Project Manager

**Salary: Competitive** **Grade: 3A Contract Type: Permanent Location: London or Chesterfield Reporting to: Change Resource Manager Division: Strategy & Transformation** **The Purpose of the Role** This role is responsible for the delivery of strategically important and high profile projects or Work Streams from initiation through delivery, implementation, close down, and hand over to operational teams. This will typically be operating within a portfoliovia a project/programme or value stream/Agile Release Train - delivering via both agile/traditional/hybrid approaches. The role holder will be overseeing everything from the high level engagement and governance with key decision makers and stakeholders, leading on project approach and structure - down through to delivery on the ground with internal and supplier side deliveryteams. **Principal Accountabilities** - Senior PM will work on more complex or high profile projects - Will lead delivery independently or with/through other PMs assigned to the delivery - Working cross functionally in matrix teams to deliver business solutions, ensuring that the critical success factors are met while scope, time, quality and cost of the projects are maintained. Confident to deliver through both traditional and agile methods(including SAFe at scale). - Delivering business critical projects/work steams to time, cost and quality and maximising the delivery of value to the business. **Qualifications, Experience & Skills** - Strong management skills, ability to work within a defined framework covering processes standards, risk/issue/dependency management, change control and reporting - Delivery leader with positive, proactive, can do approach - Strong interpersonal and communication skills with Director level staff through to project teams - Prince 2 (desirable) - Scrum Certification (Scrum Master, Product Owner etc) (desirable) - SAFe certification (desirable) **About The Post Office** The Post Office has thrived at the heart of high streets and local communities across the UK for over 370 years. As one of the country’s most trusted brands, we take our commitment to providing essential services to customers across the UK very seriously.We’re the UK’s largest retail network, as well as the largest financial services provider in the UK, with over 11,600 branches nationwide - more than all of the UK’s banks and building societies put together. We know that the best way to provide a great service for customers is to evolve our business and adapt to their changing needs. That’s why we have a range of over 170 products and services, from personal financial services like banking, insurance, paymentsand travel money, to telecoms and, of course, mails. And we’re improving our online and in store experience for customers. We know that our customers never stop changing, so neither will we. We're here, in person, for the people who rely on us. **Our Ways of Working** underpin everything we do, they are the "How" of our business strategy. They differentiate our business and aim to inspire great behaviours and align our colleagues around specific actions in order to be the organisationwe want to be, and achieve our business goals. By living the Ways of Working each day, you will help make that vision a reality and enable our cultural transformation. In short**:Working in partnership**, as **one team**, we **deliver**amazing results **The Post Office embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace and actively promote working without discrimination. We are also a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to interviewing disabled people who meet our minimum criteria forthe job.