Junior Project Manager

Projects are managed centrally through the Group Business Transformation Team, who pull in resources for project delivery from the Group IT Projects Team. The teams deliver a mixture of projects including IT integrations of acquired businesses, strategic IT projects and various other requests from across the Group.

The team is governed by a Portfolio Management Office (PMO) and made up of Project Delivery personnel. The team deliver a mixture of projects including post-acquisition integrations of new business and strategic group projects.

As a Junior Project Manager, you will work closely with the Transformation Project Team to both autonomously deliver and support others with the execution of a diverse range of projects in accordance with timelines, budgets and quality as set out by the Chief Transformation Officer and Group Exec team.

Key Responsibilities

• Working in a fast-paced transformation team to plan, develop, and execute identified workstreams and projects.
• Supporting Project Managers with Priority Projects and managing smaller, less complex projects
• Support with the coordination of pipelines, sprints and resources across multiple teams and disciplines to ensure progress and delivery is aligned to set timelines.
• Ensure that projects meet or exceed the required levels of cost, performance and are delivering against agreed KPIs.
• Report and communicate status, delivery and performance of project deliverables against plan.
• Implement a robust risk and issue management methodology, escalating via established governance structures to ensure true visibility and prompt mitigation activity where required.
• Support and maintain communications between the transformation, delivery and operations teams as well as the wider group stakeholders and third parties.
• Support the Delivery team to continuously improve methodology, approach, practice and delivery where required.

Key Skills are Experience Required

• Trained (or working towards a Certification) in Project Management, for example Prince2 or PMP.
• Demonstrable experience of initiating and/or delivering successful projects or process improvements
• Understanding of business process and technology change.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities, multitask and meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Collaborative team player.
• Build trusting relationships with all stakeholders.
• Work with colleagues across the Group, including international time zones and local culture.
• Continuous improvement mindset, naturally inquisitive and eager to learn and develop.
• A tenacious approach to problem solving and reaching the desired outcome.