IT Project Manager (Dentons Europe Services)

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Take ownership of diverse mid-size IT projects across Europe, coordinating IT teams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery while managing risks and timelines.

Dentons Europe is looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to take ownership of projects and ensure their successful delivery. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, can manage challenges effectively, and has a proven track record of keeping projects on track. This is not an entry-level or PMO reporting role—it’s for someone who understands the common pitfalls in project management and knows how to prevent them

This is a B2B contract role

Responsibilities

  • End-to-end delivery of mid-size IT projects across multiple European offices.
  • Full responsibility for:
    • Scope control
    • Timelines
    • Risks and dependencies
    • Delivery communication
  • Daily coordination between IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors.
  • Active management of blockers, delays, and conflicting priorities.
  • Escalation of risks early and with facts.
  • Vendor coordination and delivery control.
  • Status reporting focused on reality, not optics.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of real IT project delivery experience.
  • You have personally:
    • Delivered under time pressure.
    • Managed external vendors.
    • Dealt with scope change and conflict.
    • Lived through at least one project that went wrong.
  • Strong practical understanding of project delivery (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
  • English B2+ minimum, able to operate in international delivery calls.
  • High personal ownership, resilience, and follow-through.
  • Comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
  • Strong organizational discipline and execution mindset.

Benefits

  • Full ownership of real Europe-wide IT projects.
  • High visibility within European IT leadership.
  • Clear accountability and decision authority within assigned projects.
  • Stable environment with long-term project pipeline.
  • International environment and direct impact on firm-wide systems.

Dentons is always looking to invest in the highest-quality talent, recognizing that our success is built on the diverse and unique strengths of each of the members of our Firm.With over 10,000 lawyers, the Firm is uniquely positioned to leverage our global platform and deliver sophisticated and innovative legal services to our clients.Dentons is a truly “polycentric” international law firm that fully embraces the diversity of its geography, cultures and legal traditions. The Firm has no headquarters, no dominant national culture, and proudly offers clients talent from diverse backgrounds and countries with deep experience in Civil Law, English Common Law and US Common Law.At Dentons, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to the success and strength of our Firm and the quality of our advice to, and representation of, our clients. We are committed to providing a flexible environment where everyone respects, supports and learns from our collective skills, talents and differences. By attracting, supporting, prompting and retaining individuals from all backgrounds, inclusive of race, ethnicity, faith, religion or spiritual beliefs, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, abilities, social perspective and other characteristics, we create a dynamic and inclusive work environment that is critical to our success.Wherever you are in the world, we look forward to hearing from you.

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