Senior Project Manager – E-Commerce

Our client is a Singapore-based multinational technology company that designs and manufactures household appliances such as vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, hand dryers, bladeless fans, heaters, hair dryers, and lights. They are focused on solving problems using their technology and ingenuity. It employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while they are growing fast, they want to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing their products as well as how they work, how they sell, and how they support their owners. They constantly drive empowerment, development, and equality in an inclusive environment for their people around the world.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering through a team - integrated application and software development solutions and programmes for a specific platform or sub-category of technical products, impacting a defined area.

Responsibilities: 

• Leading the development of Business Cases and their approval via project leads and SMEs.
• Building high performing teams with strong business and content knowledge and flexibility to work across business areas.
• Upholding high standards of project management and mastering IT PPM methodologies.
• Identifying and realising opportunities for continuous improvement in our ways of working.
• Ensuring excellent financial stewardship by delivering predictable and reliable cost estimating, management, and forecasting.
• Understanding business case drivers and collaborating with business stakeholders to deliver a scalable and future-proofed solution.
• Developing a flexible delivery approach tailored to the business challenge for each project.
• Embedding quality across all aspects of the project to deliver successfully.
• Seeking out opportunities for innovation by identifying and leveraging delivery accelerators that improve the speed of delivery and/or the cost to serve.

About you

• You’ll have extensive experience of IT project management, ideally gained in strategic, complex projects for large organisations.
• You’ll ideally have experience in E-Commerce also, and a track record in successfully delivering complex £multi-million transformation projects in large, organisations.

Requirements: 

• In-depth knowledge and experience of all stages of the project and programme lifecycle, including development of business cases, mobilisation of projects.
• Knowledge of multiple project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid) backed up with experience of applying them successfully in practice.
• Experience of delivering complex projects with budgets between £1m - £5m.
• Experience of successfully leading large multi-disciplinary project teams across a range of locations and including 3rd parties.
• Proven ability to manage project budgets effectively and experience of financial reporting.
• Strong leadership abilities including structured and strategic thinking and critical analysis.
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills, within and across teams to a range of audiences including C-suite.
• Credible change agent who champions change and inspires trust and change adoption.
• Solid matrix management skills with the proven ability to deliver through others.
• Keen problem solver with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with drive and determination to deliver to a high standard at pace in a complex environment.
• Able to thrive with high levels of ambiguity and resilience. In this role you can be based either at our state-of-the-art technology campus in Malmesbury, Wiltshire or our office in Bristol City Centre.

Benefits

• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Competitive pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection
• Private medical / Dental insurance
• Free bus (coach) travel to and from Malmsbury campus from Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, and Swindon
• Free on-site hair salon, sports centre, and gym
• Free lunch and (unlimited) hot drinks and fruits.. 

All of this and much more..

Reach me at my email louella.paul@whitecrowresearch.com