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Project Manager

2 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Ocado Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team at Ocado Group. As a key member of our project delivery team, you will play a pivotal role in guiding and supporting the Technology mission in successfully delivering critical and essential projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leading and Influencing
    • Create a strong sense of purpose and mission for the project team
    • Champion business requirements and communicate these in a compelling way to the project team
    • Make effective, strategic decisions, with a clear rationale and using appropriate tools for the scenario
    • Role models behaviours and applies Ocado Technology principles in day to day work
    • Lead stakeholders at all levels across the business
    • Promote the craft of Project Management throughout Ocado Technology, and share best practice with colleagues
  • Planning, Tracking & Delivery
    • Define requirements and scope of project by collaborating with our Engineering and Product teams
    • Develop, communicate and maintain a clear approach to managing any project, including highlighting critical path, key dependencies and milestone dates
    • Responsible for forecasting, monitoring and tracking budget and resource usage
    • Provide governance to all assigned projects to ensure timely and quality delivery
    • Drive project teams to achieve milestones and project goals
    • Organise and execute orderly project closures and handovers
    • Apply domain knowledge and technical concepts/ methodologies to project delivery
  • Stakeholder Management
    • Bring together relevant stakeholders for collaboration and decision making by critically assessing stakeholder influence over the project and business (using appropriate tools to support this)
    • Provide regular, concise and relevant reporting for stakeholders to build a common understanding of project requirements and progress
    • Influence negative stakeholders and take them to a positive position
    • Lead negotiations with internal and third party stakeholders in order to reach commercially viable solutions per the project and business requirement
  • Facilitation
    • Engage teams and individuals to collaborate in a productive and supportive environment to produce idea formation and innovation
    • Lead and facilitate inclusive meetings to drive consensus and decision
    • Form and share ideas on how to improve project and process efficiency
    • Distribute project information and outcomes, and follow up on actions
  • Risk and Issue Management
    • Use a variety of appropriate methods to seek, identify, log and track project risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle
    • Quantify and qualify project risk against business impact and take appropriate decisions
    • Lead risk and issue mitigation planning and implement strategies in line with project tolerances
    • React to risk and issues as they arise and lead appropriate, timely, project response
    Requirements
    • Experience of managing high risk, high complexity product development projects and life cycles in a fast paced environment - bringing new products to market - from Problem Definition through to Benefits Realisation
    • Experience managing project budgets as well as an appreciation of other related metrics such as cost of ownership of products
    • Experience in vendor selection and long term engagement for the delivery of services and products
    • Experience in giving effective presentations to senior stakeholders with different agendas and providing compelling evidence to guide stakeholders to the correct decision or consensus
    • Strong understanding and experience of leading projects, using various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc) within a structured stage-gated development process.
    • Strong experience of working with and managing a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders
    Desirable Skills
    • Evidenced experience or improving project management capability and outcomes in a team or business
    • Project management expertise with a recognised Project Management qualification/accreditation (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, AgilePM, etc)
    • Experience relating to automation hardware and / or software development
    • Experience in understanding requirements trade-offs and applying the appropriate analysis tools in order to make decisions and manage variations and consult stakeholders as appropriate to gain resolution
    • Must have very good negotiation skills with the ability to listen, comprehend, consider and assimilate others points of view with their own beliefs and visions
    • Strong problem solving skills, able to demonstrate the ability to think out of the box and apply creativity in solving project related problems to mutually agreeable solutions
    What We Offer
    • A competitive salary and benefits package
    • A Work from Home policy that sees you in the office typically 40% of your time (depending on project requirements)
    • 30 days working from anywhere policy
    • Wellbeing support through Apps and an Employee Assistance Programme
    • 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
    • Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
    • Private Medical Insurance
    • 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete)
    • Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
    • Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
    • Opportunity to participate in Share save and Buy as You Earn share schemes
    • 15% discount on and free delivery for all employees
    • Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary)
    About Ocado Group

Ocado Group is a leading technology company that is transforming the way people shop for groceries. We are developing our own groundbreaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate, and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world.

We are looking for talented individuals who share our passion for innovation and customer satisfaction. If you are a motivated and experienced Project Manager looking for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.