Location: Maidenhead Salary/Rate:

Department: Programme/Project Management

• End to end delivery of business projects within the Sales & Marketing function within a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Define, manage and deliver allocated projects on time, to budget and specification.
• Ensure proactive communication and accurate reporting of project status to stakeholders.
• Motivate and manage virtual project teams to ensure delivery is on time and on budget.

What else it involves

• End to end responsibility and ownership for the definition, documentation and safe execution of complex projects, directing and motivating project team members & third party suppliers following Company led processes and procedures.
• Prepare and maintain realistic project, quality, and risk plans.
• Proactive communication to business owners & stakeholders.
• Monitor and control team performance against project plans
• Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated OPEX costs and all capital costs against the project budget.
• Works with Technology & Business teams to ensure business strategy and project requirements are understood, solution is fit for purpose, and where possible, alternate options to improve delivery timeframes or costs are evaluated. Makes recommendations/decisions on technical options as appropriate.
• Liaises with other managers within the business as necessary to drive project delivery; resolve delivery-impacting issues, escalate in a timely manner and manage stakeholder and programme management expectations for projects.
• Manage post implementation reviews by ensuring that own projects are formally closed, reviewed, and lessons learned are captured and actioned. Produce appropriate documentation to support these processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve business or project processes, and ways of delivery business performance objectives
• Management of third party suppliers responsible for project deliverables
• Lead cross-functional project teams; allocating and monitoring tasks to ensure effective delivery.

Must have:

• Demonstrable evidence of managing the full project lifecycle.
• Experience of managing projects in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Proficient in Project Management - Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation.
• Experience of defining and scoping project requirements
• Management of stakeholder expectations
• Exceptional communication skills – with an ability to bridge the gap between business and technology teams
• Hands on ability to manage and mitigate risk.
• Management of major changes in business processes to achieve optimization of benefits
• Great commercial awareness with the ability to make recommendations on delivery to time/cost/quality based on knowledge of desired outcomes/KPIs
• A degree or equivalent

Nice to have:

• A professional qualification in a project management discipline
• A background in Sales & Marketing / Contract / PAYG / Retention area.
• Experience in working with Business stakeholders

Please ensure that your CV reflects all the relevant experience prior to applying for this opportunity.

Send your CV to Luke Samaras Mob: 07769 572799 E-mail: luke@pss-europe.com