Matalan Job – Project Manager in Leeds, UK

Overview

Position Title:Senior Project Manager

Company:Matalan

Location:Leeds, UK

Job Description:

As a Senior Project Manager your primary purpose will be to work with cross functional teams to manage the delivery of major initiatives or multiple medium sized initiatives within a varied and fast paced retail environment. These initiatives may involve changes to multiple IT systems; the introduction, removal or modification to technical architecture; and / or significant business change

Responsibilities:

• 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 development 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.

Requirements:

• Proven track record in a similar role
• Significant project / programme management experience including planning, reporting, budgetary and issue/risk management
• Flexible and pragmatic in working practices
• Strong 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
• Substantial commercial acumen and financial planning
• 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
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills both with internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.