project manager Oldbury, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Job description
DPD UK is a member of Geopost who are a market leader in parcel delivery and e-commerce solutions, providing a broad range of delivery and innovative services for customers worldwide. DPD UK has a turnover of over £2 billion and our aim is to be the most sustainable delivery company in the UK. At DPD UK we also aim to deliver the best service, use the best technology and recruit and retain the best people in the industry.
DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.
Job Role
Our Portfolio Manager is looking for an experienced and tenacious Project Manager to join their highly skilled team.
As a Project Manager you will be accountable for the day-to-day management of projects, changes and fixes including security and platform upgrades, under the remit of the Portfolio Manager. You will be the go-to individual to oversee all change, in-line with established processes and using an accepted project management framework.
You will lead your project team to ensure their projects are delivered on time, to quality and within budget. You will also ensure that any type of change relating to the project, product or service is managed and communicated and that your projects comply with departmental standards.
Key Tasks/Areas of Responsibility
- Identifying and managing risks and issues throughout the life of a change ensuring escalation to the Portfolio Manager where appropriate
- Ensure all change follows the agreed methodology and adopting robust governance standards including compliance with data security regulations
- Working with stakeholders to define expected benefits and to create plans for their realisation
- Ensuring all necessary change applicable to the project is prioritised, planned and communicated in line with the agreed portfolio priorities
- Liaising with the Portfolio Manager to ensure the required resource is scheduled in line with the agreed portfolio priorities
- Creating, issuing and gaining sign-off on all project documentation and plans
- Managing and reporting progress to the business against the baselined project as well as key milestones for all change planned, linked to the project
- Delivering expected outputs to high-quality standards
- Engaging, communicating and presenting to SLT members on all changes for a project
- Managing external suppliers to ensure they deliver within contractual obligations
- Overseeing any allocated budget to deliver change associated to the project within the portfolio, ensuring the correct process for quoting, invoicing & approval of spend are followed
- Capturing and reporting on lessons learnt
Key Measures of Performance
- Achieve a minimum of 95% of project methodology compliance
- Budget & financial management of spend against a project, change or fix
- Delivery of projects/changes to agreed milestones and to budget
- Mitigation and management of key project Risks & Issues
- Robust project plans, with measurable checkpoints, effectively communicated
About You
To be considered for this role you must have extensive and demonstrable experience as a Project Manager ideally within a large scale, geographically dispersed multi-layered organisation. You will be Prince 2 or equivalent qualified and have an excellent understanding of project management methodologies. You will also be able to evidence successfully leading and inspiring your teams to deliver exceptional results.
- You will be a confident communicator/presenter with the skills to lead and manage your project teams to ensure their projects are delivered on time, to quality and within budget
- A person capable of decisive and effective decision-making, in a time pressured environment
- A passion for building and motivating high-performing teams
- Have the ability to effect and successfully implement change.
- Someone that really enjoys resolving problems and demonstrates high levels of resilience, self-motivation and flexibility.
- Demonstrate the core values of DPD DNA – Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Hard Work and Accountability
- Full clean driving licence with a flexible approach towards travel
Additional Information
About our benefits
Alongside an excellent basic salary, company car or cash alternative, attractive bonus scheme, based on individual and company targets and Private Medical Insurance we recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to all our customers.
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Free onsite parking for all employees
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off your weekly supermarket shop
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- Free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses
Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today
