according to established processes and methods for project management within a large organization.
• Good documentation skills and very good knowledge of the Swedish language, spoken and written.
• Independent and proactive – quickly able to familiarize yourself with an ongoing project, identify what needs to be done, and translate it into concrete activities.
• Ability to work in a structured manner and follow the client's project management principles.
• Good collaboration and communication skills.
• Attentive, clear, and solution-oriented – able to manage the needs of different stakeholders, conduct difficult supplier dialogues, and resolve issues that arise during the project's final phase.
• Responsible – take ownership of the task, drive the work forward, and ensure that deliverables meet the right quality and are delivered on time.

Project details

The assignment is conducted on-site in Gothenburg, but some remote work will be allowed to the extent it works for the assignment and in consultation with the consultant. The requirement is at least 80% on-site in Gothenburg, but it can also be 100% during periods if the assignment requires it.

Option for extension: 6 months

Please apply directly through our system with:

Note that the application must be linked to a company account in Verama for the bid to be accepted.

NOTE! Please ensure that the bid is complete with all requested attachments when submitting the bid. No attachments will be received afterwards via email. If you need to make a correction, you must submit a new bid in Verama before the application deadline has expired.

Bid evaluation: (Ework makes the selection)

Ework will make an initial selection and present bids to the client for final evaluation.

Interview:

The consultant/supplier may be called for an interview if necessary to establish qualification requirements.

Questions:

If you have questions regarding the assignment, please contact the assignment manager. We appreciate if any questions are communicated via email as they often need to be escalated for coordination with the client.

Contract terms:

The terms for the assignment will be based on Ework's framework agreement with the client. Refer to the terms in the attachment "Police Authority's Supplier Agreement", see "Documents/Links".

Last application date:

All applications will receive feedback after the advertisement closes.

• Your updated CV and skills matrix. Note that these must be in Swedish.
• Hourly rate (incl. overhead costs)
• Information about when you are available to start the assignment
• In the motivation, describe why you are suitable for this assignment – refer to previous consultant assignments, employments, education, and personal qualities.
• Start: 2026-12-01
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Gothenburg, Sweden, SE
• Languages: Swedish