Royal Mail Jobs – Project Manager In London

Overview

Position Title: Project Manager
Company: Royal mail
Location:  London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description:

We’re passionate about harnessing technology to deliver the best possible results for customers. The business is in an exciting period of transformation and making the most of resources and innovation is fundamental to evolving and delivering the best possible service across the UK and Europe. With a proud history of serving the UK, Royal Mail has been able to thrive by continuously adapting and adopting the most advanced tech. At Royal Mail Technology, we’re playing an exciting role in taking the next steps.

Responsibilities:

• Comply with data and cyber security obligations
• Identify, manage and report on project dependencies, milestones, critical path, and potential risks and issues, ensuring that appropriate and effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans exist, are agreed and acted upon
• Establish and operate Financial control (budgets £1m-£10m)
• Agree span of control (management by exception/ tolerances)
• Establish and maintain unambiguous controls (Constraints; Actions; Risks; Dependencies; Deliverables; D
• ecisions; Issues; Change; Assumptions)
• Escalate as and when necessary via the established governance routes
• Establish project meeting cadence
• Agree formal project gateways and corporate governance obligations
• Adherence to project reporting processes
• Create an agreed schedule baseline and manage under strict change control
• Ensure proactive management of stakeholders and project communications
• Ensure Business Change activities are in place appropriate to the Project(s).

Requirements:

• Experience in collaborating with Engineering functions in Supply Chain organisations
• Experience managing Matrix Teams – responsible for up to 20 matrix reports in addition to supplier resources
• Proven experience proactively managing risks, issues – project management accountabilities.
• Communication – High degree of competence in verbal and written communication to a broad audience; and excellent, clear and succinct written communication
• Good delegation and negotiation skills
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Financial management
• Demonstrate resilience, persistence, flexibility and drive to maintain progress and resolve issues
• Commercial acumen and value driven supplier management
• Effective stakeholder and people management