Lead Project Manager

2 months ago

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Ocado Logistics Full time
About the Role

The Project Delivery Talent Pool provides project professionals to our regional project teams to deliver a range of projects across the globe, including large scale installations of our OSP solution into partner warehouses, the introduction of new products and changes to our existing installations.

The Lead Project Manager role takes full ownership and accountability for large scale (up to £100m capital value) end-to-end projects, supporting both our retail partners as well as internal project delivery teams. The role is external partner/internal stakeholder-facing and has budget, people management and decision-making responsibilities for the full scope of the project.

Key Responsibilities
  • Take full ownership and accountability for large scale (up to £100m capital value) end-to-end projects, supporting both our retail partners as well as internal project delivery teams.
  • Provide visible and effective leadership, with a focus on knowledge sharing.
  • Create and contribute to the company culture and Ocado values.
  • Have direct and indirect people management responsibilities, including day-to-day management of a team and various disciplines, proactively driving the development of the team and working with individuals to set objectives and create development plans.
  • Work side by side with Ocado's partner clients throughout the delivery of the project and be their key 'go to' liaison point for project topics.
  • Ensure that the project is successfully delivered to scope, budget, schedule and quality.
  • Drive the project by responding proactively to breaking issues, competing priorities and key dependencies to ensure that the right decisions are taken swiftly.
  • Maintain and monitor progress of the project against Ocado's standard project methodologies.
  • Be the key project decision maker, managing risks and issues within the project with regular reporting and escalating to senior management when appropriate.
  • Inspire confidence across the project with timely, professional communications to all levels of the business.
  • Proactively contribute to the development of best practice for our delivery methodology.
  • Monitor lessons learned with a continuous improvement approach.
Requirements
  • Have the leadership qualities required to drive each stage of your project with various internal and external (partner and construction) teams, whether in a head office situation or on site, during a construction phase.
  • Exhibit strong ownership and leadership skills and quickly earn client and stakeholder trust.
  • Remove blockers by identifying alternative and effective ways to manage projects and teams.
  • Support, develop and mentor your team and others across Project Management.
  • Have a highly analytical and logical approach to work.
  • Determine and utilise appropriate communication channels and utilise meaningful insights from data.
  • Be able to read ambiguous situations quickly.
  • Have the experience in understanding and appropriately challenging expert opinions.
  • Be able to respond quickly and effectively to changing priorities.
  • Be experienced in influencing a wide range of business professionals across all levels.
  • Be able to communicate complex ideas across projects and senior leadership teams.
  • Have the ability to show initiative, self motivation and innovation.
  • Hold effective conversations and share information of good quality.
  • Actively listen, understand and respond to stakeholders and customers.
  • Proactively maintain good working relationships.
  • Actively support business growth, process and operational improvement.
  • Have experience leading and delivering large scale projects as the project lead.
  • Have customer facing project experience.
  • It would be beneficial if you have skills in an additional language.
  • Ideally you have had exposure to international clients and/or projects
  • You are proficient with project management tools.
  • You have experience leading people across major capital projects.
  • You are skilled in managing contracts including high labour content
  • You will have a Bachelors Degree level or higher or equivalent experience.
  • You hold a formal project management qualification e.g. PMP, APM (PMQ, PPQ) or Prince 2 Practitioner
Bonus Points
  • Korean language skills

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