Project Coordinator

**Project Coordinator | Welwyn Garden City | Hybrid (2 days office depending on project requirements)**:
**About Us**:
**About the role**:
Working alongside our Engineering and Product teams, this role will support the Technology mission in successfully delivering critical and essential projects. You'll be working with others around the Ocado Group business to find great solutions to our unique challenges.

**What you will be doing**:
**Leading and Influencing**
- Lead co-workers and project teams on project tasks
- Respond positively to change
- Take on board new information and knowledge quickly, putting into action positively and effectively
- Share knowledge with project community
- Proactive mindset to all tasks

**Planning, Tracking & Delivery**
- Gather requirements to define project scope
- Create supporting project materials outlining critical paths, milestones and key dependencies
- Monitor and track the usage of project resource
- Support project team in delivery of project goals
- Support the organisation and execution of project closure and handover
- Build an understanding of key technical concepts and domain knowledge needed for the role

**Stakeholder Management**
- Assist the creation and execution of stakeholder matrices and communications plans
- Provide regular and concise reporting for key stakeholders
- Point of contact for communication and updates regarding projects
- Source relevant information needed for key decisions
- Identify both positive and negative stakeholders, and work with the project team to influence their positions.

**Facilitation**
- Support the formation and creation of involved teams and individuals to collaborate on project tasks
- Solve non-complex project problems independently
- Responsible for facilitating project meetings
- Help to create a productive and supportive project environment
- Share and distribute project information, outcomes, and follow up actions

**Risk and Issue Management**- Manage risks and issues using various tools and techniques
- Support your team and manager with the administration of risk and issue management
- Gather information to score risks/issues
- Contribute to risk mitigation planning
- Recognise potential risk and supports risk resolution

**We'd love to talk to you if you have...**:

- Ability to act autonomously and problem-solve in a fast-paced and challenging environment
- Knowledge and experience of project management methodologies like Waterfall or Agile
- Excellent self-discipline and personal accountability
- Experience managing project plans & budgets as well as an appreciation of other related metrics such as cost of ownership of products
- Experience in giving effective presentations to stakeholders with different agendas and providing compelling evidence to guide stakeholders to the correct decision or consensus.

**Bonus points if you also have**:

- Experience of working in a dynamic, fast-paced, commercial environment or organisation
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience of co-ordinating or assisting on projects, using various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc) within a structured stage-gated development process.
- Evidenced experience or improving project management capability and outcomes in a team or business
- Good experience relating to automation hardware or software development
- Good negotiation skills with the ability to listen, comprehend, consider and assimilate others points of view with their own beliefs and visions

**What we offer you...**:
Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we've ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately. Currently, we offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and;
- 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
- Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary)

**Be bold, be unique, be brilliant, be you.** We are looking for individuality and we value diversity. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and equally. We are committed to maki