Job Ref: 214848212

Date: 2021-10-07 17:42:52

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Join us as a Supply Chain Project Manager with The Perfume Shop

(High Wycombe, Full-time, Permanent)

About Capita

At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever – and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

The role of Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.

Responsibilities:

Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously

Manage and coordinate automation projects

Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization

Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings

Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards

Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders

Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues

Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO, and key stakeholders

Skills:

Excellent experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall/ Prince2

Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations

Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands

Experience negotiating vendor contracts

Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary

Experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close

Technically competent with various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Projects, ServiceNow, Smartsheet and Lucid Chart CA Clarity PPM

Support diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience

Project management experience, including tracking and planning projects

Experience with full product lifecycle with understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle

Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective

Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross – functional environment

Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities

Desirable Skills:

Demonstrates multiple projects and programmes to coordinate these

Collect the changes, work with group IT in multiple international sites (Milan, Hong Kong)

These supply chain systems need to work internationally and then internal stakeholders in the UK perfume shop

Supply chain background will be a benefit – understand complexities

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