Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager Location: Newtown & Shropshire site (Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite)Salary: £70k - £78k plus a range of benefits **Please note, we can only accept CV'S from candidates who are residing in the UK with the relevant right to work ** Our client, who are global market leaders in their industry and located in Mid Wales, are looking for a senior project manager to join their team.The senior project manager role will own high-priority, change management IT and/or operations projects. This role requires an excellent communication style, influencing skills, with strong commercial acumen and be able to lead multi-disciplinary teams across boundaries to ensure a successful handover of projects to the operational teams The Senior Project Manager role -
- Build a cross functional team and engage with all stakeholders
- Develop business case proposals and justification including a financial analysis comparing the current to future state
- Prepare any required Budget Requests and manage them though the approval process
- Track and report progress against agreed project timeline and budget
- Develop and maintain scope, resource plans, project documentation and quality of deliverables
- Identify and onboard any necessary external partners and suppliers
- Supported by the cross functional team, lead each initiative throughout the project utilising the standard Project Management processes
- Accountability for all aspects of the project over the entire project life
- Interfacing with all areas affected by the project, including end users, distributors, and vendors
- Ensuring adherence to quality standards and reviewing project deliverables
- Deliver a smooth handover to the relevant operational teams
- Managing communications with all stakeholders, including status reports to the Senior Leadership Team
- Minimum of five years of Project Management experience in a relevant field (IT, Manufacturing, Supply Chain)
- Ability to build and manage relationships with key business stakeholders.
- Ideally experience with one or more of the following - New Product Development, Manufacturing / Factory projects, ERP & Ecommerce projects
- Change management project experience
- Experience of working in a PMO / Programme function
- Educated to degree level, ideally in a STEM field such as Electrical, IT, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience
- Recognised project management qualification such as PMP, APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner or ability to work to structured project management methodologies