IT Project Manager

About Us:

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people. Dyson launched in the US in 2002, and since then operations have grown exponentially. Our US headquarters is based in Chicago's Fulton Market neighborhood. We also have employees working in field sales, our service centers, and in our growing number of Dyson Demo Store’s across the country. 

We're committed to our campus culture and want to have people collaborating, developing, and learning from each other. By having everyone on campus together, we have been able to nurture a fantastic social and dynamic environment.  

At Dyson, we demand the highest standard of performance from the technologies we engineer. Our people expect the same from the technology that supports them. We are a community that appreciates and advocates better engineering. A community of pioneers.  Dyson IT are mid-transformation. Our aim, to create robust IT architecture, to manage data effectively and efficiently and continue to grow our world-class team. A team who is strategic, enabling business acceleration, growth and success.

Americas IT team provides support to regional stakeholders as well as global markets. The role forms a vital link between eCommerce, Supply Chain and relevant down steam systems.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering medium complexity projects up to £3m in value at pace, providing sound decision making and calm leadership under pressure.
• Building high performing project teams using matrix management to ensure that the team is effective in achieving project goals and securing business buy-in through effective stakeholder engagement and communications.
• Accelerating the wider Dyson business by upholding the highest standards of project management. As an active and engaged member of the PPM community of practice you will be expected to identify and realize opportunities for continuous improvement in our ways of working.
• Ensuring excellent financial stewardship by delivering predictable and reliable cost estimating, management and forecasting.
• Embedding quality across all aspects of the project to deliver successfully with no major issues at go live; this includes effective management of change, risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Delivering positive feedback from key Dyson stakeholders by ensuring that projects are appropriately structured, well planned and executed.
• Seeking out opportunities for innovation by identifying and leveraging delivery accelerators that improve the speed of delivery and/or the cost to serve.
• Developing your career at Dyson by creating and owning your professional and personal development plan, using the PPM talent development framework to baseline your capabilities and identify stretch targets to build your career.
• Good understanding in application of core business processes, project governance methods and operational/development framework.
• Analytical mind-set, attention to detail and ability to challenge assumptions and convention; striving to get to the root cause of a problem, always looking for new and better ways of doing things.
• Proactive problem-solver, able to navigate complex processes and systems.
• Self-motivated and able to resolve conflict, inspire teams, mentor peers, and promote PM principles and best practice.
• Strong leadership skills, able to form complex and high performing teams quickly.
• Excellent team-working skills.
• Able to handle demanding workload, manage multiple large projects at once and deliver on schedule.
• Experience of managing project progress by constantly tracking deliverables and finding ways to identify and remove /mitigate and communicate risks.
• Ability to manage and present budgetary projections.

Person specification / Core Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and cultural awareness, able to build productive working relationships within the team and across the business and influence others.
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills including the ability to convey complex messages effectively to a diverse range of audiences and deliver difficult messages whist maintaining buy-in
• Strong leadership abilities 
• Powerful change agent who champions change and inspires trust and change adoption
• Solid matrix management skills with the proven ability to deliver through others
• Keen problem solver with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Able to operate and thrive with high levels of ambiguity and the resilience to “bounce-back”
• Self-motivated with drive and determination to deliver to a high standard at pace in a complex environm