Transformation Project Manager

**Transformation Project Manager - Remote / Burton-on-Trent**

Please note two days per week are compulsary onsite in Burton for this Project Manager.**
Role purpose-**:

- Delivering commercial, multi-disciplinary projects to hit our strategic objectives
- Working with all departments across the business, engaging stakeholders at all levels
- Ensuring an effective delivery of people, technology and process change
- Forming cross-functional project teams to deliver simple, pragmatic and effective solutions
**Responsibilities-**:

- Maintain a structured approach to project management, ensuring projects are delivered to time, quality and cost expectations
- Manage the project through the key stages of the project lifecycle ensuring authorisation to proceed is obtained from the project board
- Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and document in project brief and initiation documentation
- Define and gain agreement to the project business case using clear cost/benefit analysis
- Work with senior stakeholders to analyse requirements, define business requirements and the required project outputs to deliver benefits
- Define the project activities and plan required to deliver the project outputs
- Define and gain commitment to change management activities across the business required to embed the changes delivered by the project
- Lead the project team in delivering project outputs that are capable of delivering project benefits
- Identify risks to the project and work with stakeholders to identify owners and mitigation plans including escalation to Executive level where required
- Manage project issues through to resolution with project team members or escalate to appropriate levels where required
- Track and report project deliverables to the project board and key stakeholders using standard templates
- Manage scope changes through the change control process to ensure that the business case is still valid and that the project board sign-off any changes to scope
- Ensure that deliverables are completed to acceptable time, cost and quality standards
- Complete post-project project evaluation to capture key success and learning points for future projects
- Work closely with key stakeholders across all functions of the business, in particular the Programme Manager, Heads of Department, Senior Stakeholders, cross functional project teams and external Suppliers
**Skills & Experience -**:

- Experienced in delivering commercially focused projects for a fast paced, high growth, complex business, ideally in a retail and/or wholesale environment (but not essential), with projects that cut across multiple operating companies.
- Proficient in successfully running cross functional projects with a commercial focus
- Experienced in running large scale projects worth £10 million plus
- A hands-on leader with demonstrable experience of establishing and managing cross functional project teams
- Highly experienced in stakeholder management and the ability to influence at all levels
- Able to understand and establish business requirements and create structured plans over the short and long term
- Commercially astute with the ability to produce and articulate sound business plans that demonstrate clear business benefits and return on investment for proposed projects
- A strategic and analytical thinker
- Very strong in communication and relationship skills
- An experienced Project Manager who is able to hit the ground running
- Able to deliver software solutions as well as people and progress change
**Decision Making -**:

- Freedom within the set boundaries of agreed time, cost and scope of the project/programme.
**Scope of Influence -**:

- You will be working with cross functional project and programme teams
- Escalating risk, issues and decisions to the appropriate forum/stakeholders to ensure fluidity of the Project
**Facts & Figures -**:

- The Transformation team is a new team being developed as part of central services within our client.
- This exciting new team will be responsible for the delivery of the strategic portfolio.