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IT Project Manager II Hatfield II Hybrid 2 days in the office

About Us:

Ocado Technology is putting the world’s grocery retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT.  We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

 

Of course, achieving this is no mean feat, and whilst we have ambitious strategies to grow our business, we need to match this in our capabilities to ensure the ongoing security of our sensitive data, our people, our customers, and our assets.  That’s where Ocado’s innovative Information Security team comes into play…

 

About the role:

At Ocado, IT’s mission is to provide the strategic direction, governance and delivery of the core IT services which enable Ocado group as a whole to deliver on its missions.

The Enterprise Applications IT Project Manager has responsibility for the delivery of technical projects in application delivery across Ocado Groups global IT service portfolio.

 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Manage multiple IT projects concurrently through the full project lifecycle.
• Create and maintain a complete set of project documents from initiation to closure, including those covering project scope, business case, reporting and deliverables 
• Coordinate all resources required to deliver projects (including 3rd parties) and act in a matrix management capacity.
• Manage and build key stakeholder relationships, both internal and external.
• Coordinate project inception - gather and analyse requirements, define and control scope, develop project plans.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, and implement effective solutions to meet project deadlines, objectives, and outcomes.
• Track progress of delivery against agreed targets. 
• Own associated project budgets. 
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements within each workstream.
• Construction of project budget requests and project change related to cost, timeline and deliverable quality.
• Oversight of required project change management activity.
• Definition of the project acceptance criteria and oversight of any required testing needed to demonstrate this has been met.
• Work closely with IT teams to ensure change is managed into ‘business as usual’ correctly and is set up for success.
• Regular reporting as required covering key project KPI’s.
• Seek and implement opportunities for process improvement and lessons learned to improve future project delivery performance and effectiveness.

You may be asked to perform tasks as required by management deemed as a reasonable request. This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the role, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of possible role responsibilities, tasks and duties and is subject to review. The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the job holder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties, as assigned, might form part of the job.

 

Experience

 

• Minimum 7 years in an IT project management role.
• Experience as a project manager of managing multiple Enterprise applications implementation and remediation projects (For example Workday or other ERP module implementation) across their career
• Experience with Saas and cloud applications as an IT PM
• Managing stakeholders and teams across multiple geographical regions.
• Experience presenting to Executive level steering committees as a PM.
• Demonstrable experience of handling cross project interdependencies 
• Able to demonstrate that they have managed multiple projects through the full project lifecycle.
• Experience of project reporting across roles, regions, stakeholders and workstreams
• Experience with workstream process improvements.

Skills

• Formal Project Management qualification - Prince2 Practitioner, full PMP or similar..
• Ability to work across technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Project planning and management/delivery of complex projects to timescales, including experience of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal i