Supply Chain PMO Lead

**Welcome to KFC**

Take one man with a big idea, add 11 herbs and spices, grit, ambition, and buckets of heart - you’ve got KFC.

Since 1939, we’ve been bringing finger lickin’ good chicken to the world, and today we’re proud to be in over 1000 communities across the UK & Ireland. But without our people, none of it would be possible. Just like our recipe, they’re all original.

Join us. Bring it. And together, we can be part of something truly extraordinary.

**Bringing it to the role.**

The PAN Europe Supply Chain Team is made up of four functions: Procurement; Product Integrity, SCM (Supply Chain Management) and the CoE (Supply Chain Centre of Excellence). Collectively, they are responsible for managing the end-to-end supply chain for PAN Europe which is comprised of over 2600 stores across 4 BU’s: UK&I, France, WEBU & CEE. The region is expected to grow at over 150 stores per annum.

The PMO is located within the PAN European Supply Chain Centre of Excellence function and will support stakeholders across the PAN European SC Regional and BU Project teams. The role is responsible for managing the execution of strategic programs and projects, driving stakeholder engagement, and accelerating Supply Chain transformation to ensure implementation success, increase speed to competence, create a standard approach to delivery, and inspire a bias for action.

**What you’ll do**
- Managing the Supply Chain portfolio of projects including SIA (Strategy in Action) projects, Value Creation projects (e.g. Spend Smarter), Systems Transformation projects (e.g. Trace One), Data Automation and Reporting projects (e.g. Robotic Process Automation)
- Collaborating with and liaising between process owners, functional project champions, technical experts, solution providers and other stakeholders in the Regional and BU teams to ensure that our projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Developing and implementing project management processes and tools, and for ensuring that governance is followed by all project team members and stakeholders.
- Facilitating Project Planning: refine scope definitions, prioritize tasks, set deadlines and assign resources to various deliverables so that each project can hit the ground running with mínimal wasted time and resources.
- Maintaining Project Documentation: ensure the accurate completion of documents relating to a project’s scope, budget resources and justification.
- Controlling Project Finances: ensure adherence to project budgets, quantify monetary risk and impact, provide project budget and financial reports to project leadership teams for review at project steering meetings.
- Improving Project Processes: develop new processes and improve pre-existing processes, continually reevaluate whether each project is meeting the applicable standards and engage in problem solving with project teams.
- Communicating Effectively: manage project communication efforts, including change management communications and stakeholder engagement.
- Collaborate with team leaders and stakeholders on project-related initiatives, conducting regular project status calls to review project status, identify and facilitate resolution of issues & risks.
- Monitor progress against plans and schedules, identifying and resolving problems, and updating project plans as needed.
- Maintain project documentation, records, activity reports, project plans, writing and disseminating project communications, providing program and project updates to the business stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain project cost control plans, including identifying and tracking budget variances, and supporting budget owners with project budget development and procurement teams with contracting inputs.
- Assist project and process owners with the development of project proposals, project status presentations, preparation for steering committee meetings, access to decision support, project sponsorship or any other resources to keep moving forward.

**What we’d love from you**

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Strong Degree Qualification
- 3+ years’ experience in FMCG or QSR Industry
- Proven experience in leading projects and delivering results.
- Senior stakeholder engagement
- The ability to bring people together and foster a one team mentality.
- Proven analytical skills, a methodical approach to problem solving as well as a result driver.
- High Proficiency in all Microsoft Applications
- particularly Excel and PowerPoint, able to collect data and convert into preferred formats for communication.

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good team focus - creating collaborative cross functional working relationships across the business.
- Bias for action and results orientated.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong attention to detail with an analytical and diligent approach
- Strong team player with a positive can-do attitude
- A self-starter who over-indexes on ownership and