Logistics Project Manager

The role holder is responsible for monitoring the progress of various existing and on-going projects for the relevant Business Unit/Department, ensuring that they are completed as per desired quality and within desired timelines. The role holder ensures liaising with internal and external teams to identify opportunities for new projects and devise plans and strategy to leverage the same. The role holder is also responsible for all the research and development activities for the relevant department.

Responsibilities

• Directs the articulation of an integrated project management plan, based on the prescribed specifications and projects design, ensuring balance between the immediate needs and the long-term goals of the relevant department
• Manages the research and development activities in GMG to ensure that all the systems and applications reflect the most recent technology and are as per the business requirements
• Manages the entire life cycle of the project (from inception to go-live) and ensures relevant resources are available and utilized to produce the planned deliverables, in line with agreed timelines and budgets
• Establishes and gains agreement on the definition and scope of the project and associated methodologies with the various stakeholders to facilitate the planning and execution of schedules that are consistent with overall project objectives
• Ensures the project implementations are in line with international quality standards and pre-defined guidelines -Ensures tracking of the key milestones of the projects addresses problems and prepares project reports for the senior management
• Act as central point of communication for core team members, management, business partners and other stakeholders on program, to facilitate effective delivery of projects -Manages on-going communication on large projects’ status, and escalates issues to senior management as required
• Formulates guidelines for aligning project governance and ensures project management standards are followed in all the projects undertaken by the Business Unit/Department
• Oversees, centralizes and coordinates the management of projects documentations and procedures
• Prepares project RFPs to ensure compliance with the relevant industry standards -Plans risk responses and reports projects’ risk to management
• Implements risk response plans, track identified risks, monitor residual risks, identify new risks, and evaluate risk process effectiveness throughout the project
• Analyzes the importance of managing change from a project management perspective, and guides the development of relevant processes and tools, in order to ensure effective change management Integrates change management and project management, in order to create a unified approach to implementing change from technical and business perspectives
• Leads process improvement initiatives within project scope to enhance operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Supply Chain or relevant field
• Master's degree in business administration/Logistics/ Supply Chain is preferred
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with at-least 4 years in managing large-scale projects in an independent or PMO capacity, preferably within a retail organization