Senior Project Manager

SUMMARY:
PM to assist on company's Sales and Distribution Portfolio, on Warehouse, Aftersales, etc.

POSITION INFO:

WE ARE ASSISTING ONE OF OUR CLIENTS TO FILL A ROLE OF A SNR PROJECT MANAGER

THIS IS A CONTRACT FOR 6 MOTNHS

Summary:

The business requires a Senior, Cross-functional, and Experienced Project Manager to assist on company''s Sales and Distribution Portfolio, on Warehouse, Aftersales, Informal Channel, BRC and Retail channel

The Services shall commence on (ASAP) and shall endure for an initial period of 6-1 year from such commencement date and terminate on (TBC).

RESOURCES COMPETENCIES AND SKILL

The Business Project Manager works in a business area and is responsible for the successful delivery of an entire project, end to end, that could have work-streams in many business areas. 

The Project Manager is accountable to the Project Sponsor for the successful delivery of the Project Objectives.

The Project Manager leads the Project Team which will often include Managers for specific Work streams (often, one of the Work stream Managers in the Project Team will be the IS Project Manager).

The Project Manager will manage the Work stream Managers for those work streams within the Project.

The Projects will be part of a wider Programme.  In these cases, whilst the Project Manager formally reports to the Programme Manager for the duration of the Project, s/he will have a ‘dotted line’ reporting relationship to the Project Sponsor and the Senior Manager Business Project Programme Capability.

External Project Managers (i.e. those that are not company''s permanent staff) will have an explicit objective for skills transfer, and measurable targets for the support of company''s own development of a business project management capability.

Responsibilities

The Project Manager will:

Be responsible for the Project Team (and ensure that it is always fully resourced)

Define the Project Organisation (the structure of the Project, the arrangements for its Governance, and the Controls that will be used to manage it)

Define or confirm, and gain agreement to the Scope of the Project

Prepare and maintain the Project Plan

Prepare and maintain the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (if the Project is part of a Programme, this might be developed and managed at programme level)

Prepare the Communications Strategy and Plan (ditto)

Assist the Project Sponsor to develop or confirm, and maintain the Project Business Case (ditto)

Approve work stream Plans and manage dependencies between work streams

Manage the Project (using the Project Controls) and ensure governance operates as per the Project Organisation

Direct the work stream Managers

Report Project Progress to the Project Sponsor (with recommendations for Risk Management and Issue Resolution) and to the Programme Manager where relevant

Manage Risks for which s/he is identified as the Risk Owner

Resolve Issues for which s/he is identified as the Issue Owner

Approve (or Reject) Change Requests that are within his/her Delegation of Authority

Provide recommendations to the Project Sponsor (and Programme Manager where relevant) as to readiness for Project launches, and work with the Business Owner to develop and implement transition plans for the adoption of project deliverables by the business

Support the Programme Manager (where relevant) in his/her management of the Programme

Ensure that Project Reviews are carried out after each Project launch and that lessons learned are fed back into the Programme (where relevant) and disseminated to those in organisation who need to know.

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