Senior Manager, Project Management

1 month ago

Reading Berkshire, United Kingdom Primark Full time

Project Manager / 6 month contract / Day rate negotiable/ Hybrid – Reading(1 day a week in the office)
Are you as excited about the intersection of technology and retail as we are? Here at Primark we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join us on an initial 6 month contract, with hybrid working where you would need to go into our Reading office 1 day a week.(Please note that we would also welcome candidates who would like to be based out of our Dublin office 1 day per week)

This is a project/change management role accountable for ensuring successful delivery of a multi workstream project. The person will be responsible for upholding robust governance processes in a highly visible project.

Project Management
• Working cross-functionally with the Transformation and Technology Lean Portfolio teams, drive the delivery with the 3rd party vendor to successfully launch and embed the new tool in Primark.
• Create and manage the project plans for all designated workstreams and integrate change management activities into project plans, aligning on logistical support, planned releases and operational readiness
• Supporting business leads by planning and maintaining the key activities across workstreams.
• Identify and flag any risks to the critical path and/or budget and identify mitigating actions or escalating to the business lead as required.
• Establish and facilitate the meeting rhythms and routines for the project to ensure it is within budget, on time and delivering desired outcomes.
• Manage the resources, budgets and ensure that all workstream/s within the project are delivered on time and to a high quality.
• Communicate project health and progress to key stakeholders through insightful and accurate reporting.
• Ensure project KPIs are measured, achieved, and communicated and any concerns raised and resolved.
• Identify interdependencies and risks within the project with a view to mitigation.
• Ensure the change, training and adoption are planned and landed to the highest standards.
• Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities across the programme while remaining responsive to shifting demands and ambiguity.
• Embed and embrace our culture of change across Primark leveraging our Values and Behaviours, using data, models, frameworks, tools, and innovative techniques.
• Maintain oversight of transition to BAU management
• Work closely with the Business Analyst and the business owners (Transformation and Technology Lean Portfolio) to drive the delivery of the project plan and the transition from one tool to the next.

Stakeholder Management
• Support the project in identifying the full range of interested or impacted stakeholders.
• Represent the project on multi-level working groups and by coordinating inputs, preparing required reports, and meeting materials or delivering updates.
• Continuously evaluate and challenge any changes in activities to ensure these are aligned to and deliver the project objectives.
• Record, track and monitor agreed actions from all meetings and assign activities and tasks to the project teams’ members.
• Collaborate with internal and external resources to deliver project milestone and objectives.
• Project Governance
• Seek and maintain full understanding of all areas of the project, cross functional dependencies, resources, risks, and issues, and communicate and escalate as required.
• Work within EPMO and Change frameworks to identify impacts, capacity constraints and other project related requirements.
• Change Impact Assessment, Learning Needs Analysis, Comms approach, climate, and capacity analysis) complete change impact assessments, capability needs, implementation planning, measurement strategy and embedding approach.
• Initiate and drive project reporting and insights using Primark templates to enable fast-paced decision-making and risk management including progress reports to key stakeholders and forums.

Project Governance
• Seek and maintain full understanding of all areas of the project, cross functional dependencies, resources, risks, and issues, and communicate and escalate as required.
• Work within EPMO and Change frameworks to identify impacts, capacity constraints and other project related requirements.
• Initiate and drive project reporting and insights using Primark templates to enable fast-paced decision-making and risk management including progress reports to key stakeholders and forums.

At least 3+ years project / change management experience with an understanding of industry standard methodologies e.g. Agile, Lean, Hybrid, Waterfall
• Formal Project Management qualification (desired).
• Carried out the same role in an FMCG or Retail company
• Proven experience driving big initiatives to implementation (cross border / cross functional)
• Excellent diligence and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview.
• Collaborative team player demonstrating high levels of emotional intelligence and the ability to push back with professionalism.
• The successful project manager would have project and change management experience within a retail or FMCG environment

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