Programme Lead / Director United Kingdom
Job description
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Role: Programme Lead / Director
Located: Field Based / Remote
Package: Competitive salary plus excellent benefits
Flexibility - Happy to talk flexible, remote and hybrid working – flexibility on days/hours
Ricoh is a global technology business, where our ambition is to harness solutions to boost productivity, enable creativity and help people achieve a sense of fulfilment – all while driving innovation.
We are leading the way with an extensive portfolio of products & sophisticated end-to-end solutions that unleash teams’ potential through Digital Workplace solutions, that capture the full value of Cloud & Infrastructure, which create streamlined business processes, that detect, predict & prevent cyber-attacks and which enhance digital experience.
At Ricoh, we ensure that change is positive and that it sparks employee engagement, releases innovation, improves security and drives sustainability.
Ricoh UK Core Values
What you will be doing
Provide effective leadership and programme management and governance across a wide range of projects. Accountable for monitoring project and programme finances, risks and issues, quality management, customer engagement, stakeholder management within both Ricoh and customers. Continuously seeking to build on revenue and gross profit within the allocated Business Unit by working with the Business Development Director and Business Development team.
- Provide strategic direction and leadership for all projects within the business unit.
- Be accountable for delivery against agreed financial and service targets.
- Record, report and manage the assigned project budgets effectively to ensure profitability of delivery.
- Ensure the most efficient utilisation across all projects within the business unit.
- Ensure the quality of service delivered is consistent with the Programme Office Framework and methodology which ensures documentation is produced to the required quality and standards.
- Ensure projects remain within the original scope or that changes are clearly identified and the commercial impact and risks are clearly assessed to limit our liabilities and ensuring that the accounts are profitable.
- Ensure the continued growth of the business unit by achieving sales targets
- Promote a culture of pro-activity, innovation, transparency, collaboration and flexibility in all aspects of project delivery
- Attract the right people to work across projects while developing and retaining talent.
- Maintain, review all service level agreements with the end client and lead quarterly business reviews with the end client to ensure service and delivery targets are met.
You will ideally have
- Management and Delivery of large technical Programmes/ Portfolio’s
- A wide range of experience of delivery in multiple industry sectors of varied project sizes and complexity
- Knowledge of current Telecoms and IT technologies and solutions
- Programme level financial control and reporting
- Stakeholder management to Senior Leadership Team Level
- Ability to work to a structured method but also to be flexible where required
- Internal reporting to Senior Leadership Team Level
- Management and direction of large teams of differing skill sets and roles
In return for your commitment, you can expect
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic, strong bonus and company benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join a global company
Working towards a sustainable future
Our approach to sustainability is to pursue a balance of People, Planet and Prosperity and we’ve incorporated a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives in our overall business strategy, tackling seven priority issues including Zero-Carbon Society, Circular Economy, Open Innovation and Diversity & Inclusion. We’re also accelerating our energy-saving initiatives and use of renewable energy, as well as providing digital services for new ways of working.
We are an equal opportunities employer
Ricoh UK is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
