Project Manager in Horley

To plan and manage strategic, companywide projects, ensuring goals and objectives have been clearly defined, each project has a plan for delivery, and they are completed in a timely fashion. To ensure projects are appropriately resourced and owners are held accountable for achieving their tasks. To effectively manage delivery and stakeholder expectations by monitoring progress and ensuring the status of a project is effectively communicated across the company. To support in coordinating the governance of these projects by using a consistent approach, utilising best practices and helping to develop processes and knowledge of project management across the company.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• To assist in running and maintaining strategic projects within the Programme Office.
• Facilitate and support programme planning, including development of robust project plans, identification of key milestones, timeframes, dependencies, critical paths, assumptions, ensuring planning standards are followed.
• Use a methodology for project management which serves the purpose of the company and encourages the buy in of senior stakeholders.
• Help the PMO team identify, assess and monitor risks to mitigate impacts to the delivery plan.
• Support junior project managers in delivering and managing projects as is required, ultimately assisting team members in developing their own project management skillset in order to build a stronger and more effective PMO function for the company.
• Being responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of the Programmes Management Office, to continue to develop and maintain the programmes environment in order to support each individual programme run within it.
• Maintain professional relationships with all stakeholders, and clearly articulate what tasks are required of them and how their objectives impact a delivery programme.
• Confidently lead and motivate project teams including both internal and external stakeholder groups where required.
• Support the programme teams in preparing proposition documentation and monthly programme reports to present to Leadership.
• Ensure governance documentation is complete and maintained throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Ability to identify and manage risks to ensure project remains on track and mitigations in place.
• Team leader meetings, wider company updates and Exec summary reports and monitor all participation programmes to ensure adherence to all methods and standards.
• Report on Lessons Learnt and ensure completion of Project Closure reporting to enable the organisation to improve project success in future.
• Support and advise Programme Owners and Programme Coordinators on the Programmes delivery model, reports and tools.
• Participate in regular training / learning activities to maintain and develop skills and knowledge.
• Adhere to all Stark policies, procedures and working practices.
• Ensure the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do; use work equipment provided safely and co-operate with managers to provide safe systems of work.
• Any other reasonable duties as required.

The Project Manager must have the necessary knowledge of the business and be able to take on the responsibilities associated with the role. The balance of skills required for the programme office often changes as each programme develops. The person with the skills to identify or define the programme may not necessarily be the right person to drive through its implementation.

Behaviours

• Consistently professional, confident, and calm even in challenging situations.
• Demonstrate a customer focused approach; and an expectation of others to do likewise.
• Supportive and helpful team player with a flexible and positive attitude.
• Proactively share knowledge, skills, and experience with others to increase team performance.
• Deliver a high volume of quality work on time.
• Strive to get things right first time.
• Strive to meet objectives and improve performance.
• Highly organised with good attention to detail.
• Prioritise work well.
• Work effectively and responsibly without close supervision.
• Reflect and evaluate own performance in order to identify areas for improvement; maintain a learning and development plan.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

• Articulate, professional and clear verbal communication skills.
• Present information clearly and in an engaging way.
• Good interpersonal and rapport-building abilities.
• Precise and appropriate written communication skills.
• Good telephone manner.
• Good listener; can understand the needs of customers and colleagues.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Keep up to date with advances in business area, new methods and ways of working.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Confident and accurate use of departmental computer systems/databases.

Vendor Management Responsibilities (Only if relevant to job role)

• Be aware of and seek authorisations where needed.
• Follow Stark’s Vendor Management processes and procedures when engaging new vendors.
• Be responsible for cost management, approval of invoices, enabling technical discussions, auditing and sourcing required/expired documentation, complaint management, and training.
• Collection and circulation of any defined performance metrics (KPIs) aligned to commercially agreed SLA’s between parties.
• Performance management for underperforming vendors and communicating proposals to terminate and/or withdraw the procurement of goods and services for a given vendor.

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