Project Manager

None; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Project Manager for a technology project, responsible for end-to-end management. The role demands high-level communication, leadership skills, and a collaborative approach. The company values a diverse workforce and is committed to fostering a positive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus Potential

25 Days Annual Leave

Pension

Qualifications

• Demonstrated resilience and persistence in maintaining project progress.
• High competence in verbal and written communication.
• Able to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Manage project delivery against cost, timescale, and quality parameters.
• Define project scope and engage stakeholders effectively.
• Ensure compliance with data and cyber security obligations.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Negotiation

Problem Solving

Financial Management

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Job reference number325151

Project Manager

Competitive Salary, bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and pension

Full time

Permanent

Royal Mail Sheffield

Sheffield or London Office x3 days a week

PROJECT MANAGER

Royal Mail are looking for a Project Manager for End-to-end accountability for the management and delivery for a technology related project within agreed parameters of cost, timescale and quality.

Establishing a project

• Scope: Defining and agreeing project scope using established tools and techniques.
• Stakeholders: Identifying and engaging all project stakeholders and preparing a stakeholder matrix and developing and implementing an appropriate communication plan.
• Investment: Supporting or leading in the securing of investment by providing time, resource and cost estimates together with risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions.
• Resources: Defining a project team and sourcing.
• Mobilisation: Production and distribution of all key mobilisation artefacts such as RACI matrices, Project Initiation Documents, collaboration tools, running project initiation workshops, implementing governance.
• Agile Project Management: Understanding of SAFe principles, delivering continuous value, and have experience managing project through the lifecycle from initiation through to closure.

Plan/Monitor/Control

• Leadership of the Project team to deliver against agreed metrics for time, cost and quality.
• Manage the project in line with an agreed methodology.
• Act as Systems Integrator, bringing together all internal and external supplier deliverables to ensure delivery of a complete end-to-end solution that is assured against the current agreed specification.
• Create an agreed schedule baseline and maintain under strict change control.
• Establish and maintain unambiguous controls (Constraints; Actions; Risks; Dependencies; Deliverables; Decisions; Issues; Change; Assumptions).
• Establish and operate Financial control.
• Ongoing proactive management of stakeholders and project communication.
• Agree span of control (management by exception/ tolerances).
• Establish project meeting cadence.
• Establish project reporting processes.
• Agree formal project gateways and corporate governance obligations.
• Comply with data and cyber security obligations.
• Ensure Business Change activities are in place appropriate to the Project(s).
• Escalate as and when necessary via the established governance.

Key Skills Needed:

• High level of common sense demonstrable through practical experience.
• Communication – High degree of competence in verbal and written communication to a broad audience; and excellent, clear and succinct written communication.
• Demonstrate resilience, persistence and drive to maintain progress and resolve issues.
• Good delegation and negotiation skills.
• Able to maintain a sense of perspective and remain calm in challenging situations.
• Effective stakeholder and people management.
• Commercial acumen and value driven supplier management.
• Financial management.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Solution focussed and highly collaborative.
• Customer centric focus to deliver value efficiently.
• Good technical knowledge and experience to support project team in issue resolution and escalation if need be.
• Innovative and creative thinker; good problem solver.

About Us

At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’, universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here:https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

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