Project Delivery Specialist

Liberty Global; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in the UK is looking for a Project Delivery Specialist. This role focuses on delivering cyclical projects and requires strong stakeholder management and project leadership abilities. Candidates should have experience in HR Shared Services, excellent attention to detail, and be proficient in Microsoft tools. The position offers competitive salary, generous annual leave, and access to wellbeing benefits like critical illness cover and dental insurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more

Wellbeing and mental health benefits

Matched pension contributions up to 10%

Access to learning platform

Qualifications

• Experience leading on projects in an HR Shared Services environment.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Deliver People Services and Cyclical Projects such as Annual Compensation review.
• Manage risks, issues, and ensure effective processes for project results.
• Provide continuity of project delivery through knowledge sharing.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Project management

Attention to detail

Organisation skills

Tools

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Outlook

Job description

We’re looking for a Project Delivery Specialist to join us in Bradford. We are open to this being on an FTC or permanent basis.

This role is responsible for delivering cyclical activity on behalf of Virgin Media O2.

The Project Delivery team are accountable for a number of areas including delivery of cyclical people projects, cyclical payroll activity and Business Readiness activity for People Services within LSS.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver People Services and People Cyclical Projects (Annual Compensation review, benefits, Payroll Year End).
• Analyse the cyclical project requirements and define project deliverables to meet the benefits identified.
• Manage all aspects of risks, issues and contingency.
• Ensures systems and processes are efficient and effective in relation to the project results.
• Ensure readiness of People Services so activities effectively transition to BAU within the operating model.
• Respond to in-depth / specialist customer queries and data issues relating directly to the project activity.
• Work towards being part of a robust self-managed team by initiating and improving collaborative ways of working such as team problem solving on critical issue and project challenges, project prioritisation and cover, cross team development and support.
• Provision of continuity of project delivery through cross skilling, knowledge sharing and individual and team ownership of development plans.
• Support Project Administration delivery of their service levels and quality standards of project communications and their pro‑active auditing, maintenance and MI analysis of the People Portal.

We tend to look for people with :

Essential

• Experience of leading on projects, preferably in a HR Shared Services environment, encompassing a collaboration with HR systems and technology
• Experience with one or more of the following : HR, Benefits and Reward, Payroll, Change Management, Business Readiness.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong organisation skills, with the ability to work within SLAs and conflicting priorities
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project

Desirable

• Prince 2 or Project management equivalent qualification
• HR experience
• Broad understanding of external HR / Shared Services developments and emerging best practice
• Skills in process design methodology is beneficial

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our car benefit scheme
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• The chance to join an innovative, fast‑paced and passionate team