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.