Contract position
Minimum requirements:
- Project Management degree or equivalent with a moderate level of related experience
- Additional preference for experience in Merch Planning applications/systems like RPAS and JDA.
- Preference is for experience in Retail
- Demonstrated moderate level project management experience preferably in a multinational professional services environment
- Proven client engagement experience
- Demonstrated understanding of the project life cycle
- Demonstrated competency in project change management
- Proven experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
Knowledge Skills and Attributes:
- Ability to establish strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external clients
- Excellent clientcentricity skills and ability to work at client sites
- Ability to manage customer satisfaction commitment and expectations to high service levels and manage escalations adequately
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent teambuilding skills and ability to work in highpressure environments
- Ability to manage urgent and complex tasks simultaneously
- Good business acumen and commercial skills
- Passionate strong initiative selfdriven with a commitment to succeed
- Good influencing ability whilst taking a collaborative approach
- Decisive with good attention to detail ability
- Ability to promote project services to both internal stakeholders and external clients
- Competent in project change management
Responsibilities:
- Lead and direct concurrent standard or complex projects and in the case of programme management ensure the management of multiple related projects directed towards a common objective
- Engage with stakeholders to deliver projects from original concept through final implementation
- Ensure that the project/programme delivers an assold solution remains within the baselined budget and is delivered on time whilst maintaining quality criteria and client satisfaction
- Manage the delivery of the project/programme including rigorous scope control and change management
- Ensure client satisfaction and manage escalations acting as a single point of contact to the client
- Documentation and management of risks and issues
- Ensuring clear and concise communications to all stakeholders
- Provide presales support by working with sales teams to scope and cost a project or programme solution which includes the completion of a proposal.
- This may include Client presentations of delivery approach as part of a tender process.
- Identification of opportunities and influence the sale by conducting a business conversation with the client positioning company consulting and technical services offerings
- Coordinate activities of the project teams through task delegation resource assignment and programme management