Project Manager

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join Footasylum to help our development teams deliver value to the business.

This is a full-time role and our offices are in Central Manchester and Rochdale. We currently offer hybrid working with the recommendation of 3 days a week in the office. However, we welcome applicants outside Greater Manchester to start a conversation forfurther flexibility for the right person.

**What you will do** This is a challenging role for an experienced software delivery expert who can:

- Working with and managing the expectations of Senior Stakeholders
- Working with 3rd Parties
- Data Migration
- Integrations
- Budget Management
- Backlog Management, (Azure DevOps experience)
- Resource Management & Coaching skills
- SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)
- Understanding of ITIL, Waterfall & Agile, in particular Scrum
- Risk management (RAID)

**Why Footasylum?** We’ve been going through a digital transformation, changing how we deliver value to our business. A big part of this change is fostering a culture of being open and honest, collaborating, having fun and enabling psychological safety.

We want to create a place for teams to do their best work, and you’ll have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define standards across the teams and contribute to a healthy and happy working environment?

**The Team?** You’ll have the opportunity to contribute towards the established community of practices at Footasylum for delivery managers across all our teams to promote better ways of working.?

Here’s some real examples of what the existing project managers on the team has been working on recently, to give you an idea of the kinds of things you’d be doing:

- Working with key business stakeholders on a coordinated release plan for the relaunch of our loyalty scheme
- Working with Operational teams to bring new technology into production
- Collaborating with teams within the Tech department to integrate our APIs with their services and systems
- Coaching the team on all aspects of the Scrum framework while facilitating the delivery of two-week cycles
- Teaching the team how to use different problem-solving approaches (reverse brainstorm, 5 whys, anti-goals etc) so we can use the right approach to understanding where we can improve
- Working together with the Product Managers and the teams on our product roadmap.
- Being an active member of our CoP including running sessions and hosting our CoP book club
- Supporting our Portfolio process with timely updates on progress

We also swarm on issues with the wider teams if required using the equivalent of an Andon cord so people are alerted to and team up on fixes together. At every point, you’ll have the support of your team and the business to do the right thing with autonomy,mastery, and purpose.

Above everything else, you’ll have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define standards across the teams and contribute to a healthy and happy working environment.?

**About You?** Within your current role you’ll have demonstrated excellent servant-leadership, helping to guide teams to successful delivery while working to enable and support in any way the team requires.

As a project manager you constantly look for ways to improve team health and happiness, supporting personal skills growth and collaboration both within the team and across the business. Where the team needs additional support, you will be proactive in recognisingand resolving with coaching, skills transfer, and training.

You will be proactive at engaging stakeholders and will be comfortable having conversations about scope and delivery timescales with senior members of the organisation. You will take responsibility for setting and attaining goals for the team. Where necessaryyou will be comfortable organising and facilitating workshops to share knowledge and resolve issues.

With the uncertainties facing the retail sector now, you’ll need to be willing and able to pivot and adapt to changing priorities as new opportunities are identified, keeping the team engaged throughout.

**Salary and Benefits?** We’re offering a salary of up to £60,000 for the right person, which we assess based on your own experiences, delivery skills and against the principles of our department and our ways of working. You’ll also get access to our ‘FA Presents’ company benefitsplatform, 25 days holiday and pension as standard, and use of our training budget to help you develop your skills.

**Diversity?** We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. Thisis great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.