Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Liverpool – L33 7SZ
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
The Role:
As an Project Manager your primary purpose will be to work with cross functional teams to manage the delivery of small to medium sized initiatives within a varied and fast paced retail environment.
Reporting into the central change function but working closely with IT and business functions you will deliver multiple initiatives, working with multiple remote 3rd parties and with both internal and external senior stakeholders. You will operate within a hybrid framework that encompasses both waterfall and agile tools and techniques and will be able to both pragmatically apply them as required.
You will have experience of leading the delivery of software and IT change and a solid appreciation for how change impacts the business and / or end customer. Working with the business change team to ensure a seamless delivery to the end user / customer.
The delivery capability at Matalan is evolving, as is working within a hybrid (waterfall / agile) environment. This way of working is relatively new and still taking shape within the business and part of the role will be to help mature hybrid ways of working.
Key Duties:
- Responsible for delivering initiatives within a hybrid delivery framework. Setting up the appropriate overarching approach / governance for each initiative
- Where required; working closely with the Product / Business Owner to support the Executive Owner in translating a strategy and vision to the delivery team and turning it in to operational tasks for the team
- Owns the organisation and facilitation of all planning related tasks.
- Depending on the project this may be for example driving the planning process to develop high level plans for the whole project, and mid-level and detailed plans for each stage/work stream, identifying activities, tasks, dependencies and milestones or this could be providing transparency on product and sprint backlogs, supporting the develop of a product roadmap alongside sprint and release planning
- Encourage and lead project teams to ensure that framework processes are followed helping them to adopt processes that work best for the team whilst driving delivery.
- Responsible for identifying and recommending improvements and assist in changes to working practices
- Collaborate and support the Product / Business Owner to manage internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution. For example, prioritisation of initiatives within the team’s backlog
- Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout in order to respond to emerging requirements
- Bring together cross functional teams acting as the link between them
- Feed into the wider project portfolio governance through:
- Transparent and active risk and issue management
- Dependency management
- Clear and succinct status reporting
- Milestone and roadmap reporting
About You:
- Proven track record in a similar role
- Flexible and pragmatic in working practices
- Good working knowledge and have successfully applied a variety of delivery frameworks (eg waterfall and agile) and best practices
- Comfortable and confident managing hybrid project teams (waterfall and agile). Competent with both waterfall and agile ways of working and tools
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to handle difficult or sensitive situations and explain complex material in a simple and easy to digest fashion
- Good influencing and negotiation skills both with internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Senior Project Coordinator, IT Project Manager, Project Lead, Lead Project Manager will also be considered for this role.
