Job Description
About the role
KDC are looking for a strong Project Manager who can come in and put structure in place for a portfolio of projects which are currently being run with nothing in place
Essentially, we are looking for someone who can help manage and support the project managers and introduce a strong structure to which they can start working towards - provide an overall programme view of the projects.
You will have excellent stakeholder experience and ideally will have some IT Programme Management experience.
You will not be accountable for the projects being complete, the business needs someone to come in and look at structuring the programme and putting things together to make it all work.
This position would suit someone who is an experienced PM looking for their next step or a Junior Manager who has done this kind of role previously but will still see this as an excellent opportunity to further their career.
The role is within Information Management as a supporting project manager. Reporting to the HO Information Management who has the end to end accountability for the information systems delivered across the UK Business.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute a program level view of all the IM & UK Toolchain projects, agile work package planning, reporting, and risk management, with support from financial controller finance reports, progress and deliveries.
Working a SAFe and Agile process. Must be able to bring multiple work packages and building up the overall project.
The successful person will be making sure communication between all departments is updated and aligned with each other and overall responsibility of delivering the project.
Most of project activity is between 2 sites
Key skill's
• Project planning and reporting
• Customer / stakeholder management
• Building multifunctional teams
• Project reporting, risk identification and mitigation, financial planning management and reporting
• Managing multi company / supplier teams
Successful candidate will ideally come from an Engineering or manufacturing background and will have knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Information Systems Degree and/or Project Management Qualification is desirable