Junior Project Manager Leeds, England
Job description
Asda are looking for a Junior Project Manager to work on one of the largest retail programmes in the world (the Future programme). Within this, you will be working as part of the team on the Future Core programme, and you will be responsible for the delivery of small to medium sized IT projects within the Finance Workstream.
This is a chance to work for a business that can offer you great career potential and offer flexible working and great benefits. We put a lot of investment into our colleagues and are committed to ensuring that you will receive the relevant training and support to provide you with the opportunity to progress within one of the world's largest companies.
Your Role
- Creating and delivering project plans and prioritisation of project activity to meet the overall business project objectives
- Managing the project stage gates per the Asda project management best practice and the IT Lifecycle (Waterfall / Agile) methodologies
- Identifying and communicating project risks, concerns and issues and escalate to the Programme Manager
- Understanding, prioritising, and managing the changes to scope, timescales, costs, resourcing, and third parties
- Delivering products in a serviceable state including hand-over to service support teams
- Ensuring compliance with local and global IT standards
- Preparing and delivering regular project communications to all key stakeholders
- Maintaining the project risk log, ensuring appropriate actions are in place to manage the risks per their priority
- Tracking and managing the project budget in line with PMO guidance
- Co-ordinating key project resources
About You
- Proven track record of managing a small team of cross-functional resources
- Proven record of interpersonal and communication skills, managing risk, and the appropriate escalation
- Proven track record of project delivery using a project methodology and lifecycle (Desirable)
- Project management qualification (Desirable)
Hybrid Working
Work Where it Works. Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to complete your daily tasks where you'll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. We would love to talk to you about this.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
If you have any questions, then please email [email protected]
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