Job Ref: 215032844

Date: 2021-10-29 15:29:50

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Project Operations Manager
Based: Hybrid with offices based in High Wycombe
Term: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £42000pa
Overview:
We're looking for a highly motivated Project Operations Manager to join the Programme Department and support its Project Management and Agile Delivery functions with the delivery of new hardware and software products to market. The right candidate must be organised, a quick learner, and able to coordinate with cross-functional departments that include members of Product Management, Operations, Engineering, Sales and Marketing to evolve and transform the frameworks used to deliver projects and provide valuable business insights to stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
* Ensure our bespoke project management framework reflects the current working methods and best practices from all departments engaged in the new product development process, ensuring it is fit for purpose and maintained to a high standard.
* Work with stakeholders from multiple departments and business units to make sure solutions are developed and implemented successfully to address business problems.
* Ownership of Programme and Project Management data architecture. Ensure the right data is available and meets the requirements of the Programme department and other stakeholders across the business. Create and maintain data models using Power BI to ingest data from multiple sources and use them to build reports and dashboards
* Ownership of internal project management process backlog, working with the Programme Team to prioritise and deliver value.
* Administrate and make configuration updates to our enterprise Project Management and resource management software packages, SharePoint and online assets so they meet the evolving needs of the Programme Department and Project Teams
* Create and maintain process documentation to ensure projects run efficiently and predictably.
* Champion our ‘Lessons Learned' process designed to capture project learnings across the new product development portfolio.
Skills and experience required:
* Experience working with multidisciplinary teams in a process-driven environment.
* Passion for process efficiency, modelling and continuous improvement designed to help teams achieve their full potential.
* An interest in Business Intelligence and leveraging data to define and uphold KPIs.
* Ability to engage with and manage stakeholders at multiple levels, including design engineers, team managers and wider departmental stakeholders to drive and implement change.
* Experience in requirements gathering and documentation.
* Demonstrable experience using Business Analysis techniques to define and implement solutions.
* Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
* Exceptional organisation and time-management skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
The ideal candidate will have:
* Experience using Power BI to create and maintain data models and reports.
* Experience with New Product Development cycles and processes (Hardware and Software)
* Experience using Change Management techniques.
About Us:
Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity. We want to create opportunities for everyone to enjoy making music, from musicians trying to capture their unique sound, to the professionals delivering the greatest shows on earth. The Focusrite Group has an illustrious history with four Queen's Awards for Enterprise among a host of other accolades. We comprise six successful and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation and Ampify Music. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning over four decades, our brands continue to shape the music-making world.
Focusrite leads that world in audio interfacing technology – more musicians record through Focusrite than any other brand. The Focusrite Pro team are focussed on the complex needs of the audio professional for whom sound is not just a passion, but a way of life. Martin Audio have been uniting audiences for almost five decades with their awe-inspiring touring and installation loudspeaker systems. Based in Berlin, ADAM Audio are precision innovators in the field of professional monitoring and loudspeaker technology, made famous by their unique ART ribbon tweeter. Novation is obsessed with helping electronic music makers find new ways to produce and perform new music. Born out of that team and based in Tileyard, King's Cross, London, Ampify Music make innovative music-making apps that are highly accessible, yet extendable and deep.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in, and that's not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means remaining open to new ideas. We enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture, where we can all contribute and everyone is heard as we grow and develop, both as individuals and as a team. We encourage innovation and fresh-thinking and are passionate about the inspirational solutions we create. Behind our success is a tightly knitted, like-minded family of music and audio lovers. We're always pulling together to try and make a difference; our frequent appearance in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For' is testament to this.
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage people to apply regardless of religion, ethnic background, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity. We recognise the diversity shortcomings of our industry and are committed to driving change. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible working, home working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, company music events,offsite company parties and free breakfast/lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions, hold making things easy days,encourage personal development training, run lunch and learns and facilitate external visits

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