Position Summary:
A Senior Project Manager (SPM) in Alshaya is accountable for overseeing, planning and driving multiple large scale, complex and multifaceted Projects. Typically but not limited to individual projects costing 5 to 10 million USD. A SPM is responsible for all elements of a project from inception through to completion and sign off with the customer. The role will include budgeting, hiring of team members and sourcing suppliers and partners when necessary. The projects will be both cross departmental and have dependancies on other programs and projects therefore require a high level of collaboration, and management skills to deliver within the constraint of scope, quality, time and budget. The role necessitates strong interpersonal & leadership skills, with high level of experience working at an executive level and coordinating with other senior-level multifunctional stakeholders to achieve an outcome
Key Responsibilities:
- Used to working with internal Procurement or Vendor Management Office and experience with contractual negotiation.
- Used to protecting the Project scope and have an understanding of Change Control with the ability to articulate technical changes at Change Control Board (or CAB)
- Based on the Business Case establishing & maintaining the Project OpEx and CapEx Budgets.
- Familiarity of working with the internal Business Analysts and external consultants to define Business & Functional Requirements, ensuring the RTM is in place.
- Management of multiple 3rd Party vendors including onshore and offshore resource
- Work with all internal IT Teams to ensure strategies are defined and agreed
- Direct and guide project team members to ensure compliance to governance standards and procedures for managing projects
- Set up a clear communication cadence and alignment of the Project to the Alshaya Project standard Governance structure.
- Responsible for project mobilization including obtaining commitment of project team resources with departmental Resource Managers.
- Define and monitor key dependencies both in and out of the project ensuring that the critical path of the project is fully understood.
- Direct Line Management of a small number of Project Managers & Leads typically 1-3 with responsibility for setting objectives, performance appraisals and personal development plans.
- Defining clear roles & responsibilities RACI
- Reviewing the initial Business Case and High level Plan with the Business Relationship Manager to ensure clear handoff & acceptance via Stagegate.
- Used to working with Change Management to ensure both As-Is & To-Be Processes are put in place, Training, Organizational Modelling, Adoption & Benefits Realization plan are established where applicable.
Required Education & Experience:
- Knowledge of any of the following Technologies Oracle RMS, ReSA, SIM, EPM, X-Store, Non Merch Procurement, ORCE & Responsys
- Campaign Execution , Chatbot, Service and Social Clouds, MW SOA, MFT IAM, OIM and Automic. Blue Yonder Planning solution including Allocation, AP, AO, EP, D&F, Strategic Pricing, Promos, Markdowns and CATMAN as well as ESO for Food. IBM Sterling
- Order Management, BI & A, Comarch Loyalty, Yext, HPS.
- Proficient in the use of MS Project
- Project Management Certification in Prince 2, PMP or Similar
- Used to managing Project Teams of cross functional resources
- Managed Project Budgets between US$ 5-10m+
- Educated to degree level or equivalent working experience.
- Worked within multiple retailers, hospitality or FMCG
- Will have used SharePoint for management of the Project Document Repository and use of SharePoint lists
- Skilled in using MS Office Products such as PowerPoint, Excel,
- Managed a significant number of projects through the End to End Project lifecycle
- Knowledge of JIRA would be helpful
- Will have between 5-10+ years experience of Project Management
- Certificated in relevant systems where applicable
- A good knowledge of Waterfall, Hybrid and Agile methodologies
- Whilst typically managing at Head of Dept. Level, will have had interaction at CxO Level
- Delivered multi-country deployments Globally