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The project manager organizes and plans the implementation of a project, from its design phase through to its deployment, relying on internal or external resources.

On average, a project manager charges 300 euros per day at junior level and 750 euros per day for senior profiles, specialized in growing sectors. An IT Project Manager has a fixed salary of around £35,000. Most receive variable compensation in addition going up to £50,000 gross per year.

In charge of a project from A to Z, the project manager is a conductor who must demonstrate technical, organizational and functional skills to successfully carry out their projects.

On a daily basis, the IT Project Manager, or Product Owner, manages a variety of tasks and responsibilities as part of their duties. - project discovery; - identification and analysis of client needs and technical and functional specifications; - consideration of the skills and qualifications of each project participant; - team coordination; - assignment of roles to each member; - distribution of tasks between technical profiles (Data/Database Expert specialists, technicians, freelance developers, network architects, web designers...) and communication profiles (community managers, SEO managers); - drafting of specifications; - transmission to technical teams; - meeting deadlines; - work monitoring and supervision; - ensuring consistency between delivery and client expectations.

The project manager leads a team under their responsibility. As such, to successfully carry out their mission, they must master, in part, the skills of the different profiles they manage: - programming languages - algorithmic and syntactic concepts - commercial skills - market monitoring - specialization in a specific technology: Imad, Java/JavaEE project manager...

In terms of soft skills, the project manager has some essential qualities: - managerial know-how; - interpersonal skills; - conflict management; - sharing of responsibility and collaboration between functional project manager and technical project manager in large-scale projects, sometimes under the supervision of a project management office. In addition to these cross-functional skills, the IT project manager must master various tools that are very useful for project management, especially in a remote work context.