Senior Project Manager

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Position Purpose

In this role, you will oversee overall delivery responsibility for projects, where you will ensure the successful delivery of the Programme/Portfolio Strategy.

You will lead all aspects of multiple complex project within the Cyber/IT Security space, from end to end project management life cycle, ensuring projects are delivered within budget and aligned with internal standards and frameworks.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for the planning and leading the execution of the highly complex project/s, delivery of formal project/s milestones and the overall delivery plan, by leading multi-functional teams.
• Support the programme/portfolio team to be able to articulate and determine value drivers, outline the vision statement and the business case.
• Collaborate with the program/portfolio management team to ensure alignment of the project/s with the overall organizational strategy.
• Agree governance bodies to manage risks and make decisions. Responsible for defining a Sponsorship Group and preparation for and delivery of the monthly Steering Committee meetings. Responsible for the sharing of pre-read materials, and for sharing actions and decisions afterwards, which are also to be stored in a centralized location. Responsible for the management of closure of Steerco actions.
• Support architectural assessment.
• Support the tracking and managing of the dependencies on other projects and BAU work in the programme/portfolio that need to complete to meet the agreed targets, and/or the Targets.
• Agree delivery methodology (Agile, Waterfall, combination of both, etc).
• Accountable for the management of the execution of the change management strategy, including the definition and roll-out of training courses, the execution of the regular employee communications cadence and set-up and management of the change agent network.
• Responsible for managing Project/s progress, updates to Project/s plan & stakeholders’ engagement. Issue regular communications to the whole Project/s team (i.e. from the Sponsor down to the most junior person on the Project) summarizing progress and clarifying priorities of the Project/s.
• Participate in regular program/portfolio management meetings and provide updates on the progress of the project/s.
• Manage and report project/s budget and support the management of the full budget.
• Coordinate with other Senior Project managers to identify dependencies and manage interdependencies between Projects within the programme/portfolio.
• Support Programme/Portfolio Manager with the overall planning, preparation for change and transition of the solution to Operations. Responsible for closing activities related to portfolio management, financials management and resource management such as, ensuring Capex/Opex are accurate, releasing resources from the Project/s and formally closing the Project/s from the portfolio.       
• Manage hand-over of responsibility for the solution/business process to business-as-usual support.
• Ensure that Service Design is approved and handed over into BAU team.
• Responsible for ensuring the Objective and Vision have been achieved.
• Lead Lessons learned session during the programme to hand over to Produ