Senior Project Manager

Purpose

Management of strategic projects within the group – such as transformation projects, systems implementation, process engineering, compliance etc. This may involve setting up project structures, resourcing and managing delivery teams, planning and driving delivery to business case and project plans, project governance.

Minimum requirements

• Degree in Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain Management
• Post-graduate qualification in project management would be advantageous eg. PMBOK, Agile project training.
• At least 5+ years’ experience of which 2 years involve the management of projects at some level.
• MS Office, MS Projects

Main duties

• Plan and monitor projects.
• Manage the delivery of the project deliverables.
• Direct and motivate the project team.
• Produce the business cases, project initiation documents, workstream plans, exception plans etc.
• Manage the risks, including the development of contingency plans.
• Liaise with programme management if the project is part of a programme.
• Liaise with programme management or related projects to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated.
• Take responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiate corrective action where necessary.
• Be responsible for change control and any required configuration management.
• Prepare various progress reports and present to the relevant change structures as required.
• Agree technical and quality strategy with appropriate members of the Project team.
• Prepare the Lessons Learned Report.
• Prepare any Follow-on Action Recommendations required.
• Prepare the End Project Report.
• Identify and obtain any support and advice required for the management, planning and control of the project.
• Be responsible for project administration.

Key competencies

• Understands the project and product lifecycle phases of projects and how they need to be managed.
• Excellent technical and project problem solving skills.
• Project Management skills.

Duration

• 18 Months