Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Leadership and Programme Management
- Creating governance mechanisms and programme reporting processes.
- Managing the activities across multiple work streams and ensuring interdependencies are tracked
- Leading programme meetings and ensuring that actions are documented and actioned
- Managing project financials and budget and demonstrating commercial acumen by controlling the budget, resourcing and project’s key financial indicators.
- Managing project scope by working closely with delivery teams, addressing changes in a rapid manner and following change management processes.
- Making sure that project and / or programme governance is in place and teams at all levels adhere to agreed governance processes.
- Managing the resources on the programme by collaborating with delivery leads, understanding their requirements and directing them to the right channels in order to their requirements fulfilled.
- Being able to create new or use existing project / programme management framework that would help the team to manage all aspects of the delivery.
- Developing and managing strong relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally to deliver significant value.
- Creating and maintaining project plans.
- Managing and delivering large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, reviewing and challenging the output produced by the team.
- Contributing to continuous development of methods and tools, thought leadership and internal propositions.
- Training and coaching team members.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Previous experience supporting complex, international ERP programmes
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills
- Highly analytical, with strong attention to detail and a passion for delivering high quality outputs
- Experience working with reporting and tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Clarity, Confluence) is advantageous
- Excellent planning and organization skills with the confidence and capability to propose and develop solutions to gaps in the PMO framework
- Effective and flexible communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work positively and sensitively alongside internal stakeholders and Vendors
- Significant experience in project management and related project processes, project methodologies (PMBOK, Prince2, Agile, Lean/Six Sigma), Project governance and stakeholder management
- Team building and pragmatic problem solving skills with local, international and multicultural staff
- Understand of the importance of managing Risks and Issues and ability to accurately capture these and support driving them to closure.
- Understanding of SAP projects and program with experience of how PMO is run and can bring fresh insights into the team to help us drive continuous improvement as the program develops.
- French Language would be an advantage
Reference no: 103496