Overview
Position Title: Senior Project Manager
Company: Greggs
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Job Description:
Reporting to the Business Planning and Change Manager, the role will be responsible for planning and delivering agreed changes to the business safely and within agreed constraints.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the execution of project and delivery plans to achieve defined objectives within agreed constraints.
- Manage project and team resources (external and internal) and continually improving team dynamics and working practices to help ensure success.
- Ensure all necessary controls (e.g. risks, issues, changes, dependencies and assumptions) are visible and effectively managed.
- Ensure communication to key project stakeholders throughout the duration of the project or initiative ensuring a high level of confidence is earned and maintained.
- Agree resource requirements and timescales with the business, manage the assignment and release of resources during the course of projects and deliveries and remove team obstacles.
- Ensure that the delivery adheres to the established governance and quality standards (e.g. artefacts, team events and meetings, reporting, quality measures).
Requirements:
- Experience of successfully delivering business and technology change using practical examples to describe challenges and successes.
- Experience of working in agile, product backlog environments and traditional project delivery methodologies and ability to demonstrate an understanding of the differences and pros and cons of these approaches.
- Excellent communication, presentational, written and organisational skills.
- Experience of working in dynamic business environments, and managing delivery of multiple initiatives.
- The ability to think logically, overcome problems and interpret and present key statistical data in a way that can be understood by different stakeholder groups.
- The ability to self-starter with a proactive approach to daily tasks, overcoming problems and maintaining momentum.
- Digital literacy, being proficient in standard office tools used in change management (e.g. Excel, Word, Vision, PPT) and more creative use of other tools/technology to help communicate or facilitate.
- Experience of working in or knowledge of food-to-go or similar retail business environment.
- Experience of working in foot-to-go or similar retail business environment.
About Greggs
Greggs is the UK’s leading bakery food-on-the-go retailer with over 1,800 shops nationwide and serving over six million customers a week.