Junior Project Manager
5 days ago
Welcome to Card Factory - and your opportunity to be part of our exciting future. As the country’s largest, independent gift and greetings card retailer with over 1000 stores, Card Factory is really thriving. As well as being a progressive, exciting andfriendly company, we reward our people’s commitment and determination.
As a Card Factory **Junior Project Manager**, you will have a 12 month Development Plan managing Technical and Commercial Projects as part of the Business 5 year strategy Plan and Portfolio of work. This could be supporting another PM, or managingsmaller pieces of work
You will contain and resolve issues within the projects that do not require sponsor attention and ensure sponsors receive the right information at the right time regarding project performance. As a Junior PM it is integral that you uphold a strong relationshipwith key stakeholders as they will dictate the project expectations. Ultimately, you will serve as the point of contact for the Project, Project Sponsor, Business Unit and overall project team.
In this role, you will promote and uphold the CF Project Lifecycle and governance guidelines in delivering projects to Time, Cost and Quality.
**Main Responsibilities**:
- Take part in a 12 month development plan which will cover, but not limited to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and be responsibility for ensuring the integrity of Card Factory Project methodology is maintained
- Develop your experience/exposure in a Prince2 or Agile environment or similar
- Demonstrate knowledge of successfully controlling and delivering a number of IT and business projects in a complex end to end retail business including but not limited to: back office systems, supply chain, warehouse, HR & Finance, Architecture and Infrastructure.
- Managing end-to-end delivery of your Projects to support the strategic direction of the organisation.
- Demonstrate stakeholder management by liaising with functional business groups in order to scope project requirements and ensure best practice is adopted and interdependencies are recognised/optimised.
- Demonstrate you control of business projects to agreed time/cost/deliverable targets.
- Responsibility for ensuring client sign off at each stage of the project.
- Ensuring that compliance is adhered to against legal, regulatory, policy and best practice requirements within any given project.
- Supporting any project related Testing (ST/SIT/UAT/Regression/Performance/Operation) within your statement of work
- Transitioning of projects from development to Live.
- Producing and maintaining MS Project plans
- Management of any project related Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Change Requests
- The use of MS Teams, Project, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel skills.
- Providing project performance information to sponsors per the schedule defined in the performance reporting process.
- Developing a budget and operating plan for the project.
- Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions on services.
- Producing accurate and timely reporting of project status throughout its life cycle
- Producing project governance adherence to a gold standard
**Essential**
- Successful completion of a 12 month training programme within CF, or
- Evidence of Project Management exposure
**Preferable**
- Presentation skills.
- Retail background
- Process analysis and documentation
- Able to influence and negotiate with people at all levels
- PM Qualification (Prince2, P30, PM Fundementals, Scrum Master, Agile)
**About The Company**
In return we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
- 33 days annual leave entitlement (inc public / bank holidays)
- Save as you Earn scheme
- 15% Staff Discount
- Discounted Gym Memberships
- O2 open mobile contracts
- Salary Finance
- Pension
- Discounted Car Leasing
- Employee Care
- Flex My Day
- Card Factory Foundation
- MyCardFactory App: discounts at leading retailers
No agencies please.
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