My large retail client is looking for a Project Manager to work on a digital transformation program to lead teams in a variety of development projects.
Role Purpose
- Delivering commercial, multi-disciplinary projects to hit our strategic objectives
- Working with all departments across the business, engaging stakeholders at all levels
- Ensuring an effective delivery of people, technology and process change
- Forming cross-functional project teams to deliver simple, pragmatic and effective solutions
Responsibilities
- Maintain a structured approach to project management, ensuring projects are delivered to time, quality and cost expectations
- Manage the project through the key stages of the project lifecycle ensuring authorisation to proceed is obtained from the project board
- Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and document in project brief and initiation documentation
- Define and gain agreement to the project business case using clear cost/benefit analysis
- Work with senior stakeholders to analyse requirements, define business requirements and the required project outputs to deliver benefits
- Define the project activities and plan required to deliver the project outputs
- Define and gain commitment to change management activities across the business required to embed the changes delivered by the project
- Lead the project team in delivering project outputs that are capable of delivering project benefits
- Identify risks to the project and work with stakeholders to identify owners and mitigation plans including escalation to Executive level where required
- Manage project issues through to resolution with project team members or escalate to appropriate levels where required
- Track and report project deliverables to the project board and key stakeholders using standard templates
- Manage scope changes through the change control process to ensure that the business case is still valid and that the project board sign-off any changes to scope
- Ensure that deliverables are completed to acceptable time, cost and quality standards
- Complete post-project project evaluation to capture key success and learning points for future projects
- Work closely with key stakeholders across all functions of the business, in particular the Programme Manager, Heads of Department, Senior Stakeholders, cross functional project teams and external suppliers.
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