Hastus Implementation Project Manager F/M

Keolis; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled Project Manager to lead the implementation of HASTUS in Manchester. This role involves overseeing project management, budget steering, and change management as part of a two-year initiative to enhance operational efficiency. You will coordinate with various teams, manage training sessions, and ensure that the software meets the specific needs of the organization. If you are passionate about driving change and improving mobility solutions, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management, particularly in software implementation.
• Strong understanding of budget management and change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of HASTUS for scheduling and daily operations.
• Manage project schedules and budgets, ensuring timely delivery and quality.

Skills

Project Management

Budget Management

Change Management

Training Coordination

Data Collection

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Management or Related Field

Project Management Certification

Tools

HASTUS

GANTT Chart

GIRO Software

Job description

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Hastus Implementation Project Manager F/M

Exploitation

Pioneering shared mobility with operations in 13 countries, Keolis is a global leader in the shared mobility market, helping millions of people reach their destination every day. Keolis operates safe and accessible transport networks and offers personalized mobility solutions that contribute to regional cohesion. It resolutely places innovation and digitalization at the heart of its services to enhance the passenger experience. In response to the challenge of climate change, Keolis is also committed to environmentally responsible mobility solutions in order to reduce the carbon footprint of its activities.

Context

Keolis Amey Manchester plans to implement HASTUS on the Scheduling and Daily Operations modules. This project is intended to be implemented in 2 years and will require the presence of an experienced project manager to successfully implement and launch the tool, parameterized and adapted to the KAM specific operating environment. Supported by the local operational and IT teams, the project manager will have to consider not only the functional and training aspects of the implementation project carried out with the software provider GIRO, but will also have to consider change management, business processes, integration and HR aspects.

The position is located in Manchester and the contract is for 2 years.

Missions

Project management and budget steering:

• As GIRO's main contact, he/she will organize and manage the HASTUS implementation project and the associated comitology with GIRO.
• He/she will manage the weekly meetings with GIRO and the central team. Normally, the GIRO project manager prepares this weekly meeting, but the KAM project manager must have prepared this meeting and be a full participant.
• He/she will organize, prepare and lead the weekly project committee, as well as the monthly steering committees within Keolis, to involve all the CODIR members involved and the main players by department.
• He/she will manage the budget with GIRO and internally with Keolis, in particular the development days provided for in the contract.
• He/she will manage the project schedule using the detailed GANT.

Functional specifications:

• He/she will organize, coordinate and ensure the quality of business specification writing sessions by GIRO with KAM experts in Scheduling, Rostering and Daily Operations.
• Thoroughly validate the specifications for the 3 main phases of deployment with experts and decision-makers when it comes to making a structuring choice.

HASTUS training:

• He/she will organize and attend HASTUS training sessions.
• Upstream, he will challenge GIRO on the quality of GIRO's training courses so that they are adapted to KAM's context and needs.
• Afterwards, he/she will follow up on these training sessions to ensure that trainees play with the tool the very next day, and never leave it.
• He will be the Super Administrator of KAM's HASTUS, or will find the right profile available to fill this important and technical role.

Project integration:

• Organize and drive forward the Data and Interfaces projects.
• He/she will anticipate the data collection required to start work in HASTUS from legacy tools, nomenclature issues and data repositories.
• He/she will not be the Data and Interfaces expert, which is a separate technical job: as with the business experts, he/she will need to make IT experts available.

Deployment:

• He/she will prepare the deployment phases, by organizing DailyCrew training courses for scheduling end-users, and by training drivers on SelfService.
• It will anticipate the Knowledge Management project, which may be set up after the implementation and deployment phases, but which will be built up during the implementation/deployment phases and made available to users once GIRO's project support has been completed.

Change management:

• He/she will manage and animate the visualization room of the deployment project, the main performance and progress indicators of the project.
• Coordinate with HR the management of existing profiles and new hires, in order to guarantee the necessary expertise (e.g. to write interfaces, to use the CrewOpt and MinBus algorithmic optimizers, or even RosterOpt or PlanCrew), as some employees are not willing or able to be HASTUS experts.